June 11-12, 2011 Weekend

First of all I want to thank each one of you who commented and gave me your opinions on what you would use for a closure on my baby jacket from Friday’s post. You all had some really good ideas. I want to tell you that when Rosina (RJ) commented and told me that she thought a tab closure would be cute; I couldn’t quite picture it, so I asked if she could draw me a picture. She went out of her way and made a crocheted tab and brought it to work for me to see exactly what she was talking about.  (now that’s a true friend)

I took her idea and Tamarafied it and placed a small button on the left side and sewed it through both thicknesses & sewed a larger button to use as the closure. I just the love the way it looks.

I liked it so much that I used the same idea on this stripey little sweater, except I chose to only use one large button for the closure on this one. Thank you so much Rosina for helping me out with the closure dilemma.

On Saturday we had the officer’s meeting Susie brought all the fixings for her yummy turkey curry sandwiches and I made a homemade tomato basil soup. I had a surprise for Susie, I knew she had wanted to make a little sweater for her doll like I had done for my doll, but she had been very busy making gifts for people.

Susie is always doing something nice for others (especially me) and I wanted to do something nice for her, so I gave her the little pink sweater and booties that I had made.  And this is a picture of her doll in the sweater, and it looks like it was made just for her. I love when this happens.

When Steph arrived we had our short meeting, then I couldn’t stand it any longer I wanted to show them my newly cleaned craft room. (since both of them had seen it at its worst) As we were looking through some of my finished creations, I ran onto this orange sweater that I had embellished quite some time ago. I cut the band off of the bottom of the sweater and off of the sleeves, then I made a ruched band with a small crocheted ruffle along the bottom of the band, then I crocheted the band to the bottom of the sweater and then crocheted ruffles on each sleeve to match the bottom of the band. Steph is always doing nice things for other people too and again, especially me. I told Steph that I would really like for her to have the sweater if she wanted it, and she said “yes, I would love to have it.”

It fit her like it was made just for her and the fun thing about it is that she really loves the color “orange”. I love it when that happens. I know each of you probably already know this about me, but I love to give my creations away to people who will appreciate and cherish them.

Saturday afternoon I sorted some of my buttons and those little plastic baskets came in handy. I have placed the different colors into baggies for now and am waiting for just the right container to put each of them in.

Saturday evening I decided to go and get a sewing pattern to make my doll some clothes. I ended up with 2 and love that Hobby Lobby marks their sewing patterns 40% off the retail price. I had been thinking about what Joshua said, “Momma I can’t believe you are making clothes to dress your doll?” I thought about this hard and long and finally I remembered back when my daughter, Jennifer was young, my Mom decided that she was going to make doll clothes for each of her granddaughters. At the time she had only 3, so it wasn’t so hard, but she made each one of them sets of clothes for one of each of the girls’ dolls. I remember how excited Jennifer was when she received the clothes for her doll and how my Mom seemed to enjoy that. That’s the same feeling I get when I see my Megan play with my doll and see how she loves to change her clothes. I just know that she will have so much fun dressing up my doll when she comes over to play.

Sunday was spent cutting out doll clothes (2 dresses, 2 pairs of pants, 1 pair of bloomers, 2 sunsuits, and 2 nightgowns), cooking, and helping my dear hubby search for another one of my dolls that I received when I was around 4 or 5.

He searched, cleaned, sorted, and threw away things in the garage all day. Still no sign of the doll, but there’s always next weekend. (Ha! Ha!) I did find this stool in the garage, that I am definitely going to have to make a crocheted cover for. I was wondering what I was going to use to sit on at my sewing machine, since I moved the sewing machine into Joshua’s room and put it on a card table. The table sits really low, but this little stool is going to work perfect. I managed to finish 2 pairs of pants and a pair of bloomers in between helping my dear hubby decide what to throw away, what to keep and what to save for a garage sale. I feel very blessed to have such a good husband who will go to such lengths just to find a treasured doll of mine for me, my good friends that live here and the ones in blogland that do so much for me; I do appreciate all of you. I would love to hear what you’re up to and how your weekend went.