I have’t disappeared – I’ve just been busy, as I’m sure everyone else has! Thanksgiving was a wonderful celebration. We enjoyed having all our kids and grandkids over for the feast along with a few extras. It’s always fun to have everyone around.
Since then, it’s been busy getting gifts wrapped, spending extra time with the grandkids (LOVE our babies!!!), finishing up last minute shopping, etc. I’m finished with that. Whew!!!
Our youngest daughter requested some pillows for her apartment, so we spent time looking through my rather extensive supply of embroidery designs and she found just what she wanted. They are such pretty designs! The pillows are simple – no piping or other cording decorations – just pretty embroidery done on red velveteen.
The reindeer design comes from Bernina and is called Elegance Entwined. The Believe design comes from Embroitique.
This weekend I decided to enjoy another simple sewing project, so I pulled out my Children’s Corner “Lucy” pattern – this is a tried and true pattern and always looks sweet on the little girls. I was trying to match some tights that were in my stash of little girl tights. What happens next will make you laugh! The tights all packaged up (you’ll have to imagine the cardboard package surrounding the tights) looked like this:
So I envisioned large polka dots and selected my embroidery designs with that in mind. Many, many polka dots were embroidered!!! Then it was time to photograph the completed sister jumpers, so I thought it would be fun to show the tights underneath the jumper. Imagine my surprise when they ended up looking like this!
Clearly, they are more like polka dot stripes. The huge polka dots that I was so excited about will be hidden underneath the dress. LOL! The moral of this story is – pull the tights out of the packaging to get the full picture and avoid any surprises! Sadly, I only had tights for the larger dress, but I’m sure that something suitable will be found for the smaller one.
The embroidery designs from these jumpers came from a variety of places. The embroidery on the chest of the smaller jumper comes from Bunnycup and is called Lots of Dots Font. The rick rack design on the chest of the larger jumper comes from Zippy DesignZ. The large polka dot appliqué circle design is from Lynnie Pinnie and the letter E inside the patch is Diva Dots Font from Five Star Fonts. It was so fun to put all these designs together to come up with the polka dot jumpers.
So, this was my weekend polka dot sewing. Nothing too exciting – just some fun sewing for the little girls. 
I hope you’ve been able to squeeze in some fun sewing in between all of your busy holiday events as well.
Kathy
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