Sewed: Baby Hat
For my friend Bettina’s new baby (Luis) I made this itty bitty baby hat. I used a variation of one of the free hat patterns on Voor Nop (it’s also on the sidebar under “free patterns”). I added the little mushrooms out of brown and white felt by machine sewing them to the hat. It was far too small for Elliot so his stuffed bear had to pinch hit the modeling job. Both the fleece and brown rib knit were JoAnn purchases. Right now all their anti-pill fleece is 50% off. Score!
Nursery Watercolors
I don’t do much painting, but I think these turned out swimmingly.

These hang in the nursery over Elliot’s crib. The elephant is my least favorite and I keep thinking I’ll redo it one of these days. The giraffe is actually based on a design I made up in high school (it ended up on a Valentine’s card for my sister Kricket…the spots were hearts though) and has been regurgitated in one form or another for years, including a number of baby onesies that I stenciled with freezer paper:
For anyone who might be wondering, this sort of craftiness is the easiest thing in the world — sketch your stencil on freezer paper, cut it out with an exacto knife (the one pictured had…
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