What I’m Up To

Here’s part of the pile currently residing on my desk. My oldest daughter lost her second tooth, so now is the time to make her a tooth pillow. I got a reprieve last time because she wanted to save her tooth and show it to her grandma that lives in Alabama, and somewhere along the way the tiny thing was lost. But now it is crunch time.

I made one tooth pillow and now I’m making another with a different twist to it. Per request it must be a ballerina fairy. In the doing I’ve discovered some aesthetic things I want to change about the pattern I did for this a while back, like the mouth is too wide in my opinion.

The other thing is making two soft wraps for colored pencils and a drawing pad. This project was a Christmas gift for my girls that never got made, so now I’m doing my best to have it ready for Valentines. My oldest unfortunately discovered the pencils and pads left out by mistake and keeps saying pointedly “I wonder who that is for, Mama? Is it for me?” sigh. I don’t want to tell a lie, so I keep just ignoring her and making noncommittal noises.

I’ve seen the crayon rolls out there and love them, and adore the one in the book Last Minute Patchwork + Quilted Gifts, but I wanted to include a pad of paper, so now I’m making it up as I go along. Have you seen a pattern that accommodates a 6×9 inch pad of paper as well as pencils?

At least I get to use part of the 9 miles of bias tape I made a few months ago for them. I have a couple placemats I bought from Crate & Barrel’s outlet site a while ago that I meant to convert to summery pillows or maybe a purse. I’m thinking they go pretty well with the bias tape for the drawing wraps. Orrrrrrr maybe not, as I stare at the photo above. Perhaps a bit busy. Maybe I’ll still have 9 miles of bias tape after all.

(Postscript: About ten minutes after this post went live I received an e-mail from my friend ScrappinBethie with this link to EXACTLY the kind of wrap tutorial I need from Skip To My Lou. I musta pushed the easy button for that one.)