Sammy needed a draw string bag for daycare to hold sheets etc. Mum’s sewing machine being broken, so she came up here and between packing for Bondi and polishing off my presentation, we whipped up the following bag. Once I’m back from webdu, I’ll put together something cooler. I’ll see if he likes it Wednesday when seeing us off at the airport.
I whipped these up quickly for a workmate who decided to use plastic bags as protectors.
For anyone who is wanting to make their own pair the final dimensions are 45cmx18cm. Add your seams and elastic casing as extra. I used 26cm of elastic.
I created the pattern for this little koala this afternoon. What it is for will be revealed in time.
I’ve done a bit of sewing and baking over the Christmas period.
These are the shortbread and fudge I made for pressies.
I also made a choc mint checkerboard cake and a white chocolate and raspberry checkerboard cake.
My SIL plays the bass clarinet and there was no ‘instrument’ hero shirts available so I thought I would make a patch to put on anything wanted. This little present took a lot of hours of work and tears and I still wasn’t fully happy with any version. We went through many disasters such as running out of thread, losing location, patterns corrupting to name a few. This one is actually the first one I did. Andrew did the artwork for it.
I also made a pair of thomas boxer shorts for my niece and some towels and hankies for my parent’s in law and again forgot pics in the rush.
They are complete before Christmas – just 
Samuel is now size 4!!! and is toilet training well so it was time to move from baby overalls into little boy overalls. We are off to see Santa tomorrow so I hope they fit.
Looking at the pictures, the left leg looks longer than the right. It isn’t noticible hanging but I might fix after their trial run tomorrow in case hems etc need to be adjusted anyway.
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