Yesterday, my lovely nine year old son set me a challenge - to make something small very quickly and he would be timing me on his ipod stopwatch. Hey presto, 15 mins or so later and I had a bright little tissue holder for my summer bag. I've seen these on various blogs and always wanted to try one out, so this was my chance. In fairness most of the 15 minutes was spent choosing and cutting the fabric strips, not in the actual making up.
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| Sadly my time doesn't show up in this pic, but my son insists I include it! |
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| Pocket Tissue Holder |
The Update
Last night was class night and I made some progress on my Beach Huts Cushion.
It looks nice and tidy all trimmed off and squared up ready for adding the back. Doesn't it look cheery? The was a lot of quilting in this little cushion front and my bunting string looks slightly like it was caught in a gust of wind rather than hanging nicely on a calm summer's day, but I tried to smooth it out three times and it just seems that breeze was determined to blow!
The Promise
Just a few days ago I noticed my son eyeing up some of the JoAnn's fabrics that I received recently. He struck up a conversation and in the end I found myself promising to make him a new pencil case from the fqs he had chosen. Actually, I was delighted that he wanted me to make him something. Sometimes it feels so difficult to find things to make for boys - there are loads of little possibilities for girls but no so much for boys. Anyway, here is his new pencil case courtesy of me (and of course Terri's great tutorial) -
Hope he's happy when he sees it in the morning! Please note - promise kept!
Actually, all these little things and Agnes cushion are part of my attempt to clear a few things off my list before they become UFOs. I realised that life has been so crazy this last couple of months and as that looks set to continue I need to be careful not to commit to too many projects at one time or I will end up with the world's largest UFO list! So, in an effort to keep myself on track I'm keeping a wee note of current projects and what I hope to achieve in a given month. Then at the end of the month I have something to review and see how I did - hopefully, this will also keep my WIPs from becoming UFOs.
Cool. I like that your son timed you. I would still be dithering and the girls would have wandered off, fed up! Love the pencil case. And LOVE your beach huts. It is perfect! No other word for it. Simply perfect.
ReplyDeleteThat's a really fab pencil case! Mmmm, I didn't see your hexie quilt on the list of things still to do!!!! Jxo
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