Saturday, December 26, 2009

Last bits of Christmas crafting...

I have two last little projects to share from Christmas. The first is a Christmas wreath. I found all the pieces at Spotlight, which sadly is going out of business and closing down in one week. :( Everything was 70% off, so I decided to go for it. We've just had a tiny little wreath for the last few years, and I really wanted a bigger one. When I got home, I just hot glued the baubles and small silver pinecones on. I guess you can't really see the pinecones very well, but they are there. Looking at it now, though, it doesn't seem complete. What is it missing? Should I have done 6 sets of baubles instead of 5? Probably. Hmmmm... Oh well. Maya said it was "perfect", so I'll just leave it as is. :)



The next project was the girls' Christmas jammies! I already made the jammie pants once before, so this time it was much easier. Except that I was in such a hurry to get them done that somehow my measurements were off again. Maya's fit well, although they were about an inch shorter than I had planned, and also the length from the waist to the crotch was too short. Definitely miscalculated that. She didn't mind it, though, and loved them. Zoe's on the other hand, were a tad too long, and the legs were a tad too narrow. Again, not a big deal and she loved them, too. I didn't make the shirts, (don't know how, yet), but I did cut out the candy canes and sew them on to the shirts just using a zig zag stitch around the edges. I think I sewed around them about 3 or 4 times to make sure they wouldn't come off, lol.

2 comments:

Paige said...

Cute! I did jammies too--HH's are not as baggy in the rear as he'd like...but I couldn't take any measurements or he'd know what I was up to.

Jane said...

Love the candy cane jammies!