A busy Time of Year

I haven't been in my studio for several weeks.  We have been traveling.  Attending to business and visiting with my husband's Mother and helping our daughter out after she had a medical procedure.

As soon as we returned I started working on this jacket for our granddaughter.  Sydney, age eight, was born in the wrong century.  She is not the typical eight year old as far as TV and video games are concerned.  She loves to create and have things created for her.

Since she is still wearing the hat and knitted cape that I gave her about four years ago I decided it was time for new duds.    I purchased the yarn for the hat on our trip and knitted in the car.  The hat was finished when we got home.  I also purchased the sweatshirt on the trip.  I started cutting the squares and rectangles out yesterday after  baking all morning.  Not too successfully I might add.  

Fortunately the sewing went a little better and I had the squares glued and sewed down by the evening.  Today I put the binding around the sleeve and outside and it's done.  Off to the PO tomorrow.  It has to go all the way cross county but I'm hoping it will be there by Christmas.

I decided to link this post to http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/.  NinaMarie post every Friday and invites other quilt artist to share a post on Off the Wall Friday.  Take a look there are always interesting post there.

Granddaughter and Creativity

Our granddaughter, Sydney has been studying pioneer days at school.  They were suppose to put together clothing to wear to school as a student would have dressed during that time.  Sydney went into her Mom's closet and found a blouse and skirt.   With a little help from Mom, it was tucked and pined until it would stay up around her tiny waist.

She then found a crocheted place mat, that was made by my Mother, and used it as an apron.  The lunch pail (AKA sewing basket)  was a Christmas gift from Nana and Papa.  I sent the little bonnet to her when she was about two years old and living in Sydney Australia.  It's a little small now and was a little large then, but it works. 

Mom was brushing Sydney's hair and started to put a rubber band in the pony tail.  Sydney looked at her and said "Mom I don't think they had rubber bands back then."   Allison asked her what they would have used and she said "ribbon".  So ribbon it was.


I've written about Sydney in my blog before. She is one of those rare children who would rather go to her room and pretend or find little scraps of fabric to make a dress and bonnet for her bunny than watch TV or play games.  I find that very refreshing.