Showing posts with label kids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kids. Show all posts

06 March 2012

LIttle Things to Sew: Play Town









This months sew-along; Play Town.  In all honesty, I wasn't overly excited about it.  But I decided to do it anyway.  It turned out to be fun.  Glad I did it.  And as Silas was playing with them, and questioning me about them, he informed me that he needed about a dozen more of them, so that some REAL playing could happen.  Leave it to a 4 almost 5-year old.


The "shells" all sewn together except for the ends, waiting to be stuffed.


The pattern called for 4" wide foam, but I could only find 2" wide, so I doubled-up.


So two of each cut.  That was kind-a fun.  Used a serrated knife, sliced without any problems.

Stuffed them and sewed up the bottoms by hand, and wala.  House...


and car garage...


So I tried to do some cute ric-a-rac trim along the edge of the front roof, like hers, but as you can see, didn't really work out very well.  And I was feeling lazy, so I didn't unpick to fix it.  Oh well.  The kids like them, so that's what matters.


08 April 2009

perks

There ARE some perks to living in a small town. As I was droping the kids off this morning for school, one of the school counselors was helping the kids out of the van. Phebe jumped out, grabbed his hand and said, "Mr. Conrad, guess what..." and he quickly interupted, "I know, I know... tomorrow is your birthday!"

Gotta love it when others remember your important days without being reminded, especially when you're about to turn 7.