Tilly's Play Mat, and a Big Bottomed Beaver

Before I even had time to show you the fabric I had piled up for my next project, it was finished! I definitely think I've caught the quilting bug. This is a little play mat for the baby:

The pattern was from Lotta's Simple Sewing for Baby, again, and really was just as simple as promised! One of these days, I'll learn to cut in a straight line, but until then, I'm enjoying the 'handmadeness' of it all!

A little pocket in one of the corners, for an emergency cloth, or a Wupert Wabbit:

And, I couldn't resist dressing Fatty McBeaver up in one of my cute-cute-completely-cute cloth nappies and having her model. Hopefully Tilly's teeth will come in a bit straighter than poor Beaver's!

Oh, and when I showed it to Justin, he pointed to one of the squares of my favourite spotty batik fabric, and said "Oh no, the colour got all messed up in the wash!"

Um... I guess the batik look isn't for everyone!

A New Wabbit

As Wodger Wabbit was such a success, I went ahead and sewed a pom-pomless version for new baby Tilly. This wabbit has a little bow tie, which is delightfully (and accidentally) wonky! I think I'll call him Wupert Wabbit.

Here he is with Bella:

And with Grendal, my mean, green sewing machine:

Wupert is just silly enough to make me smile after a very rough day. Well, him plus a hot cup of honey and lemon and a large Milky Way!

I've finally come down with something... yesterday it was a sore throat, and today it's a rather disgusting cough. All the tea in Texas hasn't done much for me, yet, but now that I've picked up some lemons, hopefully it'll start to go away.

Happily, I've got a stash of Asda cough drops from last summer... there's just something about the taste of British medicines! They're still not enjoyable, but they're familiar, and that feels nice right now!