It's Official

I have the most adorable niece and nephews (plural now!!) EVER. I keep pictures of them handy in order to have a sudden dose of cheer when I need it. Here are the feet of the most recent addition to the unbearable cuteness (as of the end of September):


I can not stop staring at all his pictures. I can not wait to meet him in person.

I made a thing a while back before he was born, and recently worked up the courage to send it. For some reason, after looking at a project long enough when I'm working on it, I lose all sense of whether it's stupid or not. Ah well. It's fine, though I always feel like I could make it a million times better next time. It's a bird mobile with the birds sewn out of felt. Here are the first three:



And for some reason I didn't take any pictures of the fourth when it was done, but here's its little unstuffed body.



I made a leaf kind of thing for the middle of it.



The crossbars were made out of some dowel stained with coffee and sealed, and I left the ribbons uncut so they could be adjusted for height and balance, then trimmed.

I was kind of hoping for a fifties sort of feel for the whole thing, which I'm not sure I achieved. I love the felt toys of that era. I think in that regard, maybe the little green bird worked out best? H.A. has asked me what the names of the birds are, so she can tell them to the Tiny. Hmm... Anyone have any ideas? I kind of think they'd be names along the lines of what you'd find in Beatrix Potter books, or some-such.

It was fun to break out the sewing machine again. I'm looking forward to having a permanent setup for it. Now to work on Christmas ideas...