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SO…here’s the finished soaker set…on a very wiggly Miss Mazie.
She’s hard to catch sitting still these days!
The soaker is basically a big triangle that you fold in on itself, then seam a little, then it’s all done. I also add a crochet chain tie. Here’s how it looks before it’s all stitched up:
(I think I took that photo at night.)
So things around here are going along ok. We’re not up to much new as a family…nate’s still working at the museums and I’m staying home. But I still feel like we’re just SO BUSY. It’s deadline time again, so lots of projects to finish up by the end of August / early September. Trying to get those done and in the mail. I just sent the supply list from Glam Knits to Knit Happens, so that they’ll be ready for the workshop.
We signed Mazie up “Water Babies” lessons at Gym Magic. She goes every Saturday at 9:30 am. I took her over to the country club pool the other day to meet up with her friend Sylvie, and she was such a natural in the water. I think she’ll really like her class. I’m glad I chose Saturdays, so that Nate can go with us. Actually, Saturday was the only day left…there are a LOT of Water Babies in las Cruces, I guess.
Yesterday, some of my mom-friends and I got together and helped one of the moms make some little stuffed cloth birds from spoolsewing.com for her baby’s baptism party. The fabric she used is a really pretty coordinating group of prints by Anna Maria Horner. I used the same fabric to make these hats for the girls:
They’re reversible, so one side (what the pattern calls for as lining) is this kitzchy New York print and the other side is the boutique stuff.
I tried out some of the embroidery stitches on my new machine, and I think they came out pretty well! I had to enlarge the pattern for Mazie’s hat, and then reduce it for Sylvie (I had my modified templates with me, but not the pattern.) Both hats are way too big, so I threaded a length of yarn through the ribbon trim and gathered the hat a little bit. As the girls grow, this can be cut and then new yarn added and tied to the correct size. The hats are completely reversible, while the pattern isn’t…go me!
I did both hats in an evening, they were so easy! (This is a rather heavily modified version of Simplicity 9784
Here’s one on my sleeping model:
Sorry so many pics today, I guess that’s what you get when I don’t post for a while!! 
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2 Responses to “Finished soaker set!”
Awww she’s precious! And so are the handknits and hand sewns!
I love all your baby sewing! And Mazie is getting so big. Can’t wait to see you in DC!