What I'm Sewing
Lately, I've been making rope baskets. Have you seen these? They are really so fun to make, and it's a quick and easy project to do, and you end up with lots of bowls. I'm finding that I use them for just about everything. Here's a few pictures of some I've made - The colored baskets have fabric strips wrapped around the rope, which is really braided clothesline rope, and the light colored ones have no fabric. I love the natural look of those plains ones. Click on the picture to make it bigger. Those are only a fraction of the bowls I've made, but I figured I'd gotten enough practice and it was time to make a BIG basket :) And here it is! If you compare the basket to my iron, you can see how big it is. The next thing I made was a 'bedding refresh' of my granddaughter's doll bed. It was a nice enough bed, but the bedding was awful. So, I made sheets (it didn't have sheets), pillows, a new canopy and blanket. The first picture is Before. ...