sew-n-so’s

I’ve been working on a little executioner and it is taking me longer than expected. So this sketch will have to count as week 15. Tonight I went to Cari’s art opening and caught up with some old friends. Sadly Cari wasn’t there, she must not have been happy with the labeless blank wine so she left a note saying she “ran to got some beer.” Check out her blog and all of Old Cari’s adventures. Sorry I missed you, Cari. The stuff was fo-fab. Here is my rendition of what went down… since you weren’t there…

baby me conversing with zygote me about how much we love old cari.

This past weekend Tad and I traveled to Seattle to visit my good friend (best) Jessica. Her new found love was having a bar-b-que to celebrate his up-coming open heart surgery. It should be a real blast. His name is Tim, and this will be his second time having open heart surgery… LUCKY. Anyway, you can go read all about his progress, here.

This was my first time meeting him and he seemed nice enough. But I definitely wish him the best of luck, because being horizontal and having people feed you, and then having to start from square one to recover back to normal isn’t fun at all. So this week’s project was for Tim. He is getting an aorta replacement, and he can’t miss out on the aorta fairy. I hear their payouts are huge.

So I made a little aorta pillow. To keep safe for when the aorta fairy shows up, with some cash, or hopefully an aorta that works.

By his smile, this guy knows more than he is letting on

Wipe that smirk off your face.

I think he just shhh-heart-ed.

Someone turned 41 today - NOT ME.

And that someone loves old stale bagels.

Happy Birthday, Matt.

This was a depressing week. One of the interesting things about this commitment to 52 projects is that normally moods or life happenings will make you set things aside and make excuses. But with the 52 projects there are no excuses.

This little guy is from a pattern by Theresa Levy. I picked this pattern because mostly my own creations are just two pieces of fabric sewn together, where this pattern makes more of a 3-d shape.  However, I used baby fleece which is a little bit unforgiving and doesn’t mold nicely when stuffed. I may give this pattern another try with different fabric.

This week I participated in my first plush swap. Since I opened a flickr account, I have discovered many interesting flickr groups. The needle flickr group put on a swap based on your favorite color. I sent in my color choice, and I received someone else’s color choice of sky blue.  So this little guy was packaged up on Monday and sent to his new home in Tennessee. I hope he gets to visit here.

ack I forgot something!

his kidneys!!! This poor fella will need dialysis…stat