crafty imaginings
Here is a list of great crafty ideas I came up with during the hour or so I was laying in bed with Miri trying to get her to go to sleep. AKA: pretending to sleep (so she’d get bored and settle down) while she poked me in the face.
- something with red, pink, and blue - I don’t know what but that color combo really makes sense to me right now. not girly pink and powder blue but sort of a strong pink and medium blue.
- a quilt or some kind of patchwork using a white with red polka dots fabric with natural or gray linen
- a color sampler in cross stitch - squares - could do several of these with both rainbow palette colors and different “color stories” (I ran across that term on a design blog and suddenly fell in love with that idea, a color story)
- making something with binding tape, I watched Amy’s tutorial today
- using either crossstitch or satin stitch to create a “white space” figure/silhouette
- embroidering Miri’s artwork onto something for her
- embroidering Avery’s alien picture that my mom has on a bulletin board onto a bag or something for him
- pillowcase dresses for Miri, from vintage pillowcases and grosgrain ribbon, I bet I could even handstitch these and embellish them with a little embroidery
- looking back through my sketchbooks and finding old artwork to embroider. Especially pictures of the cats.
Bedtime is very creative. I have to really concentrate in order to continue to pretend to be asleep while M says and does hilarious things…I have to make up stories (tonight: a not-so faithful retelling of the Princess and the Pea, and a story about a commuter train who gets turned into a person for a day by her fairy train godmother so she can go see the city and eat croissants in the park, and a story about a butterfly who flies in circles around a farm so many times she gets bored and…flies off to see another part of the farm)…and I have to often make up songs (which surprises me with my on-the-fly composing skills; all those years of teaching preschool music are lodged somewhere in my subconscious I guess).
PS - I love this fabric, especially in this colorway/color story.
PPS - I also love these two ribbons!! I need to find a use for them.