Today I finally finished a project I've been working on bit by bit since the middle of December. Placemats that were my Mom's Christmas present. She got to see the tops finished at Christmas time, but I wasn't able to complete them in time to send them home with her when my parents and sister left after Christmas. She did however help pick out the material for the back without really knowing what she was helping me choose. The result...perhaps the busiest projects I've ever made, and I love them!
Here are some pictures (the ones I promised to post Friday...yeah, I'm one of those people that I said I'd never be. The kind that promise pictures on a certain day and don't get to post them for various reasons) from the beginning of the design process to the finished product.
Can you tell which picture I took with tungsten lighting? Bleh. Oh, well. When I get most of my work done at night after LC is in bed tungsten is what I get to work with.
There are many reasons why they are all slightly different. The biggest one is that I loved too many of the fabric combinations. Also most of the fabrics came from fat quarters and there wasn't really enough fabric to make all 4 match. I could have done it, but once I thought about using all the combinations, I just had to do it :)
As I was finishing up the last part of the binding on the last place mat (can I tell you how good that felt!), LC insisted on sitting next to me on the couch and put his hand on my left arm. I tried to get a picture, but he moved. It was the funniest experience. Kind of like he was saying, "I'm here, Momma. You can make it. Don't forget about me being here, though."
Whineasaurus Rex has been gone for the past two days, and my sweet LC has returned. Last night, as we were out on a family date, the Nerd Father and I couldn't help but laugh at his antics. Half the time he was leaning across the table talking to the outside world, to the other diners, shouting a funny story at me. It was amazing. I was so worried he would slip because of the way he was standing on the bench in our booth that I had to have the Nerd Father sit next to him and I sat across the table (I'm a little bit of a worrier sometimes--heh,heh--so when it interferes with normal toddler development I let the Nerd Father take over. He's much more chill about most of life).
It was so much fun to be out as a family, and just enjoy spending time with each other. What a wonderful start to a most productive weekend. And what a relief to have finished those placemats. They look great, Mom, and I'll send them in the mail as soon as I can.
Have a great weekend!
I am impressed!
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