February 23 2012
Filed under 52 in 52, Finished Projects 2012, General
Over the last few weeks I have been feeling unwell – first vomiting and then a suspected kidney infection. Now I think I am final on the mend but taking things slowly. As a result I have mainly spend the last few weeks in bed reading away from the Interweb. (Have I missed anything?)
Obviously I am now way behind on my making 52 things in 52 weeks AND my letter writing. However before I feel ill I did make this little Valentine’s Day garland to hang in our bedroom. If I could I would decorate our house for every major holiday, at the moment I tend to go mad for Christmas and Halloween – which is also my birthday so I don’t have birthday decorations just scary ones, we also have a few football decorations for Jason’s birthday – I need to add a few more this year.
Making this garland was pretty simple I printed the words in Word (Arial Black at 200pts) to use as a template and the felt was a purchased from a Felt Mix Kit on eBay of Pinks and Reds. I cut out two of each letter to filled them with a little stuffing and then hand stitched them with embroidery thread. The little opening I used for stuffing was then sewn shut and attached to the ribbon.
In at attempt to catch up on my “making 52 things in 52 weeks” I figured I could bake a lot! However our oven is broken – so no baking for me! Secretly I am happy, our oven obviously was on it’s last legs and things were taking a lot longer to cook in fact there was a lot of guestimation on baking times. It does mean I will have to bake a lot in the next month to catch up.
