For Christmas I made lots of shopping bags from beautiful furnishing samples and gave them to family and friends.
One piece of cloth was far too good to use for a bag or cushion cover so this is what it is now.
It was Spouse's birthday yesterday and he's delighted with the result - he had no idea it was being made :-)
Mary
Very nice! All those buttons! I am impressed.
Liz
Mary, It's beautiful! I can see why he loves it. Juno
Weskits do need a lot of buttons ... But, you see, I really AM getting prepared for The Cruise :-)
Still haven't sewn the buttons on my own!
Just ordered ten - yes, TEN - shirts for him. Then I can throw out all thos incredibly thin, holey and often collarless shirts from the 70s I'm fed up of ironing :-)
Mary
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Great job, Mary! BTW, I found a picture of him without the weskit, wearing a hat:
Mary
I thought he had just combed it and put some hair gel on.
LOL!
When he combs his beard it's even bushier. He came down last night with handlebar moustaches, asking me to make some moustache wax.
In your dreams!
Hair gel? Our sons would say that polish would be more appropriate for his pate :-)
Mary
Children these days have no respect, do they? Not like when we... uh..... never mind.
Great work, Mary!! Fits him wonderfully well. And you're right, that fabric was way too good for shopping bags. :)
Sharon
My dad was bald but I never breathed on his pate and pretended to polish it with my sleeve ... I just didn't have the imagination.
Children (all ours in their forties!) certainly have more imagination thatn we - or at least I - had.
But certainly less respect :-)
And theirs have even less which fills me with glee when our children complain about them :-))))))))) They deserve what's coming to them!
Mary
It's even better 'in the flesh', the pattern is woven, not printed. It made for difficulties but it was worth it!
Mary
There is nothing quite like the warm and fuzzy feeling one gets when one's children experience _all_ the ins and outs of parenthood -- especially those little things that they did to drive their parents crazy. *Bwaaahaahaaahaa*
LOL!
Mary
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