Baby Gifts, Hems, Hems, Hems, & Mending

The most fun projects of the month were certainly the baby gifts. I made this dress for my expected niece.

I finished the sloth lovies and I made some whales.
 

I used velvet for their bellies. I am really excited to see how the babies like the velvet. I am thinking the texture will be intriguing to them.

It has been a long time since I had made a big whale. (Blog post about big whales) It was fun to work with an old familiar pattern. I stuff these with beads in addition to polyfil. The weight of the beads make this whale more interesting.

On to the hemming projects. These were not the fun projects of the month.

We had these brand new khaki pants for our boys. The only problem was that they had cuffs. What's the problem with cuffs? We are old fuddy duddies that can't wear anything resembling modern fashion fads. So my options were to donate the pants or hem them. And since my boys needed church pants I hemmed them.

The pants were a size larger than my boys needed. Taking off a couple inches means they can wear the pants now instead of next year.

A lady from church had two skirts for me to hem. I have finished one. I plan to finish the second one this week.

I have done hand mending projects this month. 

Starting with this coat.

This pile is next in the queue.

Two dresses with rips.

And a hole in my husband's jeans.

I am looking forward to a fun project next month. Stay tuned to hear about it towards the end of March!