September Challenge Days 7 & 8

Once again, I post one of them a day late...but the other is the day of, so not too bad. Actually, by the time this is done, it will be the next day (which is the way I assumed each post would be).

Day 7 had a bit of a cheat to it because I prepped the embroidery piece quite some time ago. It's a design by Urban Threads...my fave :) And I started it during the craft show. But since I am sick, I am cutting myself some slack. I hope you will too *bats eyelashes*.


The color isn't so great on this one, but the detail came out good. The "net" on the front of the dirigible was fun because I wanted it to look kind of loose, so I was able to get "sloppy" on purpose :)

Day 8 was from a tutorial in that notebook I showed you last time. Sort of. I always change things up a bit. This tute was used more as a check to see if I was making it correctly...as in the way my mind saw it before I ever saw how it's supposed to be made. The tute itself was written very nicely (you can find it here on Making It Fun/Star Dust Shoes along with many other great tutes). It is a simple soft basket using quilted batting for the innards. I, however, did not have any quilted batting on hand, so I kind of quilted some soft interfacing onto the exterior fabric. I do like how it turned out. Now to figure out what to do with it...keep or give?

....check out Peacocks and Dragonflies to see where she is on her OADCC...
...she's the one that got me into this :)