More stupid sock creatures

Well, I can’t stop making these things. I knew they would be addicting! Here are Eugenie Etouffee and Angus MacVicar, the latest in the Stupid Sock Creature crew.

Eugenie Etouffee is actually my favorite so far. She's so cute! These buttons were a pair I'd picked out at the last second (among about 30 pairs of buttons), thinking, maybe I can find a use for these? I think they fit her perfectly!

I used part of a kid's dress-up boa to put ribbons down her back, back, back... 🙂

Angus MacVicar is made from argyle socks. He's named after a guy a friend of mine went to high school with in Canada. Strangely, when I Googled the name Angus MacVicar, I found a poet from (where else?) Argyle!

A career in kimonos

A while back, I made a set of paper pieced kimonos for a friend of mine who is in the foreign service. She’s currently serving in Peru, and is heading for Japan very soon. I wanted to make something for her to celebrate the career she’s chosen, as it’s not always an easy one and I’m so very happy for her to have a job she truly loves. I hadn’t posted any pictures of it, becuase I wanted to give it to her first, but she was just here visiting for a vew days and I was able to at least show it to her (even though I still need to get it in a frame). Her reaction was priceless; she really loved it! You know how when you make something that is a surprise for someone else, and you just hope they will like it? I wasn’t sure how she would feel about it, honestly, but I had to really talk her into letting me frame it before she left with it! 😀

So here are a few pics. I can’t quite recall the magazine I found the pattern in (I know it’s called “Robes of Honor,” though), but will post that info when I find it again. I used tropical fabrics for the kimonos themselves, and called this “Kimonos from Peru to Japan.”

These are the kimonos sewn together in a row. The original pattern had them in a square, but I liked this layout better for framing. This is also without the border added.

A closeup of one of the kimonos.