Nearly seven months ago, a friend gave birth to adorable twins, just gorgeous. My friend is a bit of a crafter herself and she makes beautiful quilts. Between that and her numerous quilting friends, so I thought my friend is probably covered for baby quilts and the like. I know my friend had made some bunting for the babies' arrival, so that ruled out my back-up plan of personalised bunting flags (damn you!!)
So, what was I going to do? After a little while, a thought struck me - something appliqued! I was a little nervous about this as my friend does beautiful applique but I figured I would give it a go and if it went pear-shaped, I'd just try something else.
The fabric used for the applique was some
Saffron Craig fabric that I had purchased a few years ago but hadn't used yet.
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| Red Beetle Bugs fabric by Saffron Craig |
I decided to do a baby feet applique on soft bath towels, a different colour towel for each baby. I was pretty pleased with the end result, although doing the little toes was quite difficult. I thought I was being fancy by using a variegated silky embroidery thread for the stitching, but if I could do a do-over, I would use a straight colour next time.
I think my friend was happily surprised when I finally caught up with her this week and gave her the towels. And I got to cuddle her babies, win win!!!
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