Man, getting gifts done this year has been a constant battle! I spent all of Saturday, a day I really wanted to make a bunch of gifts for the family, working on getting printers set up so that the daughter and husband could make some gifts. After rebooting networks, finding and replacing ink cartridges, getting print heads aligned and cleaned and everything else, the day was pretty much shot. Sunday, my son hadn't slept Saturday night, so I was not functioning so well, but I managed to get basics done, like housework. So, being super productive and getting a bunch of gifts made hasn't really happened.
Bright side, I did find time to quickly get a gift finished for the daughter in the middle of all of the chaos, although it wasn't really a hard gift to do, so let's catalog that anyway!
A while back, I found a good deal on a couple of pretty slip covers for cheap and they have sat in my closet for months. One of the main things my daughter asked for Christmas early this year was some new throw pillows as the ones I made her in the past are really on their last legs (like one of the pillows I made for her the actual material is starting to develop holes...usually a good indication that the pillow is at the end of its life cycle). I did my best to mend her current throw pillows and told her I'd aim to get her new ones for Christmas. So, when I saw these pillow covers, I had to get them for her and make her some replacement throw pillows.
The pictures really don't do them justice. The pillows have a pretty graduated pattern of purple to them that fade out into a really light purple grey. It would have been better as pink (since that is the daughter's favorite color), but I was willing to settle on the color since it was so pretty.
So, I took some leftover unbleached muslin that I had from another project and some stuffing/filling I had and was able to make two pillow forms to fit the pillow covers in no time flat. The pillow forms aren't perfect, but they are going to spend their lives stuffed into a pillow cover, so I was perfectly content with that *laugh*. I couldn't really make the pictures pretty before taking the photos of the finished pillows, sorry to say, as I was in a tremendous hurry to stuff said pillows into a big box and get it wrapped before the daughter saw what I was doing, which was harder than I thought it was going to be.
So, two gifts down for the year. I really don't know if I'll be able to do much more, honestly, as my husband came down with a cold last night and went down hard. He's pretty miserable. So, I'm not sure how much I'm going to get done in the gift department when I'm just trying to keep the son from going into my bedroom and waking my husband up.
So, two gifts down for this year. Here's hoping I can get a few more done before the big day.
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