The jacket for my dgd is done! If ericah64 would email me, she had the winning suggestion. She wins her choice of either something from my quilting stash, or something from my yarn/knitting stash, I just need her information so I can send her her prize choice.
She suggested a Disney Princess [DP]. I love Mary Englebreit’s “Queen of Everything”, and have dubbed my grand daughter “The Princess of Quite Alot”. So the DP idea seemed appropriate. I couldn’t find any appliques locally, and wouldn’t be able to order any online and get them in the mail and get the jacket done by my deadline. The fabric I found with the differant DP’s on it were just too big for the jacket’s size, toddler size 3 {too big for her now unless worn on top of other layers of clothing}, so making my own appliques weren’t an option either. Well last friday evening when shopping at the Walmart Suppercenter I discovered that their DP was the exact same as at the local small tiny Walmart Express. However the helpful ladies pointed out that on the sales rack was some Tinker Bell {TB} fabric. Badda bing, badda boom, I got a 1/4yard of it.
There is a fullsized TB on each sleave, and two on the back yoke that face each other. There is two small TB’s, one on each pocket, on the front of the jacket. I used fusible web on the back of the TB’s then ironed them onto the jacket. I then stitched down the edges of the TB’s with some pink thread. I then painted, using some glow-in-the-dark pink acrylic paint, a thin line around the TB’s to seal the edges. I smeared some paint with my finger on the edges of the top pockets, then just at the openings of the lower pockets. I also put small dabs of the paint on top of each of the snaps that were left exposed. Jacket is done in plenty of time to be mailed next week for dgd to get for Valentine’s Day!
Gauntlettes Done!!!
Here is the finished gauntlettes. I pickedup four stitches on the center inside of each gauntlette and did a four stitch I cord, then I did a three needle bindoff to attach the cords at the center. This way the gauntlettes can be put inside dgd’s coat and even if she takes them off, they won’t get lost! I only wished I had enough of this Koolaide dyed yarn to make my dil a pair of gauntlettes to match!
MISC. STUFF
Early saturday morning I got a phone call from ds#1, unfortunately sometime during the night the batteries on the handset to the cordless phone had decided to die. As I listened to him leave a message on the answering machine, all I could do was cry and scream at the phone! DS#1 had arrived at the bus station in New York City. He tried all of his contact numbers and hadn’t been able to get ahold of anyone. He sounded upset, and all I could do was listen. I tried calling his cel phone number but kept getting a recording that the phone was out of service. This doubled my worry and upset! I had to call my mom, about another matter, last night and mentioned ds#1’s message. She said that he had called her house and spoke to my grandmother (who’s staying with them this month) and my Aunt that lives next door. It seems that ds and dil had decided to let their cell phones go while he is in NY. {It’s just too expencive to keep a Tennessee area code while in NY City!} Ds’s inlaws have their phone blocked from accepting calls from calling cards, so ds couldn’t get ahold of dil dirrectly. {He had to call dil’s aunt and have her go over and get dil so that he could call her.} Dil had made the arrangements for ds to stay at a nearby YMCA until he could get into the room threw the school on monday/tuesday, and ds needed the contact info. from her. Now if the boy would just call me back!
My upperback has been out for most of the last five days. I finally broke down yesturday and called the doctor and asked for a refill on my medication. DH doesn’t get paid until tomorrow, so my mom picked up my medicine and brought it to me earlier this evening. {We’ll pay her back friday morning when we go to her work-Walmart Supercenter-to do our grocery shopping.} So this is the first relatively low pain time that I have had for the last several days!
Well that’s about it for now.
