By Golly! I've Finished a Project, and, a Thank You

Special thanks to a friend (r) who mailed me these home made with love goodies! LOVE them!! It is a precious gift to me. Thank you.


It took me about three weeks, between all the ruckus here, but it's done. Crickles saw what I was making someone else and flipped through the set of charts and chose this one and asked me if I would make it for him. How could I refuse his total sweetness? I did not, and, he was so cute when I asked him to be patient, "because life around here interrupts." He understood and waited so patiently, especially when I could have set aside the books and just stitched instead. When I showed it to Teenie, she clasped it to herself and said, "Awww, I want it." So, guess what? Yup. I can't refuse her, either. However, she'll have to wait as I have another project already started.

Crickles said, upon receiving it, "Oh, I love it! Thank you!"

So worth the time!

I cheated the design a bit by not adding the two leaves on the bottom. I let Crickles decide how he wanted it to be and he said "no leaves". I will admit I was glad about that. That would have added another hour or two to the project.

The back of the bookmark is dull, I suppose, but at least the stitches won't snag on anything this way and maybe it will last longer. I hope! I sewed the fabric on by back stitching double strands of yellow (that you can see on the front a bit better) and then trimmed down the fabric with those drat pinking sheers. I will make those pinking sheers my friend.one.day.