An online friend asked me if I was going to share my needlecraft ‘talents’ with the online world - and I might one day but today I’m going to eat humble pie and share one of my failures with you.For years I’ve wanted to make a patchwork vest and finally last Saturday I got the chance to sit down and do just that. It was a disaster! The vest actually went together quite easily but the colours were all wrong. DH said it looked as if I'd made it out of sheets (I didn't); Son#1 said it looked as if it had been made for "Little House on the Prairie"; and Sons#4 & 5 didn't even attempt to hide their smirks (now you know why I love the men in my house so much).
Oh well, I had fun doing it, and I can cut the vest up to make
oven mitts, or
Christmas stockings, or
a baby's bib, or
cushions, or
bags.
And just to prove I can make some clothes that I’m not ashamed to wear, here’s a photo of a vest I made just a month or so ago (I also made a matching wraparound skirt but that makes a rather boring photo so you’ll just have to take my word for it).
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