A monster

She kept asking to watch the little monster on tv, (my eldest daughter this is, and she meant Elmo on Sesame Street, that we'd found on catch up tv), and so, I made her a little monster one evening out of felt. This is my lovely husband holding the monster;

If I ever made another, I wouldn't do the horns so small, as they were really hard to turn! I left him on the shelf of the play kitchen, and in the morning when she came downstairs she said "Mummy what's that? You made it for me?" She was so pleased with him. I was so happy, as she has been a bit scared of things recently, and certain faces on toys, so obviously I was glad he wasn't a scary monster!

snack mat

My eldest daughter is 2 and a half, and the other day she saw me looking at a snack mat tutorial by nanacompany and said; "you make it for me mummy?" So, I did! 

I haven't bought anything for applique yet, so  just interfaced the milk circle of Liberty fabric (as I forgot to interface the Tilda fabric before cutting out the shape of the plate - oops!).

I traced the words onto tissue paper, pinned it to the mat and embroidered through the tissue paper.

Here's the finished mat (on her play kitchen!)

She has been enjoying drinking cold milk from a big girls cup since she's had the mat, but we have to be careful of her little sister who's into everything at the moment!

Wallet

Another present for my husband that I've been working on, is a wallet. I found a great tutorial here. I was working on it yesterday, but it's been sitting there for a while as presents took priority. I just have the pressing and top stitching to do!

The Travel Wallet I started here, is almost finished, but I think it needs to be smaller. So I may unpick and trim the width down. I've put this to one side while working on the other wallet.

and they lived happily ever after

I've recently been working on a wedding present for some friends, I made an embroidered felt heart with felt flowers, tiny glass beads and lace layered over a ribbon for it to hang from. I also made them fabric coasters. Unfortunately, I forgot to take any pictures of them - oops! 

So here's a picture of one I made last year.