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I have had keyboard problems, and have to post several things......tomorrow!

Day 17 - Eyes

I think of pirates, and pirates came to my mind's eye quickly on this day of eyes.

Bassets have long long ears that get into a lot of stuff.  They get into the water bowl when they drink and into the food bowl when they eat.  They drag along the wet grass and they get chewed by your friends when you are fighting playing hard.  They just plain get in the way.

We use snoods, or hoodies as I call them, to keep them out of food bowls.  Otherwise I would be cleaning ears two or three times a day.  For some reason, Chloe's ears don't get into her food.  It must be the way they are shaped and the way her bowl just keeps them out of the food.  But the boys! Oye!

When we first got DiNozzo I bought a snood from Howlin' Hounds, a basset rescue located in Lafayette, LA.  She makes a lot of doggy stuff and sells them to keep the money rolling in for the rescues she houses.  It had pirates! :-)



But when we got McGee the following year, DiNozzo had outgrown the pirates and they got passed down to McGee.  :-)

And one day..........he ate the pirates.  :-(

I made two more, but when grand dog Hugeaux, who is a King Charles Cavalier Spaniel with some LONG FLUFFY EARS comes he needs one more.

He is really scared of fireworks or when his daddy shoots the guns, so he comes and stays in the safety of his grandma's house.

And so, today, on the day of the eyes, I made Hugeaux one for his ears!

Now if he just had earmuffs for the fireworks tonight!

Day 9 from Caroline

She played with her breakfast this morning!

Day 16 - Stamping

I need a project bag for my knitting.  Perfect.  I will use Day 16 to stamp me one.

I gathered my supplies.  I had a bit of foam left from the last set of stamps I made with Ann Johnson.  (love that lady).  And I used my kitchen shears to make some thin strips that could be made into leaves.



I mixed a color with my Setacolor paints.  A small paintbrush from my watercolor days worked well in getting the paint on the stamp.

I rather liked the stamp, and will revisit the idea when I have more time.  Right now, I needed it to dry.



The sun was shining so it went out on a freshly trimmed leggy ligustrum
poodle bush.



I have an overabundance of scraps so i trimmed a handful down to 1 inch and made the backing for the project bag.  I used a scrap of flannel as the batting because I didn't want this to be stiff.



Hey, I did throw away the trimmings, it was hard but I did it.





I wanted a zipper so my stuff would not fall out, and I thought of that too late so I had to invent a new way of putting in a zipper.  Needless to say, I did not hide my inside seams.  But that is fine, it is for me, and I like it.

I REALLY love the red zipper with the yellow and green print!


I added a pocket to the inside, THEN thought about quilting the stamped side, phooey.  (But that is not really the word I said.)

Here is the inside, with the nice big pocket.


PS - remember the tiny book I made for Carrie's birthday.......well McGee ate it yesterday.  I found it today..........

Day 15 - Dollar

Today we look at what we can do with a dollar.  I thought about the value of a dollar and what it can buy, fabric wise, of course.

I took John Quincy to The Purple Cow to find me some bargains!

There is an area  of the shop where the stuff that doesn't sell goes to bargain basement prices.  99 cents!  Just under a dollar, yeah, buddy.

It says Women's Tops but I found an EX L Men's shirt of 100% cotton.  I check labels!

This wonderful piece is going home with me in exchange for my dollar coin.

Let's see how much fabric is in this piece.  Way more than you think!

Start with a nice sharp scissors and cut off both sleeves.  Long sleeves are even more fabric!

I use the rotary cutter to cut away all the seams and hems.  Sometimes I can get an extra two inches if the piece has a deep
hem across the bottom.



Save all the buttons!

There are many buttons in the
seams as well.

 These are what a deconstructed shirt looks like.  The seams are tossed to the garbage.  The usable portions equal about 3/4 of a yard.

All for a single dollar!

Day 14 - miniature

I had a time coming up with an idea but I think I killed it!  The weekend was so busy I got little but this done in the sewing room.  Carrie's birthday was Saturday and we had house guests and all the cleaning that came with it.  And on Sunday, a fabulous dinner with my friend who just had his knee replaced.

He came out walking with just a tiny gauze band-aid on his knee and it has only been 5 days since the surgery.  Amazing, totally amazing!




I decided my project would be a miniature book for Carrie for her birthday.  Since I had gotten her
nothing....yeah, right!





The tiny book is really cool!  I think I may do this again.
Even though it looks like a large book, it is actually only one inch!





And I wrote the entire birthday song on the pages inside!

Happy Birthday, my baby girl!