Me and Isabelle are sick. SICK! I’m sooooo tired. Yesterday morning Isabelle was coughing so hard she threw up. So, last night I kept waking up every single time she coughed. And then of course my coughing woke me up too. So needless to say I’m not up to doing anything.

And that is why I haven’t finished fixing my cow shirt. Or why I haven’t finished with this knitted flower:

What? You say, you don’t see a knitted flower? Well that’s because Isabelle is wearing it around her neck. It’s the big collar looking pink thing. Isabelle calls it her flower necklace. I knit it up while skyping with my sister. Video chat is so cool. She was stuck on the pattern and needed my help so we just skyped each other.

And now I’m too tired to finish it. Or I should say, I’m too tired to look for a knitting needle to finish it. I could sit there on the couch all day but getting up to look for something? Wears me out just thinking about it.

Oh, and I just found out, it makes a nice crown too.

Though for the life of me I couldn’t get Isabelle to take a serious picture.

I haven’t sewed myself something large in almost a year. The last big item I made was this dress. And when I made it, I tried to follow the directions and was very careful and patient. But it’s been so long since I’ve made myself something big, I must have just forgotten stuff. I wanted a shirt and I wanted it now, no yesterday. Maybe that explains why, for some reason, I thought I was exempt from normal sewing rules and common sense.

I don’t know where my brain is.

Because, yes, I cut willy nilly, not being very exact. That doesn’t work, really it doesn’t. And for some reason I was perfectly convinced that even though I wasn’t being exact, the shirt would come out fine. No, perfect even.

What was I thinking? I didn’t even mark my dots. The result: a shirt with the neckline askew and too much poofing. It makes me look like a big freaking COW. My sister said, well you’re pregnant. Yeah but my other clothes don’t make me feel like a cow.

Ok just joking with the drawing. I didn’t choose cow fabric. It’s a nice black, white, and yellow linen.

But it still made me feel like a cow. Mooooo!!!

The other week Isabelle found her old bonnet.

And like all toys, or in this case a bonnet, if she hasn’t seen it in a while it’s like it’s NEW. She was happily playing with it, posing, and asking us to tie it on her head. But it’s too small for her. She’s outgrown the baby bonnet.

So, I thought I’d make her a new one. I let her choose the fabric all by herself.

She chose this pink fabric that was leftover from the log cabin quilt blocks I made ages ago. When she chose it I didn’t realize I didn’t have quite enough fabric left. I had to make the inner brim of the bonnet using two pieces but it’s barely noticeable.

And the inside fabric was leftover from this top.

But you know what took the longest? The ribbon. Not that it was hard to sew but I couldn’t find any! It took several foraging expeditions in the wilds of my crafting stash. I finally found my ribbon under bags and bags of yarn. But you gotta love a quick little project from the stash, no new materials to buy.

I finally finished the bonnet days and days later. Isabelle was so happy. She said, “oh for me? Oh thank you mama!” and gave me a big hug then played happily with it for ummmm not long enough considering the time I took to make it. Oh well. She’ll see it at some future date and it’ll be new again. Hopefully it’ll still fit her then.

Project Notes
Pattern: From Angry Chicken
Fabric: cotton
Size: child