Quality time with the sewing machine and a finish

My Mum loves her Bible. She’s had it since 1968 and it’s been underlined, coloured, and written in. There are notes from sermons she’s liked, and photos of people important to her glued into it. But it is really looking its age. It’s had several covers in its lifetime and I decided it was time for a new one. We went through my stash and found this vintage jersey that she liked and I made this.

It’s not great, but I’m pretty pleased with it given that it’s my first attempt at anything like this and I made it up as I went along.

Mum isn’t at all crafty and on the right you can see her previous repair job.

My mother and brother took the Red Bus around Cape Town today and Gorgeous Girl and I went to Baby Show and Tell. The woman who held the birth education classes for us hosts a morning tea once all the babies have been born. Here’s the ones that were able to make it.

This picture makes me laugh.

I also have my first charity finish for 2008. I didn’t meet my goal of 25 Things for Charity last year, getting pregnant and having a baby kind of messed with that, so it feels good to have the first one for the year done.

I still need to weave the ends in, but they will be dropped off with some of Gorgeous Girl’s clothes on Thursday.

Tomorrow I have to go in to work for an hour or so to run the new person through my old job and then Mum and I are going fabric shopping. I’m going to run up some placemats for her to take back to Australia as gifts. They will be the same ones that they sell at the markets, but at a fraction of the price 🙂

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