I really do love this pillowcase! It makes me feel so young at heart. I still have a lot of this fabric left and I'm trying to decide what I will make with it. I thought a little outfit for my niece might be cute.
The only other crafting I have done in the last two weeks is to make myself a hair towel... you know like those Turby Twist type hair towels. My hair is thick and down to the top-ish of my shoulders, maybe a bit longer, so I always need to use a separate towel for my hair. I have a bunch of purchased hair towels, but saw some bright green terrycloth at JoAnn Fabrics, so I bought a yard. I just used one of the towels I have to cut a pattern off of. It turned out pretty well:
The only thing I would really do differently is to use a wider strip of elastic (I only had 1/4" or something much wider...so I went with the 1/4"). I think that probably 3/8" would be perfect, and I wouldn't cut my piece quite so long.
When I showed my husband the hair towel, he said, "Great! Now, do you have enough to keep in both bathrooms?"
Me: "Honey, I only shower in the bathroom in our bedroom."
Husband: "I know, but you are always hollering at me to bring you a hair towel."
(I always fix my hair and such in the bathroom in the hall...so that is where the hair towel comes off and typically gets left....)
Me: "I know, I sometimes forget to get it before I get in the shower."
Husband: "Well, now, maybe you can just have some in each bathroom."
Me: "Yeah, but sometimes I don't remember until I'm already in the shower and then I don't want to track water all over the bathroom..."
(Note: He didn't seem to get that point, of course)
Anyway, I'm thinking that I might make some of these hair towels as Christmas gifts for some of my family. They would be a nice gift, right?
3 comments:
how does that elastic jobby-thing work?
And yes, they would make a nice gift. you made zippered cosmetic cases last year (am I remembering correctly?) so this is yet another nice "girlie" item to have.
This would be the most awesome gift ever! I am not kidding - my girls have the thickest hair I have ever seen [Bears have nothing on my kids hair - thick, thick, thick] and my MIL purchased these for them a few years ago and I swear it is the first thing they pack when they go anywhere.
You could purchase some cute mini size shampoo and conditioner [for a buck] and make a cute present.
I thought of you today and your pillowcases while driving home from dropping off Squirrel - and I was trying to think of a fabric to make her a pillowcase to send in one of her care packages from home. :)
Take care. SkippyMom
okay...I have bever even heard of a hair towel...I had to go look it up to see how it worked...love the color, and I think making them as gifts is a great idea!
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