Otter's Recent Sewing Project

Otter learned to sew in school this year. She made several of these pouches as gifts for her friends. They turned out really well. She appliqued the decorations, each one was personalized for the girl it went to. One girl loves penguins, so hers had penguins, etc. They were really cute and very detailed. Unfortunately, Otter forgot to take pictures. She gets that from me, I guess!

Anyway, she made me one for my birthday last year. It's holding some of my many crochet hooks. I have a lot of crochet hooks!

Ignore the phone cord visible in the picture.

There is a hook in this picture for size comparison.

She was going to applique the decorations on mine, but I found these adorable felt Christmas ornaments in the clearance bin at WalMart and just thought that they were so cute. So Otter used them instead of making each individual flower. They don't really look like Christmas ornaments to me, but that's their intended purpose.

The pouches zip closed, she learned how to put in zippers - which is something I've never been able to do.

She was very sneaky about it. I knew about it in advance, I picked out the fabric for it. But she didn't tell me when she was going to make it. One day, I noticed that my picnic basket full of yarn had been moved but I thought that Bill had moved it out of his way. I should have figured it out, because Otter kept talking to me about yarn & suggesting I get some out of the basket. Which was kind of odd, but I didn't catch on. A day or so later, I got into my picnic basket and there it was! She's sneaky, but it was a fun surprise.