Froggy's Quilted & Appliqued Wall Hanging

This is what Froggy gave me when I visited her last week.  It's machine and hand sewed as well as appliqued.  It's a wall hanging, about 20" x 15".  It has a polka dotted background, the edging is bright  yellow with assorted colors on the front.  The center attraction is an appliqued armadillo with a heart on his shell, a Texas flag and flowers including bluebonnets.  The corners have a button, the bottom two are lavender butterflies and the top two are yellow stars.

Froggy obviously put a lot of work into this and I've very happy with it.  Now, we just have to decide where to hang it.  Bill wants it on one wall and I want it on another one!  We both want it in the bedroom, it works really well in there with the quilts we already have and we both like it a lot.

Here's the full piece.

Armadillo!  They are very special creatures to Texans.  Yes, sometimes we do call them speedbumps!  But this little guy is so cute.

Sorry about the string that shows!  It is a stray thread that I didn't notice until just now.  It's not attached, it just landed on the star.

The flag!  And a close up bluebonnet.

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.