I finished it!

I went looking for baby mobiles on etsy awhile ago - I wanted Magz to have something to look at when she's hanging out pre/post sleep - and ended up loving the stuffed, homemade variety... here's an example. oooh, and I just saw this one, how cute are those girls?? I'm suddenly reminded that I intended to purchase felt in the beginning but ended up finding fabric quarters on sale...

felt would most assuredly have been easier to work with. :) oh well! file that away for the next mobile I make.

so I came away from etsy thinking that I could just make my own instead of paying someone else to do it, even though my stitching/sewing skills are still, um, 'in development'. here are the supplies I started out with:


to these, I ended up adding stuffing, a glue gun, pink ribbon and thread, an oval embroidery hoop, little silver metal hoops, and some wooden dowels. it took a few weeks of working on it on and off, but here's the finished product:

some of the stitching and whatnot came off looking a little rough, but I decided to embrace the 'homemade' look and just enjoy the project. aside from the flower, each stuffed piece has two different, contrasting sides:

baby's-eye view...

it felt good to finish something. :)

-m.y.