Happenstance

A friend asked me to crochet her daughter a Supergirl doll based on the new Super Hero High School  series. I was super (see what I did there) excited to work on this and decided to make my favorite, Wonder Woman, as well! Obviously, I made Wonder Woman a bit my own - but I think Supergirl turned out pretty spot on. I used the patterns I bought from 53Stitches on Esty as the base of my designs and then altered the clothing and hair to what I wanted.  I don't like the look of bead eyes or giving gifts to children that might choke them (albeit the younger variety), so I generally make my eyes and other facial features out of felt, pen, and/or darning yarn. 

For our second wedding anniversary (cotton), I made Mark a t-shirt quilt out of all the Old Chicago Beer Tour shirts we collected over our years together.  I followed some simple instructions  and felt it turned out pretty well! Some of the difficulties I faced while making this had to do with the shirts' patterns not all being placed in exactly the same place or being all the same size. Other than that, really the most important thing was getting all the interfacing on so that the shirts didn't stretch oddly at any point in future use.