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2006-08-29 * A Cozy Surprise

I've had confirmation that a package has arrived so I can show you this:

It is the "surprise" project I was working on last week, and really for quite awhile now, as it is a very belated housewarming gift for my friend Lauren. If you can't tell, it is a tea cozy and some personalised embroidered tea towels. I used embroidery patterns from Jenny Hart's new book, and based my tea cozy on this pattern from the Mary Englebreit website. And Lauren-- use it! It is washable (cold water, flat dry), and I can always make you another one if some kind of terrible tea accident occurs.

I loved making it, and I wish I knew more devoted tea-drinkers so I could make more of them! My mother drinks tea, but in individual mugs, so no dice there.

Otherwise I'm still working on the pattern to recreate that vintage clutch, as well as sewing together seams on my many cut-out but un-seamed projects. I've been pouring over the book Madeleine Vionnet and wishing that I could take a clothing design class to learn how to do these things right!

reading: The Queen in Winter
coveting: the newest Jaqueline Winspear Maisie Dobbs novel.

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