A Wallhanging for the Borrowers

Are you familiar with the children's chapter book, "The Borrowers?  I'll give you a short summary in case you're not.  A teeny tiny family lives in the floorboards of a normal family's home.  They are very creative about what they use for furniture, etc.  For example, a cardboard matchbox is a bed.  Anyway, it's a cute little story and many of my fourth graders love it.   What does this have to do with anything???  Well, you'll get it in a minute.

I purchased this kit on clearance at the Fons & Porter Quilt Shop when I was there this summer.  

I should have looked at the pattern and fabric more closely.  

It is VERY small.

The fabric is dated.

It's done.

And that's the best thing I can say about it!

I'm sure it would look nice between the floorboards in the home of the Borrowers!

Snowman Wallhanging

Since Bud and Payton spent their day deer hunting, I was able to spend the day sewing.  Well, half of the day anyway, since I had to put out my snowman stuff  which leads to moving things around, which leads to cleaning, ....well, you get the point!  Anyway, I sewed most of the afternoon and got two snowman wallhangings done.    This one is mine and is hanging on the wall!

I used fabric from my stash and a borrowed pattern called Jack Frost.  

I meandered the entire thing except for the snowman.

I made another one with some of the same fabric and some different fabric.  It still needs binding 

But I do think the snowman needs a mouth.  What do you think???