Despite what some may suggest, I don't believe my friends are popping out babies left, right and center just for the opportunity of scoring a handmade gift. However, one very good friend did make a request for a baby sling like the one I used with C (seems like so many years ago now..) for her long awaited son #2, and I was very happy to oblige. She chose the fabrics (Ikea, how I love thee!) and I threw in a bib for good measure. Although perhaps not good presence of mind when it comes to noticing the directionality of a print.... The small piece of lion and giraffe Japanese fabric came from Patchwork on Central Park, who have a delightful few baskets of tiny fat 16ths (I think?) perched near their ribbon display. At $2 a pop it was hard not to snatch a few sweeties to take home- just big enough for a baby bib with a contrasting remnant of something to finish off the strap.
And in other matters:
I've mentioned this before, but I am getting more and more annoyed by the commenting system I'm using at the moment. I'm contemplating switching to the standard Blogger system comments, but it means I will loose about 5 years of comments from my blog (although I will retain comments from this year). Not something I really want to do, but I really don't want to go on with the system I have- I feel cut off from commenters because it isn't easy to reply directly to you, and for the most part, it's not possible to find out who you are, and click through to your blog. So, I'm canvassing opinions. Let me know if you have one- leave a comment (if you can navigate the system!) or email me at clementineshoes at gmail dot com. Thanks!
A wonderful baby gift, lucky friend!
ReplyDeletePS: So happy to hear you have been bitten by the quilting bug, have lots of books if you ever want to take a look.
That is some alarming post title Mrs.
ReplyDeleteI made a friend a matching bag in the same Ikea excellence last year - which possibly only means sewing up a few sling sides once small person is running around! Ahem.
beautiful things! is that really ikea? must be time for another visit there ...
ReplyDeleteOK A few matters.
ReplyDelete1. Love the sling and wish you'd been a friend of mine before I popped the baby and you gave one to me.
2. I like the bib on the diagonal.
3. How come with a stash like mine I have no ikea fabrics? That seems wrong, doesn't it?
4. the comments system is indeed annoying from a commenter perspective too. I can't use it at all on my iPod, and sometimes when I use it the interface to connect to my google identity comes up and sometimes it doesn't. I am more likely to comment on flickr or send you and email in the main. I understand that losing the commenting history is terrible though, so I don't know how you solve that dilemma. I have used the blogger comments (at some stage I think all the various options) and while you can't always 'reply' direct to the commenter you can at least click through to their blog if they have one. The ease with which someone is contactable is determined by them, not blogger (ie how they have set up their profile and chosen their commenting identity) so I guess I have coem to the positiont hat if someone is hard to contact it is because they have decided to be so. None of which helps you at all but...
Lovely sewing, as always of course.
ReplyDeleteYou know how I feel about JS. I've barely managed to reply to a comment since I made the switch. I'm still crossing my fingers that the "community" comes up with a fix, but I haven't heard anything. Boo Echo!
Hi Di, yeah, it's a totally crap commenting system. though I am with you on the prospect of losing five years' worth of comments. hmm. tough call.
ReplyDeleteunbeliveably I have no opinion! This really is quite shocking. Hope you come to a conclusion soon.
ReplyDeleterather than the print direction of the bib being a saga perhaps you could recognise that you made it that way deliberately so when the baby looks down the animals are facing in the correct direction???
Ahh that I wish it were so- the animals actually look in two directions, both at an angle to the wearer and the carer, but never mind. I'm adopting the attitude that it just makes it more interesting to both!
ReplyDeleteI too like the bib on the diagonal!
ReplyDeleteComments, just a thought... have you thought about leaving your blogspot blog as is, and maybe starting a new typepad blog of the same name, that way you get their {seemingly, as I don't know because I am with blogger} better comment system, and you get to keep your 5 years of history here? I know that theirs would cost some mula but I don't know a better system to use with blogger.
Thanks Jo- actually I hadn't thought of that but it's definitely worth thinking about...
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