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Cookies and Quilties...

I found some time recently to finish up a few projects I'd been working on.  I'd been wanting to recover the throw pillows on our couch for a while in more springy/summery colors to jazz things up.  Here's how things turned out:

New quilted pillows for the smaller couch that look like this:

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New quilted pillows for the larger couch that look like this (I was originally planning to recover the brown pillows too but I think I like the contrast of them and will leave them as is):

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And a new lap-sized quilt for the back of the couch:

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Here's more of the quilt:

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In other sewing news, LP has been playing a lot lately with zippers- on his sweatshirt, on pants, wherever he can find them.  We've also been working on counting and he's obsessed with Sesame Street so I thought I could combine all 3 things and came up with this (somewhat wonky) Cookie Monster doll:

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Cookie's mouth unzips so that you can feed him cookies!

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And here's LP loving his Cookie!

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Just a few more sewing projects crossed off the list of at least a bazillion projects I want to do!


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  1. A. ComfortJune 8, 2010 at 9:58 PM

    I love the zipper mouth monster, cute yet disturbing!

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  2. AnonymousJune 14, 2010 at 9:11 AM

    Oh, the cookie monster looks so cute!!!

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