This is “Newt”.

Nicki had decided to make some dolls for Anna, and had tracked down a set of instructions for this cool brother and sister pair of dolls (In case you’ve never gone looking, the Internet is absolutely bursting at the seams…sorry…with craft project sites/blogs/etc…this is a “wee wonderfuls” pattern, I am told). This one, the girl, is “Newt”, and the next one will be “Acorn”. These aren’t the names that came with the pattern/instructions, but I think most of you know the significance of the names for us.

As with the last couple of projects, I’m super impressed with how this turned out. Nicki’s got endless patience when she gets into sewing mode, and will happily rip out a line of stitches if something doesn’t seem right. That said though, this project seemed to come together pretty quickly in just a few nights.

Anna’s rather fond of Newt, and has lately been taking her everywhere. These past couple of weeks, several times we’ve been out the door, gotten Anna all buckled up into her car seat and just about gotten the door closed, and then Anna says “I want to bring Newt along!”.

We’ve been busy lately, and craft/project time has fallen by the wayside. Hopefully we’ll be able to back into it soon.

She put this whole thing together quickly, and I’m pretty sure it’s all hand-sewn. The basic design came from a book, which was woefully lacking in directions. Nicki asked me to help interpret them at one point and they were incomprehensible. She ended up doing a lot of improvising and I think the result came out really great.

There’s a little felt flower on one side. Now if I could just learn to take a decent picture we’d be in business.

This is the springtime faerie smock that Nicki made for Anna, and gave to her on Easter morning. I’m not sure where she got the design, but she hand embroidered the design on the pocket, and sewed the rest on her machine.

The embroidery in particular is just awesome. Love the fabric too.

My ultimate plan is for there to be separate little repositories for artwork/projects/etc, and for music-related stuff.

I don’t think I’ve got it quite figured out yet, so there may likely be some ongoing changes.