Well, that's this year's May Giveaway well and truly done and dusted! How did you find it? There were so many bags that I am having second thoughts about doing a bag every year, although if I remember rightly, most of them were fabric bags so perhaps one that's crocheted or knitted might still interest people.
What I wasn't so happy about was all the become-a-follower requirements, even though SMS asked people not to do that, and new this year was the go-to-my-Facebook-page which really annoyed me - but that's mostly because I am not a Facebook fan at all.
But anyway, this is supposed to be a post about Midi's birds, so back to the Giveaway...
I asked readers to leave me a comment, a joke, some baby advice, or anything really, and Gina left me a joke from her 3 year old daughter (known on her blog as Midi). Midi's joke was so funny (well, I thought so, and so did Mr G, so it must have been good) that I decided to award her a special prize.
So.
What's blue and square?
Not an orange!
Ok, I laughed til I nearly cried, but that might just be me.
But what do you send a 3 year old who you don't know and don't have much time to make for? Bunting? bit over-done. Biscuits? might not survive the post. A bag? I think she has several already. But I liked the idea of hanging things, and I had some felt that ws looking for a use, so I settled on felt birds.
I started off with the basic bird pattern from Sew Mama Sew, got out the embriodery threads and away I went.
I got a bit carried away.
I made eight! In two sizes.
See I had a big plan to string them up (like bunting) interspersed with hearts, but in the end there was no time and so I just made loops instead. Midi can hang them off some twigs like I did for the photo shoot , or make them into a mobile, or whatever she likes.
Some had chain stitch feathers...
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and some had running stitch...
And as you can see, I used a random dyed embroidery thread in a pink/lilac/blue combination which I have a bit of a thing about (but in a good way).
The eyes are a tiny bit of cerise pink felt and a french knot, and then I zigzged round them and stuffed them.
Happily I can report that they went down very well with Midi and she even divided them into two lots so that her brother, Mini, could have some too.
