I'm back! and jumpers from last fall

rrrrm  rrrrm  rmmm ... hear that? A rusty motor sputtering back to life. I've taken a health related very long break from this blog - and crafting of any kind. I can't stand it anymore!! I must have an outlet. the kids and I are starting a new project today - lapbooks that will count for school but they think it's just a fun art project. That's a start at least.

This was one of the last projects I did in the fall. I made jumpers for my two nieces and a friend's little girl. The nieces got them for christmas. I basically followed the tutorial from From An Igloo for her Bubblegum Jumper, and made a few changes along the way. I made two out of the three reversible, but the one photographed on the table was out of thicker material so it isn't reversible.

Each of them has an applique on one side, which I'd never tried before. So fun.

This is the first one I made. The owl here is just laid out. Below is a closeup of it almost finished. It was the trickiest of the three appliques.

This one is the pink of the butterfly on the other side.

The third one here is brown like Emma's on the reverse.

They were super easy to make, a good project to make in an evening (well, if you're quicker with the applique than I am!). The neat thing about them is that we tried Emma's on my daughter, 6, and it fit as a sweet summer top, or you could layer long sleeves under it for winter. These should be wearable for quite a while.