So I pulled out some natural canvas, made a (boring) keyboard cover that won't make me wince when I find it abused and rescued my toile. Last week I got some black velveteen, cut up the toile and made two couch pillows**:
So now I can hang with my aliens while watching TV.
But there are some places in the toile that are calling for more embellishment and I am trolling for ideas. Here are the locations that I want to corrupt:
Washing Lady
Empty Tree
Lady with a Rake
I'm trying to figure out if I can turn that rake into a pitchfork somehow; that, plus some devil horns and a tail could work.Ideas? Tell me in the comments.
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*After a few week's worth of practice, I can now listen to the boy critter sing the "I've got a perfect body" line in "Folding Chair" without collapsing in giggles.
**By "made couch pillows" I mean that I attempted to sew two squares together with a zipper and only had to rip it out and start over twice!
4 comments:
The empty tree is begging for the Cheshire Cat! The rake could be a pitchfork if you 'eat' the tines pointing down with a thick bottom edge of the pitchfork. I would totally have the woman launder some money.
Thank you Heather! I love your ideas. Now I just have to see if my embroidery skills are up to snuff!
It's probably only because Passover is approaching that I can so clearly see a baby in a basket floating down that river. I don't see any reason why there shouldn't be some money laundering going on at the same time. ;-)
Despite the fact that I keep reading "toilet" for "toile", this is hilarious and so creative! I think you need to add a robot or two in there somewhere, for your daughter's sake. :^)
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