mini micro mitt madness

OK! This is what instigated my current kick:

I've made several sets over the past few years.

Even wrote a tute on how I stitch them.

personalized some

(embroidery software showing set I made BIL in 2004)

even made some out of old jeans

(excuse the blurry pic -- it was taken with my old camera...)

here's a gift I'm giving on Friday (don't tell!)

I'm experimenting with some that will be a little larger (for my guys with big hands!)

(as it appears in my editing software...)

an ONLINE, HANDMADE gift exchange

I posted earlier in the month that I was excited to participate in Craftaholics Anonymous' summer gift exchange.
Linda, from Craftaholics Anonymous, set up about 650 of us into an Elfster account. We were automatically paired up with a "giftee" and a "gifter" on June 7th. We have (had) until June 30th to create & ship the item(s) to the recipient.

My giftee turned out to be Rebecca from Boise. I was able to ask her a couple anonymous questions to formulate my plan of attack:

Oh good! Maybe I'll make a coffee-something design for her kitchen since she likes food.

ugh! Not coffee...

Green, I can work with green.

hmmmmmmm -- perhaps a tea towel with cookie cutter designs & her name?

So, as I'm going through my designs I realize I don't have any suitable cookie cutter-ish files to stitch on a towel. (I had in mind those old-fashioned aluminum ones with the little green wooden handles...)

(source)

I then determined I would just appliqué her name onto the towel. In green fabric. Make that alternating green fabrics. 

(I modified the "Cheri" alphabet from Bunnycup Embroidery)

So I did.

I also made some microwave finger mitts to coordinate.

(I enclosed a card I made with her name, as well.)
I'm still waiting to see what I receive in the mail...


***6/30/2012 -- Saved by the buzzer! Guess what was in the mail this evening? (Guess you'll just have to "stay tuned" for that post...)

How I made my micro-mitts...

This post is going out to my gir-ruls at Spools Of Fun Embroidery Forum! I guess I'm just a terrible 'splainer when it comes to some of my projects. Hopefully my step-by-lazy-step photos will give you an idea of how I stitched them. Please feel free to ask any questions.



(pre-folded & pressed the "pocket" fabric)



WSS hooped
"sandwich" for body of mitt waiting to be tacked down
(what are my mom's hands doing in my photo!?)

tacked down

trimming
(Yes, I see that gathered bobble!)



How lazy is this?



pockets tacked down



& trimmed



backside -- ready for finishing stitch

done - done - done!

trimming WSS from back



Haven't run a damp rag around edges to remove the last of the WSS,
but you get the idea.