Sophia's Gifts

My great-niece Sophia was born last year the day before Christmas. Tammy has been making lots of stuff for Sophia and for our niece Rachel.  Rachel's brothers had gotten what they called "silly hats" from their aunt on their dad's side.  Tammy and I decided to create a silly hat for Sophia.  I thought it would be cool to embroider on the hat--and decided on her initials although I should have come up with something cooler.  The hat was fairly easy to put together as it is just fleece sewn into a tube, fold the tube in half and fringe the open end.  You try the fringes together to close up the open end opposite the fold and voila!  I don't know that my great-niece or her mother--or her grandmother for that matter--appreciated the hat, but I am still excited we did it.  The font is an imitation Disney font--although with the letters in her initials it is hard to tell.

The cloth came from my sister Vicki who makes quilts.  She has made some really nice quilts--I have three of them and they are great.  Most of the quilts she gives away to charity, but she gives most of the scraps to Tammy to use in her classroom and other things.  We used some of a scrap for the hat and then there was enough left over for Tammy to make a blanket.  She sewed blue edge on it that matched the lettering in the monogram which was the same one as was used on the hat.  Everyone appreciated the blanket more than the hat.  Since I did the embroidery, I still felt good about it, but I thought the hat was really cute.  I wish I had a photo of Sophia in the hat.

Sophia had gotten an abominable snowman (the one from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer--Yukon Cornelius called him the Bumble) stuffed animal with a blanket.  I am not sure who asked who what, but Tammy had the blanket and wanted to embroider something on it.  I decided to embroider "Sophia's First Birthday 2010" on it.  I used the Disney font again, which was a huge hit.  My sister Patti and my niece Amanda (Grandma and Mom) both are big Disney fans and really liked it.  Tammy really liked that I used the variegated thread--we had a long discussion about which one to use.  In the end I really liked how it came out.  Unfortunately, the color in the picture is not quite right.  The blue blanket is nice baby blue and looks a little gray in the picture.

Overall, I like to think the gifts were a success.  I had a lot of fun with the embroidery and I believe Tammy had fun putting together the silly hat.