My mother-in-law is the ultimate crafter. She can embroider anything and sews like a mad woman. In a good way. I'm in awe of her skills. When she and my father-in-law built their current house she had a special craft room built which I am thoroughly jealous of. As much as I loved it, it needed a bit of pizazz. So I made this for her a few years ago.
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| Her name is Charleen, thus the nickname of Char. If you want to know how I made it ask. |
Fast forward a few years and I saw a clock made out of fabric, buttons and a quilt hoop and I though this would be the perfect addition to her room. Yes, I'm living vicariously through her craft room. I can't help it. You would too if you saw the built in storage/fabric closets and drawers and amazing embroidery machine!
So first off, I bought the hoop. Next I got a simple little linen fabric for $3 a yard at Joann's (I only used about a quarter of a yard. But I am using the rest to make some other items in the near future). A few days later I stopped back at Joann's to get a bag of buttons to match the bright colors of the yarn on the above creation (you can't really tell since my only camera right now is my phone, but it's bright orange, silver, a bright royal blue, and kelly green). I ordered the clock part on ebay for $4 and everything was in place. Fast forward to the week before Christmas and I thought it was time to approach this task.
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| At first I thought I should trace around the hoop and cut that shape to work with for my clock. WRONG! Cut a square a decent bit larger than your hoop so you can pull the fabric and keep it taut while you work with it. |
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| I've never been one patient enough to deal with measurements or numbers or really anything. So I didn't measure the distance between the buttons. But I eyeballed it. It is pretty much even so I'm glad my eyes didn't fail me. |
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| Buttons all sewn on. |
