Madison Jane's belated birthday present.

 My new sewing machine is a Brothers. It is light weight with all the stitches I will need. For my first project I made my youngest granddaughter a stuffed animal.

I finally got down to my daughter's house in Salt Lake City to take my granddaughter her birthday present. I used a teddy bear pattern I have had for about 35 years. It was easy and cute.

 I loved magazines with simple projects. 

This project was in the Oct. 1980 Woman's Day.I cut the projects out of the magazines that I hoped I would some day complete. I usually copied the pattern or enlarged it as in this case. Then I would make an envelop with the instruction on the outside and pattern pieces on the inside.

 I used heavy pellon to put the pattern on. These pattern pieces have lasted a long time. This envelop also had a pattern for a horse and a dog.

My mistake was trying to update it to an alien teddy bear. My daughter thought it was a raccoon. I didn't tell her what it was. My granddaughter was not to impressed.

                                                     The birthday girl.

 

 My little dog, Maddi was hoping that the alien bear would be hers. 
So now I need to make her one.

I had fun being with my grand children and my daughter.







Allyson was piling all kinds of things into the bag I brought down with the presents in.

Roman loves to pose for pictures. So he hams it up. Its a good thing that he is a cute ham.

After a while Madison Jane needed a bag also. She is unsteady on her feet so the bag that she had was over powering her.