My girlchild loves cats.
She reads about them. She writes about them.
She reads about them. She writes about them.
She watches documentaries about them.
She plays with them.
She draws (lots of)
pictures of them.
She made this one for her friend Isaiah, who loves Star Wars.
She made this one for her friend Isaiah, who loves Star Wars.
And this one:
She dresses like them.
She dresses them.
She gives them props.
She sings this song
with no humorosity or mockery.
She's also very persuasive. We were at JoAnn's Fabric
Store one day and she convinced me to buy some, what she calls, Snow
Leopard Fur Fabric. I had a 50% off coupon, so I am pretty sure I
saved more money by buying it than I would have if I hadn't bought
it. Isn't that how coupons work?
I'd seen and fallen in love with this coat on the World Wide Web at some point.
It's really fantastic. It's made by littlegoodall and for sale on etsy. You should totally buy one for you kid. Unfortunately, it is out of my price range, a little too young-looking for my second grader, and not nearly warm enough for a Vermont winter. This past weekend I decided to improvise up a coat for her from the faux fur fabric. I traced out a pattern from a coat that she already had in my typical free-wheeling pattern making technique. I spent a lot of my weekend looking at this view.
I'd seen and fallen in love with this coat on the World Wide Web at some point.
It's really fantastic. It's made by littlegoodall and for sale on etsy. You should totally buy one for you kid. Unfortunately, it is out of my price range, a little too young-looking for my second grader, and not nearly warm enough for a Vermont winter. This past weekend I decided to improvise up a coat for her from the faux fur fabric. I traced out a pattern from a coat that she already had in my typical free-wheeling pattern making technique. I spent a lot of my weekend looking at this view.
And my family saw a lot of this view:
Since I
hadn't been blogging, I didn't think to take pictures of the whole
process.
I was inspired and informed by this tutorial.
And this one.
And this is what I came up with:
That face!
Those ears!
That tail!
And warm. The faux Snow Leopard Fur is thick and warm. I lined that baby with some flannel that I had bought on sale last year and was too lazy to use saving for such an occasion. The hood is lined with a sweater that was salvaged from free pile at a yard sale upcycled. I also made flannel-lined pockets that are big enough to cram in a mittened hand. That's some Vermonty-thinking right there.
I love this coat.
I was able to make the coat for under $10, and the girlchild really loves it.
She's told me about a 100 times.
