a gift for baby willow

i finally finished something really special - a hand stitched willow tree for my friend melinda's sweet baby willow. she was born with trisomy 18 and they aren't sure on how much time they have with her, so i wanted to make something that they can treasure for always if she is called home.

i searched on pinterest until i found a picture i was happy with...

traced it onto linen (while wanting to tear my eyes out... it was a lot harder than i thought it would be)

and got stitching... originally the plan was to have it done as a gift for her baby blessing, but considering i started it that morning - and severely underestimated just how long it was going to take... it was not finished for quite some time after that.

after much time and then much more time of careful stitching...

and the addition of her name stitched at the bottom...

it was ready!

my amazing mum framed it up for me

and it looked absolutely perfect and i was so so proud of it! 

and when i gave it to mel, she loved it just as much and now it's on permanent display at their house. i love knowing there's a little piece of my heart in their home.

stitching for the babies

sometimes i like to sew. i find stitching back and forth creating words or an image quite therapeutic. in december one of my friends from church had a baby and i decided i would make a little sampler of his name for his room - and it only took me three months to get around to it - and less than three hours to finish it hahah. add a cute coloured edge frame from our local reject shop and ta-dah! i thought it was sweet. 

then our adorable next door neighbours had a baby this week. a long awaited rainbow baby who will be very loved! i thought what the heck - let's do another one... 

so baby april got one too. i loved making them - hopefully their mums liked them too.