tiny cooking accessories for a tiny person.

My friend's daugher turned two recently, and the occation required a gift, of course. I knit her a little sweater dress, and decided to include a little something extra that would a bit more excited to a todler then just clothes. I found some toy pots and play food that were just perfect. Then I decided that I should whip up a little tote to put it all in, so that her mom wouldn't go mad trying to keep all of the pices together. Once I got started at the sewing machin, I got a little carried away, and made an itty-bitty appron and little pot-holder.

The appron insperation came from this titorial. I simplified it by making the wasteband out of a wide piece of ribbon. Then, added a cute pocket. The pot holder is a mini  version on the one found in Lotta Jansdotter's Simple Sewing. It is about 5" square and super cute. I used two differant fabrics, one to match the appron pocket, and a contrasting yellow veggie print, for the reverse.

I had all of the veggie fabrics on-hand. They are fabrics samples, that came from a friend who is a fabric sales-rep. The sample swatches are usally quite small (the black piece used for the appron is an exception), and I really enjoy the challeng of figuring out ways to put them to good use.

Comments

[Chase l Oh The Cuteness!]

Daw! SO cute Vanessa! Are those all pieces of fabric from Ivy? You should e-mail her a link to this post, she love seeing what we do with the fabric she gives us.

[vanessa]

yup. all from ivy (even the solid brown). these are prints that i would have never picked out at the store, so it was fun to use them in a project like this.