...7.17...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...y'all have already seen this little project...but I waited to show it to you just to make it a little bit of a surprise for Mom...

...Mom asked me if I could do anything to 'fix' this favorite shirt of hers...as it had been spattered with oil on the front and had a couple of bleached spots on the sleeve...

...so I just embroidered some stars/wheels/asterisks...whatever you call that shape...over all of the spots...and I was amazed at what a great 'randomizer' the spots were for placing the little stars...both the size and the location...it was really neat...

...then when it came to the bleached spots...I thought I'd try to match the colour of the shirt...I just took some permanent markers and scribbled a little bit into a bowl...

...and then added some alcohol and swirled it around to make a dye...

...and painted it over the spot...then I just embroidered over that...but I don't think it was really necessary as the white star would have covered it up pretty well...

...and I may have gotten it a little bit too dark...oh well...

...and here's the finished shirt with it's random sprinkling of stars covering all of the spots...I'm really happy with how it turned out and Mom likes it a lot too...

...and then I also wanted to make her a new hanging towel for her kitchen...just like I made for Sissie's birthday...

...this is Mom's...I'm going to make one for here as well with the other half...

...what's in your workbasket this week?

~Have a lovely day!