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Adventures with a sewing maching part 3

My dress now has a top. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me so I do not have pictures. It's actually coming along quite nicely. I still need to connect the skirt and top, add a zipper and hem the skirt, but hopefully in another visit or two to the sewing machine I'll be able to finish it.
Yay productivity :)

And then I made a jack-o-lantern. Not a real one, we don't have pumpkins in my area, but a cloth one. I found scraps of felt lying around, and was in a creative mood. First I cut the shapes out. I made two circular pumpkin halves, three triangles for the eyes and nose, a mouth, a stem and a leaf. I did the circles without any kind of guide so they are a bit crooked, but not too bad. However, I did first trace the mouth out, which definitely helped.



I sewed on the face to the outside of one side. Then I sewed the stem and leaf upside-down to the outside of the other piece.



After attaching the pumpkin halves to each other, while having them both face inwards, I had a little orange pillow:



And, after flipping it, I had a (slightly crooked) jack-o-lantern that would stay cheerful all year round.