Introducing... Emmeline!

Such the procrastinator yet again, but Emmeline is finished and is DIVINE! Such a cute and fun pattern! I decided to set aside Friday night to complete most of it and the plan worked. Finished up the strap/binding on Sat. night and was able to sneak some pictures today in between rain-drops.

Here's one side....

And here's the other:

A closer look at the first side - I added a pocket to the front of this side, using some of the left-over binding and a scrap of the flowers.

The pattern was pretty easy to make - it has several skills that I think are great for beginner sewers to try their hand at (gathering, working with the bias, hand-sewing). The only changes that I made were to add the front pocket (I like to have my cell-phone near-by) and to add D-rings to the strap (I don't like having things tied around my neck). I'm not sure the D-rings are the best solution, but I like them overall... any other ideas?

Stop by the sew-along to see everyone's Emmeline's - there's so many cute ones! Don't forget that the skirt sew-along starts tomorrow! The prize will be one copy of the fabulous book - Sew U Home Stretch: The Built by Wendy Guide to Sewing Knit Fabrics. This one has been on my Amazon wish-list since it came out - looks great!

I hope everyone had a fun Father's Day!

Here's another iris pic for you, and a new one of my little spider friend.
He's starting to grow on me...