Appliqué initialed table linen

Because a new house needs new accessories, and also because we'd left this line of articles aside for far too long...

This is my production of yesterday. Six 100% cotton placemats (2 for each member of the family) with initials and matching napkin or bib in a beautiful soft-coloured batik.

I love the easy to use tiny patterns, the subtle gradation ...

... and understated mix of colours ...

and this top-heavy lettering (Showcard Gothic) which, I think, lends a decidedly modern-retro feel to something that could so easily err on the side of well-meaning handicrafts of some soppy Lady Bountiful.

Flour sack...

What can you do on a Sunday morning, with a little girl, a sack of flour and a few scrap materials? 

You can sew a "pillowcase" dress.

Or, you can create instant lounging trousers.

Don't we have a perfect model?

Now with a headscarf cut in the same batik as the top, bottom and string of the trousers (requested by the model herself):