9.16.2011

The Traumatic Fix

My sweet little Pretty has two sleep items, the bunny and the blanket.


But as much as she loves that bunny, it's really the blanket that is important. Whenever I check on her in the middle of the night, the blanket is being snuggled, while the bunny is tossed to the side.


A few weeks ago, I noticed that the blanket had a hole. I put it on the mental list to fix, but didn't worry too much about it until I saw Pretty playing with the hole. So I decided to fix it right then. Pretty wasn't too happy with me taking her blanket.

Here she is throwing a fit on the floor.


And here she is pulling on the end to get it back.


I decided to do a cute circle patch using Heat 'N' Bond. I traced two circles onto the paper side of the Heat 'N' Bond.


Then I cut loosely around them and ironed them onto the back of the fabric. I picked a scrap piece that had similar colors and tones as the blanket.


Then I ironed one circle on each side, centered over the hole, matching them up as close as possible.


I should have sewed the hole together first, but a bit of a distraction that kept me from thinking clearly. Here's Pretty, tugging on the blanket and crying.


The last step I took was to sew around the circles by hand to add a bit of security. I decided on sewing by hand, rather than machine, to purposefully give it that home-fixed look. And, of course, I had to do it quickly and deal with Pretty tugging and crying the whole time.



So it turned out a bit more home-fixed looking than I wanted, but I still think it is cute.


She was so happy to get her blanket back, she went right into playing with it.


I have mixed feelings about needed to repair it again. I kind of hope I need to so there's more than one lone spot, but I don't want to go through that again. This is much better:


And that's just awesome.

3 comments:

WonderKitty said...

I am just like Pretty. I had a blanket when I was her ager that just disintegrated. And my mom stands by that story. And the one I have now is probably 15 years old. I take better care of them now. All in all, the patch looks cute. I say, keep fixing the holes and eventually she will either love it to death, or move on to something else.

Amanda said...

Bless her! You did a great job of patching it up!

Annalia said...

Is your daughter truly named "Pretty" or is that her blog name? My daughter is named Cozy (although actually it's Cozette Darling), so I just had to wonder.

Cozy would never forgive me if I sewed something onto her bwanky. Never.
I made a cushion for her little chair...she's still mad about it (but doesn't know how to untie it).