When I first started sewing (which wasn’t that long ago) I fell in love with all the adorable Melly and Me patterns that I saw everywhere I went. I seriously think I bought one of every animal pattern they make.
But then I was too scared to try them and put them all in a giant Ziploc bag and tucked them away in a drawer where they stayed until I just recently uncovered them.
And being no longer afraid. I got to work.
The first thing I made was this adorable cat bag. Grace loves cats and purses so I knew this project would be loved.
You can see that in the pattern they used adorable girl fabric. Me? I used some vintage fabric from my stash mixed with the legs of my old corduroy pants that I hacked up for the stripes. Then instead of the cute striped muzzled I chopped up an old wall hanging I bought at a thrift store for 50 cents.
Finally I added some vintage buttons and trim. Then a lonely old purse handle and viola! I finished my first Melly and Me project…kind of…it looks more like a thrift store find than a sweet Melly and Me project. But Grace loves it.
And it does look like our cat Bill. Which is what I wanted.
Grace loves Bill. Bill the girl cat. Bill the girl cat who we thought was boy cat until she had kittens. Until she had kittens fathered by our other cat Ted who split as soon as the kittens were born. Who split because he probably knew that Eddie Van Halen (the kitten we kept) would be evil and attack anything that moved and he wasn’t going to be responsible for dealing with that mess.
ANYWAYS…
I made my first Melly and Me project. Yeah! And I’ve made more since but am choosing not to show you. If what I did with the cat bag was weird you wouldn’t believe what I did to their ridiculously adorable elephant pattern. (Really, you wouldn’t.) And I don’t want the Melly and Me girls to hunt me down and confiscate my patterns.
So in an effort to end this post let me just say hooray for patterns, hooray for Melly and Me, and hooray for my girl cat named Bill.
This is so cute!! And you just made me REALLY wanna see the elephant one! =) x
First of all, I love the bag. I love that you made it look like YOUR cat! That makes it soo special. Second, we had a cat named Slyvester that we changed to Silly, b/c he turned out to be a she too. Thanks for sharing!!
I don’t know what is more fantastic–the cute bag, or your girl cat named Bill. We had a boy cat named Lizzy when I was little . . . we thought he was a girl until his boyness became rather obvious but it was far too late to change his name. I love the bag, it’s fantastic 🙂
I totally forgot about Eddie Van Halen-the attack cat……
I like yours better than the picture. When I was little, I thought you had to buy the fabric that was in the picture on the pattern envelope. My mom finally told me that was just an example, and I could have the material I liked. I like your blog!
I too have a girl cat named wrong. I got her when I was 16 the named her Romeo because I was told she was a boy, then she went into heat and started walking backward with her tail up and meowing loudly. She is still Romeo, but there is now explaining to do.