THE CAVENDER DIARY

I made these fish-themed bath mitts for my first niece Avery when she was born, (gasp), 11 years ago.

Here’s my brother Josh and my sister-in-law Sheridan with the evidence at Avery’s baby shower.

I can’t remember where I got the idea, so I’ll just go with it, and say that it’s my own.

I must be awfully talented…..

Now that Gert and Kylie have baby Maddie, I thought I’d take a stab at making them again.

I started with 4 sets of bright-colored wash cloths from Target. About 2 dollars each.

Each color will be a different sea creature:

• Orange – gold-fish
• Green – seaweed
• Red – coral
• yellow – star fish

I started by pinning two wash cloths face to face with bank pins.

Then I traced my fish shape with a marker. (I wouldn’t normally use something as dark as a black Sharpie, but I wanted my lines to show up for these pictures)

Here’s what my goldfish looks like. Just like a Goldfish cracker.

For sea weed, I loosely traced my hand and added flat fan-shaped finger tips.

Here’s what it looks like on the green wash cloth.

Red coral is a similar shape, I just rounded off the finger tips.

The star fish is a pretty simple shape as well.

I used coordinated thread a just sewed along the black line.

Then I cut out my shapes, leaving about 1/4 inch edge.

It’s much easier to cut these after sewing.

Trust me. It’s a brilliant tip.

I turned them inside out and gave them a good ironing.

You know that craft foam from the craft store? It comes in a multitude of colors.

I grabbed a sheet of the orange to make fins for my goldfish.

I just cut 2 teardrop shapes…….

…and stitched them on with the same color of embroidery floss.

Here’s our finished bath mitts…..

Pretty cute, right?

And won’t bath time for little Maddie just be a bundle of fun now?

Here’s the evidence…..