what do you do with some old jeans, beloved too small shirt and foam scraps?

Here are a couple of pictures of my daughter's Christmas present this year--a "beanie bag" (as she calls it) This was a lot of fun creating something that she could feel snuggly in, as well as preserve her outgrown t-shirt.

I have a stash of old jeans that work well in a multitude of projects. I think my favorite thing about recycled jeans is that they are both soft and tough at the same time & blue seems to work with most everything.

I used "heat-n-bond" for the appliques--all you have to do is iron it on the wrong side of what you want to applique, remove the paper backing, then iron it onto the other fabric. You don't have to stitch it on--hurray!

I got the foam scraps in a huge bag from the fabric store and then we had to cut/tear them into small pieces. (Easy, but time consuming!)

And here is the completed 'beanie bag' at the base of her bed.

Tomorrow I will be fixing up suits, replacing zippers, and making doll clothes. Sounds like fun :)