And on the twelth day of Christmas, Amelia sent to us....Red Team

I was totally panicking about what to do that would be worthy of all of you when Anna swooped in and saved the day. Something small, cute, light-weight, and seemed straightforward. And a little reflection of me. I had actually considered making a bookmark, maybe knit or crochet. But the idea of knitting/crocheting 13 of them seemed daunting so I abandoned the idea. When Anna sent me this link it was like a light-bulb went off! Brilliant! I like to read, and seems like a lot of you do, too. I also thought it might be really good to use in a cookbook to mark a recipe you want to try.

I used the tutorial Anna sent me with a couple of minor modifications. Somewhere someone mentioned that, beyond being cute, one could use the X on either the right or left page so you would know on which page you left off. I thought this was brilliant because I spend 99.9% of my reading time before I fall asleep trying to figure out where I was. But the way she had it, the X would be sideways on the left side. So, I put it in the center. I think it's a little cuter the original way, but this works too. I also used a white shirt box from a department store instead of a cereal box because I didn't like how the cardboard showed through. To stream-line things used an extra triangle as a template to transfer the X to each bookmark. I tried to match colors with what you liked without buying 13 different things of embroidery thread.

A picture of Amelia's COOOOOOL Bookmark from Lindsey.

Thanks Lindsey!!!