happy birthday, hanna!

tomorrow is niece hanna's 15th birthday. as i have a reputation to protect -- one for doing things in a non-traditional manner -- we celebrated hanna's birthday by making a skirt. more accurately, hanna made a skirt and i hovered around.


hanna is a contra dancer, so this is a fabulous contra skirt, carefully designed with panels and triangles to swirl perfectly and catch the light. she wore her "math counts" t-shirt which helped me remember why she didn't need much help figuring out the geometry of this skirt design.

in this next shot, the yummy fabric. hanna gave the extra fabric to lela, my favorite 4-year old next door, who loved its softness but made sure we knew that in barbie mariposa, the bad barbie is named hanna. (yesterday, lela said "you remember that good hanna?")


ta da!!!! (oops, my hands want to type "to do!!!" what does that tell you?!)

is this a beautiful girl in a beautiful skirt, or what?!


you go, hanna!
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today's quote from lela: "the willy wed ones ah wipe," showing me the cherries in her yard.