Obi.

When I dressed Purnah for my open house last fall, she looked like she wanted a little something more.  So I started pinning scraps of red fabric on her, vaguely inspired by a Japanese obi (literally, sash). 

All the fabric pieces are leftovers from my mentor-protege experience in 2011-2012.  Many are hand-dyed, one is painted with dye, and another is screenprinted. 

This weekend I finally took the scraps and ironed them onto some reasonably stiff interfacing.  Then I machine-sewed the edges, adding scraps of knit for the ties. 

Now the sash is sitting in my sewing basket, which I keep near the couch for family movies (about the only time I sit still).  Two episodes of Downton = detail quilting on my obi.  Can't wait till it's washed and all roughed up.