Last of 2018 Christmas gifts

The one and only Barbie dress I made for DGD this year. Either the Barbie doll I have here is smaller than the ones made now or the pattern is for a different size type Barbie doll. I had to take in the bodice of the dress.

Below is the two knitting bags I made for gifts. The one with the owl is for DGD. Its made with left over fabric from a lap quilt I made her a few years ago. The inside fabric is just the overall floral print seen around the owls. The other  print is for my oldest DD and the same print is used on the inside.

  Snack mats I made for the two little ones I take care of. Nothing fancy. One print is dog paws and the other is dog faces and glasses. They are both reversible. Plan to include some Christmas cookies or crackers with them

And finally the last item is another outfit that I made for DGD doll.  I was also going to make her a coat but found the fabric to fray very easily that I had picked up to make it with so no coat.

shawl in shades of pink

After making and remaking this shawl it is finally done. The pattern that came with the yarn said to weigh the yarn and when half of it was used up-around the end of the second solid pink colour to start the decrease which was the fourth shades and there was actually 9 shades so when I got to the other end of the shawl the 9th didn't end up getting used at all. Guess I wasn't reading the scale right either for the halfway point. So I had to redo it and made the decrease area start half way through the 5th colour. I am so glad that I when back and made the change so all 9 colours were used.

I used 'Creative cotton degrade yarn' 200g-800m 50% cotton, 50% acrylic and you can find all the different shades available on their website.