placemats and a hat

 So my youngest DD asked me to make her some placemats to go with some she already had. The first picture is of the original ones she got years ago and below it are the new ones I made to go with them. She asked that I try and use the same colour combo and as close to the original as I could. I used the top one as a guide for colours, size and pattern.

                               From the left over fabric I made her a table (runner) topper. Using the main fabric    for the mats as the backing.

This hat is a kit from Lionbrand. Pattern is called the horizons beanie. The hat band is double and knitted together before starting the stripesYarn is LB collection chainette yarn . Two balls of the pink and one of the cream. Came with enough yarn for a child and adult hat. I made the adult for me and will make the child one at a later time and donate to the mitten tree.

Some more small crafting items

My daughter likes these flannel hand  warmers so I made another pair for her to stick in her Birthday gift. I fussy cut the fabric so that I could get a fox in the centre of the warmers. Had to be careful doing so as I was cutting them from scraps of fabric left over from DGD nightgown. 

Below on the left is the little pkg I came up with for the bookmarks I made for my grandchildren out of animal buttons I found in my sewing area. Still can't remember were I purchased them or why but since the DGC are all into books though this would be a perfect way to use them.

In the centre is one of the Christmas gift card holders I made and on the right is one for my DD December birthday.

Below is a picture of the small gift boxe(s) needed for DD birthday and the bath tea I made for some gifts. They will be paired with some of the owls I made earlier.

 Happy to say that I am now finished with my Christmas crafting and will be working on a few things for me as time permits. Need to get busy with some Christmas decorating and baking.

dress up aprons

Below is pictures of the two dress up aprons I made for DGD along with the mermaid tail. I also made two very simple capes. One from the sparkly fabric used for the mermaid and the other from some red fabric trimmed in black binding.

The bow seen on the Snow-white apron is actually for DGD hair. The tail is just a tie on. 

A bunch of little things

Been busy making a bunch of little crafts. Mostly gifts and a item or two for me.

First off is a pair of Shirl's Mittlets for me made with Nirvana yarn. In a soft bluest-purple looking yarn(colour #72)which I combine with their white yarn. I made a little change to the pattern by adding a few more rows to the thumb and fingers length for a little more coverage. I also chose not to do the cable design on my pair.

Made a bunch of owls. Pattern is called Little Lark Lavender Sachet and can be found on gingermelondolls.blogs Posted on Sunday February 23, 2014. I made 9 total 3 of the pink and two each of the other three. They will be used for pkg toppers this Christmas. One will be for me.

I did make a little change in the order of putting them together--once the eyes were inserted but before they were locked into place I embroidery the lashes into place. Much easier to do so before than after as part of the lash stitches need to go under the actual eye. I used the same fabric on all the owls for their tummy. Rest of the owl is made with felt.

           
  I made some Christmas cards and a birthday card. Below are the two different cards I made.
The fox ones I found by a email sent to me from splitcoaststampers. The fox card design is by Gloria Plunkett. For the Christmas ones I used snowflake punches instead of flowers and than used the flowers for DD birthday card.

Once a month there is a knitting night at the local branch of our public library. At the last knitting night we made some stitch makers.

When looking through my sewing supplies to do a little mending I found some animal head buttons. Do not remember why I purchased them or where I purchased them. I most likely got them at the creative festival a few years back thinking they were cute. Someone posted on a forum I visit about making ribbon bookmarks. So I thought that I would turn the buttons into bookmarks for the grandchildren who are all book worms. Will stick them in with their Christmas gifts.

With the left over yarn from the shawl I made DD for her December birthday I made DD a pair of Shirl's Mittlets making them the same way as I did my pair. The cable pattern is actually part of the pattern that I didn't do on my pair. The wrist has a row of black yarn that was used as trim on the shawl. With the black yarn, shawl yarn and some wine colour yarn I had laying around I made the headband you see below. I plan to give it to DD as well. I used a pattern by Vanna White as a guide.

Nightgowns

Got another gift made along with a couple nightgowns for me. 

The first one here has fox's all over it and is for DGD. I used a McCalls pattern. Fabric is from Joann's. No matching doll nightgown as I don't have enough fabric left over but I do have enough to make in the future a couple pairs of hand warmers.

My nightgowns where made using cotton and flannel using a butterbrick pattern

shawl and bandana bids

Here is the bandana bibs I made as part of a baby gift for later this month. I used cotton for the front and flannel for the backing. The plain fabric bib has both front and back made from the flannel

Below is the two pictures of the shawl I made for my DD. Will be either for Christmas or her December Birthday.

The pattern is called Arrosa by Jennifer Weissman in the Spring 2017 pom-pom quarterly.  

The yarn used to make it is The Yarns of Rhichard Devrieze. Superfine merino yarn-fingering weight in the colour way of gunmetal.

The yarn used for the trim in black is Nako Fiore.

The second picture is a close up of the design on the lower third of the shawl.

DGC Christmas ornaments 2019

A few years ago at the Creative festival I took a Cupcake Delight--A fun lesson in Punto Antico Embroidery class by Kathryn Drummond who also designed the below patterns.

This first picture is off the actual cupcake I made for this class. 

I used the Blue Raspberry Swirl cupcake pattern

While taking the class Kathryn mention the designs would also make great ornaments for the tree or for sachets. I decided to use the patterns for ornaments for the DGC and set out at the festival to buy the supplies to make them. For the ones I made for me DGC I used the Strawberry Swirl cupcake pattern. There was a third design given to us as well at the class. That pattern was Peach swirl cupcake.

They are shown with the little pouch I made for them on the left and the fabric for the backing on the right. The first one here was made on a Pale Misty Blue background with white pearl cotton, and white beads. The backing fabric is a pale blue-green fabric.

 This pink one was made with colour 602 pearl cotton, pale pink fabric, pale pink beads, white cotton pearl thread for the little design in centre.

              These two were made with white fabric. colour 930 pearl cotton, navy beads.

The pearl cotton used for the main design is No 8 and the pearl cotton used for the knots in the centre of the designs is No 12. With saying that the one done with white pearl cotton on the pale blue fabric centre design is made with DMC floss in colour 504. I could not find pearl cotton in a colour that would work.

Around the edge of the ornaments I used DMC embroidery floss to make the braid. Colour S5200 was used in them all. With 823 for the blue, 504 for light misty blue and 602 for the pink. I also used the braid for the hanging hoop. Just a note the pattern actually called for using the pearl cotton used in the patterns to make the braid.

Baby sweaters

Have a friend  who is excepting her first baby in October.  Not knowing if child will be a boy or girl I got busy and made two sweaters.

This sweater is made of James C. Brett Baby Marble double knit. Pattern by the same company. Yarn is in shades of blue and brown. The hat was made using the buttercup bonnet pattern with a few chances.

This sweater was made using Bernat soft baby in Antique white. The soft yellow part of the trim is sirdar snuggle DK. Pattern is Little bluebell cardie and buttercup bonnet from the book Sublime 631

skirts, sweater, top and a dress

Been awhile since I posted any sewing/crafting. Last few months I have been slowly getting some sewing in for me while dealing with a rotary cuff injury.

The floral pink dress below was made using Burda style 6627 pattern

Finally made myself a knitted sweater using Berroco comfort knitting worsted weight yarn in white and the Worn-open Cardigan design by Amy Herzog

 When floral again with this top. Yellow with purple flowers. I used the McCalls M7390 pattern. Plan to use this pattern to make a couple more tops.

I also made myself a couple skirts from Burda 6880. The pattern has two different skirt pattens on it. One longer without a waist band which you see here. I made this from some light denim fabric to wear while running errands or just at home.

  The second pattern on the Burda skirt pattern is knee length, splits at the two side front seams and the middle back plus it has a waistband. It was made with a dresser navy fabric.

Easter dresses

Here are the dresses I made for my DGD and her 18 inch doll for Easter.

I used Butterick B6201 and made the drop waist version of the pattern.

                          This close up of the fabric shows the actual colour of the fabric better than the
                                                      dresses does. Its a light green.

Although DGD got lots of clothes for her 18 inch doll for Christmas I could not help but make her doll another matching Easter dress.

Easter gift bags, boxes and tags

              These are the gift tags that will go on the matching 

gift bags posted right below.

              Below is some little gift boxes filled with some chocolates and one of the bag toppers.
             The bag is covered with little colour dots so I thought it would be best to keep the topper        
              simple.

One of our daughter loves unicorns and so when we came across this rubber duck we picked it up for her. We decided to give it to her for Easter. It is sitting in the gift box I made for it. The box closed up can be seen in the picture right below it.

The cardstock for the box above is pink and gold.

The gift tags on the little boxes came from glenda-jsworld.blogspot.com. I found them while looking at another tag on pinterest  but forgot to save so I can't say what the date of the blog was for them.

The tag on the box for the rubber duck came from shabbyartboutique.com March 21, 2016

The bunny on the gift bags came from findinghomefarms.com 03/07/2017

The stamps used for the bag toppers and on the bag tags came from Feb 2019 make special cards magazine. 

The die used on the bag tags is from spellbinder.

Easter banner

I made myself a Easter banner to put across my mirror by the front door. I used med purple yardstick for the backing and two different shades of pink paper although the one doesn't look pink. Than a rose print paper for the circle.
And finally for the letters I used a lighter purple cardstock. After cutting them out and glueing them to the banner I took a metallic purple colouring pencil to the outer edge of the letters to outline them and make them a little darker.
Right now the banner is attached to some pink yarn but will stitch it out with some pink cotton yarn once I get a dishcloth made.

Monsters and little girls

When I pulled out my cross stitch supplies to make the bookmark in yesterday posting I found that I had started on the above project but manage to forget that I had.

The ones on the right are from a set of patterns called Monster mayhem by Lucie Heaton and are for the grandsons.

The ones on the left are from a set of patterns called Hello, dolly! by Durene Jones. One is for my granddaughter and the other for a friends daughter.

Both sets of patterns can be found in the 2015 365 cross-stitch designs magazine. They are backed by felt and have a hanging loop attached. They will be placed on the top of their ornament box under the tree. Guess I better get busy and get their ornaments finished-another UFO.

April cards and a bookmark

Couple grandchildren have birthdays in April so I have made a couple cards and as part of one gift a bookmark.

 The bug card with the little girl is for my dear granddaughters birthday next week. Thought the combo bugs paper and a little girl all dress up is perfect for her. She loves to wear dresses and pretty things in her hair but also loves to look for/pick up bugs whenever we are out and about.

The bookmark is for my youngest grandson who has his birthday the middle of April. He is a bookworm through and through. The pattern is by Ursula Michael and one of many patterns in her set call Set sail for summer. The collection can be found in the 2015 365 cross-stitch designs magazine. I have another project going on from this magazine and I see a few more designs that I want to make up for little gifts as well.

The triangle print pattern card stock under it is a quick little holder I made to hold but the bookmark and a gift card to the local bookstore. I than use the little bit of card stock left over to make the front of his card.