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.

My tept at makingJewellery

Over the three day family day weekend back in February my DH and I were able to get away for the weekend. We headed to Frankenmuth Michigan. Did a little Christmas shopping at Bronner's but also hit the shops in the River place shops as well as the shops downtown. Among the River place shops is a shop called the Bead shop. I picked up the heart beads, the bead on the necklace along with a couple other beads. Cannot remember where I purchased the flower ones other than someplace here in Ontario.

First attempt at making earrings. Think I did ok but some parts certainly aren't round in shape like they should be but am happy with them.

DGD sweater

This is the weather I made for my DGD birthday which is the beginning of April. She shares the date with my late father and I am sure he is very happy knowing he shares a birthday with his great granddaughter.

The pattern is called Matilda round-neck textured sweater and can be found in the book Lovely Knits for little girls by Vibe Ulrik Sondergaard.  The sweater in the book was made with rowan cash soft DK but I used Patons Astra in deep pink. I made the sweater in the size 5-6yrs. The other two sizes for the pattern is 3-4yrs and 7-8yrs. Needle size is 4mm for the body and sleeves and 10mm for the yoke.

This picture is a close up of the pattern. Front and the back are the same.

                                                   The picture below is of the full sweater

 I had some yarn left over as I had to order the yarn online to get the colour I wanted so I order an extra couple balls to be on the safe side.  I did a search on yarnspirations--company home site and found the pattern called cozy kid's set. It's a free pattern and the pattern set comes with directions to make a cowl.