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.