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.