My mother sent me the link to this shawl from Woman’s Day Magazine. Since she’s never asked me to make her anything before, I hopped right on it. The first challenge was finding the materials. No one sells J. & P. Coats LusterSheen locally, but I was finding something from Red Heart also called LusterSheen… Read more »
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Barbie wardrobe
The pattern included scrubs for both Ken and Barbie. Ken had green scrubs and Barbie had pink. The hell with that. Barbie doesn’t have to be a nurse. Everyone on ER wears blue. Besides, blue was what I had. This was a McCall pattern. Making that pocket was tricky. It’s just so tiny! Then came… Read more »
Chair reclaimed from trash
Twice a year my town has what we call “big trash day” where you can put out large items for collection. Pickup trucks and strollers will cruise the neighborhood, checking out the sidewalk sale. On the last big trash day, I contributed a couple of items that were claimed almost immediately. Then Todd and I… Read more »
Blue baby blanket
This came from a leaflet called Snuggle-Up Baby Afghans. It’s the one with the blue and pink stirpes. I’ve got a couple of upcoming babies and at least one is a boy, so I decided to use all blue. This is a very bright blue for a baby but I like it. They say babies… Read more »
Barbie’s blue silk evening gown
I love this gown. I wish I had the tiny waist and long legs to look as good in it as Barbie, not to mention enough of that material to make it. I don’t even know where I got the material from. It was obviously cut from something because there was a seam in it,… Read more »
Basketball booties
I made these from Booties by the Dozen for my soon-to-be nephew Logan. His soon-to-be father is a huge sports fan, so I think they’ll be a hit. I really hate working with thread though, especially black thread. It’s so hard to see the holes or to count stitches and it really strains my eyes…. Read more »
Puppets
I made these four puppets from a book called Puppet Mania for my nephew’s first birthday. Really, he’s too young for puppets but we can do the puppets and I think he’ll like watching them move. The book has a wide variety of puppets all made with “common household items” and basic craft supplies. I… Read more »
Last of the Special Stitches Scarves
These are the last four patterns from the Special Stitches Scarves booklet, which I had a lot of fun with. Here are links to the others: Special Stitches Scarves, patterns 1 – 4 Special Stitches Scarves 5 & 7 In general the patterns were interesting and varied and worked up nicely. They tended to be… Read more »
Polymer clay cookie cutter ornaments
These I think came out just adorable. For my first efforts with polymer clay I decided to start with stamping shapes out with cookie cutters, seeing as I’m not that artistic. The books make it sound awfully easy to make characters – just make a ball, now add a square, etc. But experience tells me… Read more »
Ugly cloth ornaments
When Todd saw these in the book he said, “I don’t know. They look kind of bunchy.” Well, he was right. These are made by taking two cloth circles and trying to ease them around a styrofoam ball. The result is kind of bunchy. Add to that the difficulty of getting everything square and centered… Read more »