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One Gnome Costume – Check
I finished Little Bit’s Halloween costume… He’s a Garden Gnome!
His hat is made from a lambswool sweater and his beard is a lambswool and angora blend. Both recycled wool sweaters of course. :)
I went rummaging in the wool fabric bin and found a 1 1/3 yards of this nice blue wool, light enough to wear on it’s own, or layer when it is cold. It was a remnant that I bought in Germany a few years ago. It is such a nice fine wool I couldn’t pass it up. I’m glad it has found a use. :)
After Halloween, Little Bit will some more use out of the tunic, since we play in the SCA, with the Barony of Blatha an Oir. He needed new garb anyway, and he still needs more, but we’ll work on that another day.
I used some 1/8 inch elastic on the beard to hook it over his ears and around the back of his head… it was the only thing I had to buy! All the fabric and thread was from my stash! Yeah stash busting. :)
We went with a group to a local nursing home/elder facility yesterday morning to visit and the kids did a parade for the residents.
Here is Little Bit carrying his Halloween bucket that I made him last year. :)
Afterwards we drove down to Schilter Family Farm for some pumpkin picking… in the mud.
Much fun was had. :)
Posted in Fall, Halloween, Little Bit, Reclaimed, refashion, Stash busting, Sweaters, up-cycle, upcycle, wool
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Doing something just because
Sometimes it is nice to do something just because. I got a call from my husband about a guy he is in school with who’s wife had 30 week preemie twin boys. He asked if I’d make them a couple of preemie hats. The boys were born very small and I know how hard it can be to find tiny little clothes.
I told the husband that I’d look into making a pair of hats for them. I had a nice blue cashmere sweater that just screamed “make me into hats for these special little boys.” Without taking any pictures, I sent them out a week ago and I sent a little note with the hats basically saying that I knew she didn’t know who I was, but that our husbands were at school together and we wanted to do something for her boys. I got a call from the husband today… They arrived. She was so overjoyed by this unexpected package that it brought tears to her eyes. And now thinking about it… I’m getting weepy eyed.
The twins are doing great and are off oxygen, but still have a long way to go. I’m just glad I could do something for someone I don’t know that made them so happy.
I hadn’t planned on writing a post about this, but I’m just so touched by the families appreciation for something so small.
Posted in cashmere, hats, Reclaimed
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Gifts for under $20
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I put this little gift guide collection together to showcase some of the Fire Stalker Guild members’ great gifts for under $20.
It’s never to early to start your Holiday shopping!
Posted in AFSG, Collections
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Spoonflower Design Contest
Some of you may be wondering what my Wordless Wednesday was about a couple of weeks ago….
Well…. it is a wet pinecone that I scanned as apart of the Spoonflower Scanned Nature design contest.
I took this scan and made it into a fabric design which is now entered in the Spoonflower contest!
I would appreciate it if you would take the time to go vote. Please only vote for mine if you like it. :) You can vote for as many fabric designs as you like. There are some really cool designs in this contest!
This was my first attempt at making a fabric design from a scanned object and I’m rather pleased with.
My Design…
This fabric is also available to buy from Spoonflower!
Posted in design, fabric, Nature, spoonflower
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Collection Fun
I put together two collections this week…
This reds collection is made up of items from fellow Artfire FireStalkers Guild members.
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Trying to keep a little bit of summer alive…. with Fun Fish!
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Posted in AFSG, Collections
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Hand Puppets
Spoonflower had a Puppet design contest a few weeks ago. I really liked a lot of the designs that people came up with, but my favorite is this one by mytinystar…
I ordered the fat quarter about 2 weeks ago and It arrived yesterday. Whee!
Here are the resulting Puppets!
Rose Red…
Snow White……. and the Grumpy Gnome, which is a finger puppet
Rose Red and Snow White are definitely kid hand sized. My hand was snug inside, but it will be perfect for little kiddo hands.
Though the instructions on mytinystar’s design page say to sew the bear and prince together, I wanted them to be 2 different puppets.
So we have the Prince…..
And the Bear!
Prince and Bear are both good sized and would fit an adult easily.
I did a little Stash-custing and used fabric that I already had sitting around for the backs. I lined them in white muslin. They didn’t need to be lined, but I like them that way.
These are a Christmas present for Little Bit… getting started early this year.
Posted in fabric, holidays, spoonflower, Stash busting
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Sew the Day 