One of these down. Maybe 5 or 7(?!) more to go…
And I finished one of the felt ornaments. Phoebe decided this one is hers. Now I’m working on the ice skate.
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Author: hillary
I know what I’m doing tomorrow!
Felt holiday ornament kits from alicia arrived today! I’m feeling a pleasant pre-holiday buzz these days. Not to be all type A on you but I did just get back from driving all over tarnation to Gymboree shops gathering up this year’s matching pajamas and I might already have ordered the Christmas outfits and bought the advent calendars (they were right at the check out counter!). That’s it for the crazy. Although I do actually need to get started on … More
color therapy
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planning a new quilt
… new patterns in print
Fresh from the printer this week are printed booklet versions of previously PDF-only Kit, Chloe and Louise and Mr & Mrs Gnome. We made them up for shops to sell (wholesale shop here) and are happy to have them in our shop for everyone else as well. PDF versions are also still available.
I love getting boxes of patterns from the printer (for these booklets we use PsPrint). They’re so pretty, the stacks and stacks of them in … More
kitty
I made this girl from the Kitty, Bunny, Bear pattern as a gift for a little girl having a kitty theme birthday party. I was digging around in the craft room thinking, oh I must have something kitty-themed around here and then remembered how fast these dolls go together.
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really, I had no other choice
I was remembering the other day when I was having my fabric shortage troubles, that the reason I started making toys was because of the nature of my fabric collection. I’d been thrifting fabric for years for my vintage clothing shop and had amassed a collection of cute but unruly fabric…scraps, pieces cut out from clothes, aprons and scarfs, sheets and pillowcases, just a lot of bits and pieces. So when I sat down to make things for baby Oscar … More
