Thursday, March 18, 2021

Now that I have blogged all my service project for 2021, I will go back and blog things that I did in 2020 but did not get blogged.  I just didn't blog much after Covid hit us.  I just started making masks, masks, and more masks.  I probably made over 1000 of them. I gave them to family, friends, neighbors, church friends, Primary kids (from church), people who picked up food at the food pantry, teachers, and special orders.  I have blogged what they look like in a past post, and I certainly didn't take pictures of all of them, so I will not show any more of them.

Another of the service projects I did last year that I did not take pictures of was starter baskets for new mothers that don't have much money.  I filled the baskets with diapers, wipes, toiletries for the baby, receiving blankets, hand knitted hat, and a hand crafted toy, and a little felt book that I also made.  These were donated to the hospital like the baby hats and heart pillows that I made in January and February.

I just found pictures of some of the things I put into the baskets.  I was pleased to have fleece that matched the animal heads that I knitted.  Actually, I decided which animals to knit by the print I had on fleece scraps that I had left over from past projects. I knitted the small head so the baby can grasp onto it and cuddle up with a soft blankie.


Lion

Frog



Owl



All five of them together.

Bear


Skunk

These are tabby quilts that I also put in the baskets.
Hard to see what they really look like, but they have
little loops of ribbon of all sorts of colors and texture 
all around the sides of the blanket.




Now for some more projects that I knitted or made in 2020.






  These are the knit bags that I made for the ladies in my family for Christmas presents.  I also made canvas backpacks or sling bags for the kids in the family and vinyl bags for the men.  For some reason, I forgot to take pictures of them, so I cannot show what they looked like.













Joey in his short sleeved
western shirt.

Annie in her dropped waist dress.

Mabel in her dropped waist dress.

Joey in his other western shirt.

Ezra in his western shirt.

Lucy in her top.

           I made these shirts and dresses for some of the grandchildren during the             summer.  I am missing pictures again so I cannot show all of them.  The
           pictures don't really show how the shirts for the boys look western, but 
           they do have v-shaped yokes and pearl snaps.








I had not made baby things in quite awhile, so when I got the opportunity to make some for a friend who was giving a drop off or mail a present baby shower for her daughter-in-law, I got busy.



foam cube covered with
material. This shows the reflector
used as a mirror that I put
on one of the sides


Novelty bibs

Other sides of the above cube

Animals to go with play mat shown below

More novelty bibs


Play mat with the animals hanging

Double sided fleece fringe tied blanket

More novelty bibs















Cuddle blankie like the ones
from the project shown above

Super soft knit bear

two sided blanket (should look red, not pink)

changing pad

Above changing pad closed up so that diapers and wipes can be stored in the pockets













Now for the knitted projects that I gave to people as Christmas gifts.

Head band, scarf, and fingerless gloves
with flip top mitt.  Gave these to my
good friend, Nancy.

Head band and fingerless gloves.

Head band



       

 
Fingerless gloves given  to a friend's daughter












Head bands which I gave to my missionary ladies.

Hat and fingerless gloves with flip top
mitt.  Gave to my good friend, Colleen.


Just when I started my 2021 project of making the 72 toys, my son came to me and asked if I had time to make him another play mat set for a friend that was having a baby very soon. I have made play sets for him in the past and he loves to give them to his friends.  He pays me to make them, so I don't really mind doing it.  He asked for a fish related theme since his friend really loves to fish.  I had all the things I needed to make this little whale and fish play mat set.  Completed it in less than a week.  On the mat, I appliqued a picture of a boy riding on the back of a whale.  The top side of the mat has the whale pattern and the back has a fish patterned material.  Both are flannel and can be seen in the arches.  I knitted four fish of different colors and one whale hanging from the center ring. I made a pouch out of the back material to store the animals when the set is disassembled.  As with all my arched play mat sets, the arches can be used as shown, or they can be hung over a crib and used as a mobile. 





Christmas ornaments I made for
the ornament exchange we had
with some of the ladies from my church


Boxes I made to house the ornaments in.
I made one set of ornaments for each
of the three ladies that I exchanged with.

 I made the ornaments and boxes shown above out of plastic canvas.  After I finished them, I decided to make an ornament for each of the families in my neighborhood.  That ended up being 33, I think.  I did not take pictures of all of them, but they were like the above, and of course, many other different ones.  I delivered them a week before Christmas so that they could hang it on their trees.  After I finished those, I made a bunch more and gave them to my co-workers at the Westport Food Pantry.  It was a fun project.  I like doing plastic canvas work.

That about sums it up for my projects from 2020.  Hurray!  About time. 

 Just finished the final animal for my 2021 service project.  March 18 and I am done.  Needed to be done by my birthday in August, so I did well.  Guess I will go back to cross stitching.  Here is my final little fellow.  


Love this little guy.  His face is so adorable.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2021

 As promised, here are the machine sewn animals.


Medium lambs

Small cows
2nd Small tiger kit
Small tiger kit
Small puppies

Small ducks
  


                                        

               

Large giraffe

Large zebra

Large horse

Large unicorn

Back of unicorn (the horse mane looks the same)

Medium skunk

Medium beaver

Medium owl

Medium squirrel (Now that is one mean looking creature)

Large fox

Back of Fox

Large bunny

Bunny from back

Large Raccoon back 

Raccoon from front

Large standing bear

               

Medium  bear

Small Bears

Medium bear

Large dolphin

Medium fur bear

Medium fur bear

Small elephants

  I believe that I got them all.  I have found that making fur animals is a bit of a challenge.  It is so hard to get the fur cut so that the pieces are even so some of the animals like the one right above can  get some pretty funny shaped heads and faces.  I kind of like it, though, because it adds character to each creation.  They may be made from the same pattern, but they do not always come out looking the same.  Take a look at the two elephants -- they were made from the same pattern and even the same material, but one is fat and one is thin.  Why?  Can't tell you.