I have started to make things for the Holiday Festival booth which I hope to do again this year. I am making things that if they do not sell at the festival, I can use for gifts for family and friends. I have found that gloves are an easy and quick item to make. I always thought they would be hard to do, but I can actually make a glove in one day and that means I can finish a pair of gloves in just two days as opposed to making a pair of socks that takes two weeks to make. I am going to make a bunch of gloves for men and women and I will gift them to my family if they do not sell. If they do sell, it won't take much to make new pairs to replace them.
I am also making something a little different this year. I am trying to think outside the box a little bit. I am making my knitted stuffy toys, but I am using a really soft baby yarn that doesn't look like the critter has even been knitted. I am doing it in the baby colored yarn, so there are blue, pink, yellow, white, and green mixed in. I have always had a hard time making animals of a different color than they actually are, but you see toys like that all the time. This is pretty much a first for me, but these little animals are so soft and cuddly that I think they will make excellent baby's first stuffies.
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This is a pair of men's gloves (my first pair) and a pair of wrist warmers for women. |
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My first pair of women's gloves. Fingers seem a little too short so I lengthened the next pair. |
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This is a beret slouchy hat that matches the gloves above from the upside down view. |
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This is the top view of the beret slouchy hat. |
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This is the beret slouchy on a head model. |
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This is a pair of women's gloves with a newsboy beanie to match. |
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Side view of the newsboy beanie. Looks a little better than the front view. |
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Close up of the newsboy beanie shows the rolled brim in the front and the textured look of the body. |
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These are my adorable hippo, elephant, and rhino made from the fluffy, soft baby yarns. I have one more to make.
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I have had a birthday to celebrate in the mix of making these things. My Annie turned two and so I made her some dresses.
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These are the two dresses I made for her. |
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This dress is 100% cotton and so will wrinkle, but I had to use this material for what it says. |
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Sizing up the Grandma dress (she wouldn't put it on) |
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The other dress, which she wore to church and showed everyone her new dress. |
I plan to keep making gloves, hats, toys, and other items for the festival. It keeps me busy and I love doing it. I also want to make some more plastic canvas Christmas items just to break up doing the same stuff all the time. Before I know it, it will also be Halloween costume time.