Christmas things for the festival

I have been working on some things for my booth at the Holiday Festival.  I have knit some Christmas hats and made some decorations with plastic canvas. The plastic canvas makes really nice Christmas things, but to cut the little ornaments out, it took a lot of time, patience (something I lack immensely), and perseverance.  I am very fond of the things I have made and I feel they are really pretty.

The green hat is more for a girl and has a tie at the top which cannot be seen in the picture. The other could be for a girl or boy and has a pompom on top.

This Santa hat has a seed stitch band with the stripes and pompom.

This is a traditional Santa hat with a ribbed band and pompom.

The Christmas tree ornaments on the tree.

This beautiful angel tree topper is my favorite. Her elegance will enhance any Christmas tree.

Rocking horse tree ornament.

This cute little Santa ornament almost met his doom when I inadvertently clued his felt back to his front.  I quickly retrieved the ornament from the felt and with great painstakingly effort was able to get the glue off him without ruining him.

A sparkling star will highlight any tree.

A beautiful little tree for the tree.

This little gingerbread house ornament is probably my favorite. It was a nightmare to cut the canvas correctly.

A simple candle ornament.

Every tree can use a bell to ring good tidings.

I'm not sure why, but the part on this little train that looks blue is actually black.  I used the same yarn as I did for the scene below and the black looks black in it. The red also looks different, but is the same red that I used in some of the other ornaments. This was my first ornament to stitch and it took me the longest.  I just could not get the count right in the area for the wheels.  After many take outs and do overs, I finally got it to look like it was supposed to look.

This little tri-fold nativity scene is ideal for any household with little people who like to pick things up and play with them.  The two little sheep add some 3-D to the look of the scene.

This little elegant treasure box was difficult only in that the gold thread that I used is actually for jewelry and it is very stretchy.  It was very hard to thread through the needle and if it went through too much yarn, it would stick and the gold thread would separate from the stretchy material under it.  I also had to double the thread and go through every hole at least twice.  It was also very hard to hide the places where I started and ended with a string.  I had to re-thread often to keep it from fraying and breaking apart.

This shows the top of the lid with the little bell that was done with the shiny, stretchy, gold thread.

This shows how the lid actually sits inside the box. I will fill the box with chocolates wrapped in shiny gold paper.

This cute little Ho, ho, ho, ho tissue box cover will brighten a bathroom vanity with holiday cheer.

I plan to do a few more knit items, like headbands, and that will be it for the booth.  The festival is this coming Saturday, so I will finish the headbands and turn my attention to the set up plans for the booth. 

A Little Halloween, A Little Christmas Festival

I will start with the Halloween things since I got some pretty nice shots of the kiddos in their costumes.  Such fun, and they all looked so nice.

Luke Skywalker (Joey) and Batman (Jackson).

Princess Leah (Lexi) with a sweet witch (Zoe).

Luke Skywalker with his sister, Leah.

The not so sweet witch with the super hero Batman.  Maybe Batman will have to save the world from the evil witch.

Luke, Leah, evil witch, and Batman ready for trick-or-treat.

With Halloween out of the way, I turned my attention to projects for the Christmas festival that will be on Dec. 5th.  I have decided to have a booth at the festival and I had nothing to put up for sale, so I have been working around the clock in every spare moment I have to finish some products.  Here are my accomplishments so far.

My sweet little Annie makes the cutest cow on the planet Earth. She loved smiling for me, but it was very difficult to get her to stay still and keep the hat on long enough to take her picture.  This is the best one I could get.

These are the hats that could go as a set with the accompanying toy.  I had patterns for the hats and the toys, although they were from totally different pattern books.  They looked so similar that I thought it might make a good combination.  The hats can sell separately from the toys, or they can go as a set.

I do have a cat pattern for a toy also, but I may not get time to make it to go with the cat hat.  I do not have a pattern for a knitted cow, but I do have a pattern for a cloth toy.  I may also make one of those later if I get time.

These are the two lady or older girl hats. The purple one is called a cam and just sits on the top of the head like a barrette. If this one does not sell, my granddaughter, Dot, wants it.  That is good because it is made from the same yarn that I used to make her Christmas sweater.  The gray hat is like the one that I made for me last year and so many people liked it that they had me make them one.  All of these hats, except for mine, are made from this same dark gray yarn.  The picture doesn't show the cable stitching too well.  Someone has already seen this hat and wants to buy it.

I think I really need to retake this picture.  These are my men hats.  The one on the left is just a ribbed hat that sits just over the ears.  The one on the right is a slouchy but it is hard to see it in this picture.

Some more toys that do not have matching hats.  This is the adorable little skunk wearing a flower to sweeten her smell.

This just shows the skunk from the back view so that you can see the flower better and also the stripe.

This nutty little squirrel comes with a winter hat to keep him warm.

View of the squirrel without the hat.

Side view of the squirrel so that you can see his tail.

2-year-old boy's hooded sweater zippers up the front.

12-18 month old cabled hoodie.

I am going to make some Christmas hats next.  If I get time, I would like to make some more men's hats and possibly some more animal hat, toy combinations.  I plan to also make some Christmas decorations out of plastic canvas.  I have not done that for quite a while and I think it would be fun to do for a change.  I may also make some of my cloth toys on the sewing machine.  We will see.  That might be too ambitious.