Christmas/festival Projects started

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.

This is a pair of men's gloves (my first pair) and a pair of wrist warmers for women.

My first pair of women's gloves.  Fingers seem a little too short so I lengthened the next pair.

This is a beret slouchy hat that matches the gloves above from the upside down view.

This is the top view of the beret slouchy hat.

This is the beret slouchy on a head model.

This is a pair of women's gloves with a newsboy beanie to match.

Side view of the newsboy beanie.  Looks a little better than the front view.

Close up of the newsboy beanie shows the rolled brim in the front and the textured look of the body.

These are my adorable hippo, elephant, and rhino made from the fluffy, soft baby yarns.  I have one more to make.

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.

These are the two dresses I made for her.

This dress is 100% cotton and so will wrinkle, but I had to use this material for what it says.

Sizing up the Grandma dress (she wouldn't put it on)

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.