Monthly Archives: September 2015

A “Bitsy Pumpkin Patch”

I know that I’ve been talking Christmas, Christmas, Christmas all week. Let’s get back to reality for a bit…

Here’s the first of my teeny tiny dress/hat sets. This one is made just for Wilde Imagination’s Amelia Thimble and Izzy dolls.

I knit this dress and hat out of lace weight merino/silk yarn that I dyed to a light pumpkin color. I added five bullion stitched pumpkins, tiny brown stems, lazy daisy green leaves, some blades of grass, and yellow blossoms along the hemline (Amelia has a little corsage blossom on her left shoulder too). For a different look, this hat is a bit “less deep” than the other two in the series and sits more atop the head. Like the others, it has a fuzzy mohair stem, crocheted leaf, and curly tendrils.

“When are we visiting the pumpkin patch?”, asks Amelia.

Time for a rest… this modeling business is hard work!

The “Bitsy Pumpkin Patch” dress/hat set (the dress on the right) is now available for sale on my website, click on the “Available for Sale” page when you get there. (The middle dress, for Pukipuki, and the Amelia Thimble dress on the left will be available in the coming days.)

Oh, I did get some sewing done yesterday. I now have my first Christmas dress made along with the sweater and hat. Now, for the fun and creative part–adding the finishing touches and making everything “just so”.

Bye for now! Thanks for reading.

Hope you had a great day!

This and That…

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My tiny pumpkin dresses are all finished. There are two for Amelia Thimble and Izzy, and one for Fairyland’s Pukipuki. I still have to write website pages for them. They will probably be available for sale one at a time, so stay tuned.

Talyssa got her bangs cut yesterday. I was looking at photos of her on Pinterest (I’m not sure who to credit with the photo) and was captivated by this photo of her with bangs. I think it makes her look a lot younger, and cuter.

Who likes spiders? I like that they are good for the garden, but I find them creepy, to say the least. I looked out the window yesterday evening and in the middle of a 3′ x 3′ (at least) web sat this HUGE spider. After I took the photos, I went back out with a ruler, he was gone. I am guessing him to be about an inch long, the biggest that I’ve ever seen. Anyone know what kind of spider this is? My daughter and husband couldn’t believe how close I had to get to him to take this picture; I didn’t have a zoom lens on my camera, so he was about a foot away from the camera!

September is National Sewing Month and the only things that I have sewn this month are three pair of tights! Sew… I am going to sew today! I need a dress to go with the Christmas sweater and hat that I have been working on.

Bye for now! Hope you have a great day!

Green and Red

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After showing you my stack of Christmas fabrics in Monday’s post, I picked out two of them to start my holiday ensembles. I picked out my favorites, so I would have the best possible chance of getting in the holiday spirit. (I’ll share with you what those two favorites are soon.) Yesterday and this morning were spent knitting a sweater and hat to go with the first fabric that I picked out. So far so good…I’m making progress. In the meantime, I went through my studio and snapped more photos of all things red and green.

Off the subject, but continuing with the green (and a bit of red) theme…

Did you know it’s National Guacamole Day? I love avocados and try to eat a few every week. However, the grocery store that we shop at was completely out of avocados last Friday. This is a big grocery store with a huge produce department and they didn’t have one avocado for sale, very strange. I wonder if they were being hoarded by someone in anticipation of National Guacamole Day. Hmm…

To help tie these two very dissimilar subjects together, here’s the Grinch (Christmas) made out of guacamole (avocados)! If you click on it, it will enlarge and take you to Pinterest where you can pin it, if you’d like.

Hope you’re enjoying Wednesday. Summer is back here in northern Illinois and tomorrow will be even hotter.