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One More Fall Ensemble

I have one more fall ensemble and my Little Darling, Gina, is the lucky recipient before I go full steam ahead and create ensembles for Christmas and the holiday season.

I guess fall 2015 is the season of purples.  Here’s another ensemble with a shade of lavender and pink, but this one is different.  I don’t think I have ever seen a pink like this—cool, but muted.  Usually, muted pinks go towards the peach and this one doesn’t at all, nor is it a sweet pink.  It is so hard to explain; if I were to mix it up I’d take red and white to make pure pink, add a touch of blue to cool it down,  then add a bit of yellow, so it becomes a neutral.  Anyway, it is a very pretty and unique shade of pink.

I happened to have the perfect shade of muted lavender wool which matches the stems and vines in the print.  For the embroidery, I brought in the merlot color for the colonial knot berries and a coordinating shade of the pink for the bullion, lazy daisy, and back stitched vines and leaves.

I also had the perfectly coordinating shade of merlot heather wool to make a cozy scarf.  The scarf can be worn different ways.

Gina didn’t want flowers to hold, she wanted a soft and cuddly teddy bear, so I found this one in a burgundy red and knit him up his own muted lavender scarf with fringe.  The scarf is removable too.

sweet 'n cozy fall 271This print is very feminine, so lace accents and pearls went nicely with it.

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sweet 'n cozy fall 287For more information on Gina’s “Sweet ‘n Cozy Fall”, please visit my “Available for Sale” page at cindyricedesigns.com .

Thanks for visiting and reading about Gina’s new ensemble.  Bye for now!

The Parade of Sweetness Continues…

     Yesterday it was, “All Sugar and Spice”,  and today it is, “And Everything Nice” for the Little Darlings.

and everything nice 966Gina’s dress is a drop waist style with slight puffed sleeves.  The dress is hand knit in a blush pink Peruvian Highland wool yarn with many shades of pinks and reds used for the bullion stitched rose embroidery.  I embroidered the motifs in an asymmetrical composition where the drop waist begins.

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bullion rose embroidery 932Here is a closeup of the embroidery I did on Gina’s dress.

and everything nice 979The back of the dress buttons with raspberry colored glass pearls lined up all the way down to the hemline.

gina patsy sweater dresses 946Did you see Gina and Patsy together?  They have become good pals and both of them have made me promise that they will get to have more fun together again.

One more photo of sweet Gina in her new dress…

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Gina and I both hope you enjoyed seeing her in her cozy new sweater dress.

Have a great Sunday!  Fall is in the air!

Bye for now!

For more information on Gina’s “And Everything Nice” sweater dress ensemble, please visit my “Available for Sale” page at cindyricedesigns.com.

I’ve Been Busy…

I just realized that I haven’t had a blog post in September yet.  Yikes!

I have been busy though, really I have.

Here’s what’s been going on here in my creative little world.  We had some cooler weather a few weeks ago and that got me in the sweater weather mood.  However, it seemed as soon as I started knitting the first cozy sweater dress, hot and humid July weather came along and stayed for a couple of weeks, but I persevered and kept knitting anyway.  Yesterday, the hot weather broke and it is slowly getting cooler.  It is still quite humid though.  Anyway, I am collecting a stash of sweater dresses, so will have a bunch for sale one after another probably, so stay tuned.

I’ve made a sweater dress for Patsy, (I know it’s a shocker) and am finishing up one for the Little Darlings (the embroidery is pictured below).  Also, I am almost finished knitting a sweater dress for Millie (see the grape colored knitting below).

fall for sweater dresses b 876I have some tiny pumpkin dress/hat sets made for Amelia Thimble and Pukipuki, but am waiting to get another one completed too.

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Above is the embroidery on a drop waist sweater dress for the Little Darlings.  I pulled the bead pictured below for a possible bracelet.

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The grape colored dress is for Millie and the tiny orange one on the needles is for Amelia Thimble.

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See, I have been busy!  Thanks for hanging in there with me.  I’ll be back soon with some completed things to show you.  Hope you’re enjoying the month of September and these last couple of weeks of the summer season.