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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!

Grape Crush

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Growing up I loved anything grape flavored: lollipops (or suckers, as we called them), grape soda (Grape Crush was the best), popsicles, Kool-Aid. I even liked the grape flavored cough medicine. I must have over dosed on artificial grape flavoring and purple coloring over and over again; we had no idea back then that it might not be good for us. My mom did limit our sugar consumption, so that, at least was a good thing.

Why am I talking about grape? Well, this yarn that I used to knit Millie’s new sweater dress reminded me so much of all things flavored grape and I didn’t need to consume anything potentially bad for me in the process. It is a gorgeous purple heather: hot pink, raspberry, navy blue, and tints of purple make up this most dimensional yarn. Even though I loved this yarn on its own, when I added the vibrant colors of embroidery this yarn came alive.

Millie’e eyes are Glib in slate blue. In real life they look like they look puple-ish when paired with this dress. You can find them here. I cannot say enough about how much I love this wig on Millie. You can find it here. Millie wears a 6-7 wig and this one is in pale pale blonde.

Millie’s short sleeved wool sweater dress nips in at the waist and then has a slight flair to the skirt. It is shorter in length to look cute paired with tights. These tights are in a light weight raspberry heather cotton knit; I love it when I find the perfect color in my stash.

If you’d like more information on Millie’s “Fall for Purple” sweater dress ensemble, please visit my “Available for Sale” page at cindyricedesigns.com.

Bye for now!