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“Sunshine & Posies” for Patience

Patience is all about summer sunshine and flowers, flowers everywhere. Doesn’t she look all bright and happy and ready to make you smile?

Patience saw the shrug that I made for Talyssa and Gina; she suggested that I make her one as well to complete this ensemble. Patience’s lace shrug is in buttercup yellow bamboo. Yes, this is the discontinued yellow bamboo that I have a very limited supply of, but it worked perfectly with this dress.

Here’s a close up of the hand beaded tuck on the hemline. The bright yellow seed beads brought out the tiny bit of yellow in the print nicely.

I love Patience in hats. This one is crocheted with three strands of cotton in two different weights of thread. The brim can be turned up, down, or a bit of both. The band matches the dress. I “free hand” crocheted (no pattern) the flower to coordinate with the shapes on the dress. It is a cup shape and filled with yellow beads for the stamens and has a curly apple green stem.

The elbow length shrug falls just above the ribbon bow in the back.

For more information on Patience’s “Sunshine & Posies” ensemble, please visit my “Available for Sale” page on cindyricedesigns.com .

“Red, White, & Cherries”

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Patience is showing off her patriotic side in her new ensemble, “Red, White, & Cherries”. Tuesday was a picture perfect kind of day here in northern Illinois so we took to the outdoors for Patience’s photo shoot.

I crafted a fun hair tie to bring to life the cherry motifs on Patience’s dress. I crocheted around lightweight pearl beads so the cherries would hold their shape, added a crocheted leaf, stems with the crochet thread, navy silk bow and a length of fine crochet to use as the tie. Patience seems to be enchanted.

I used pure white bamboo thread to knit Patience’s sweater. Some cobalt blue Czech glass crystal beads from my stash made the perfect buttons. I embroidered tiny red work cherry motifs around the bottom of the sweater.

Patience had the idea to pretend that the apple tree was a cherry tree to further the cherry theme.

It was a bit breezy, but the photo shoot was going smoothly until I turned my back on her for a second…

…and Patience starts to climb the apple tree. “Hey Patience, where are you going?”

I see London. I see France… (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)

For more information on Patience’s “Red, White, & Cherries” ensemble please visit my “Available for Sale” page on cindyricedesigns.com .

A Little Bit of “Vintage Flair”

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Patience has a cozy and sweet ensemble to show you today. It is made with a fabric that I HAD to order when I saw it. (Once in a while I find a fabric that I love this much.) Everything about it appealed to me from the way it reminded me of a Liberty of London print with a 1970s vibe to the beautiful pink and blue colors in my favorite shades.

I incorporated the print into a band for the crocheted hat.

I loved embroidering this sweater as I got to use yummy colors.

After Patience and I were finished with the photo shoot Izzy wanted to pose for a couple of pictures with her twin big sis. They are both Wilde Imagination’s girls and they both have long red hair. Aren’t they cute together?