Remainder of the Christmas crochet
Monday, January 4, 2010 at 2:42PM Now that the holiday activities and travel are done, I finally have time to put up some pictures of the rest of the items I made for Christmas gifts.
This is a shawl I made for my mom. I made it from bamboo yarn with a bit of silk in it, and it is super soft!!
The pattern is called Aphrodite Shawl and is available for free online.
I also made some stuffed animals for my nieces. They each wanted a Snoopy...
A yellow lab puppy for Sophie...I bought the pattern on Etsy and unfortunately had problems making the legs. I spent so much time frogging them and redoing them. Then when I was down to the last leg I discovered I made a mistake in the previous one and made it a few rows too short...by that point I was so frustrated and couldn't bear to redo it, so I just made the 2nd leg to match it. It makes him more of a sitter than a stander, but I don't think Sophie really cares. Phew.
Last but not least, Cheer Bear for Nicki, from a Care Bear pattern book I have...as with Grumpy Bear I made for her birthday, I cheated and made the tummy symbols, eyes, eyebrows, eyelashes and hearts from felt and hot glued them on. I also didn't finish the feet the way they are in the book, giving them the look of having toes, but I didn't understand the instructions so I left them plain on both bears.
I also made a get well gift for my brother-in-law Dustin. There is a bit of a back story to this...a few years ago while visiting Dustin & Kristelle, we watched Willy Wonka (the Johnny Depp version) and found ourselves singing a catchy little tune from the movie. It has remained something of a running joke, and we still sing it. While Dustin was recently in the hospital with some health problems, I pondered what I could send as a get well gift. While browsing Etsy one night, I came across a pattern for the Mad Hatter, and figured I could alter it to make it a Willy Wonka doll. What would make it perfect would be if I could find a little music box to put in it that would play the Willy Wonka song when you squeezed it. Good luck finding that! As it happened, while I was checking out a craft supply website, I came across recordable boxes. BING! Problem solved. I ordered the box, and the 10 seconds it allowed me to record was just perfect to record the part of the song we always sing. Then I made up the doll, put the box inside, and voila, he was done. We ended up going to visit over the Christmas holidays, so I was able to deliver him personally. I didn't pose him very well, but you get the idea!
I took along some yarn and my hooks thinking I might work on some other things while we visited, but I didn't touch any of them. I don't have my next project planned yet, but I'm sure it won't be long til I'm back at it!
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