Inspired by Elsa Mora's book Blossom Buddies we decided to make some Nature Fairies of our own.
This is Esme.
Mimi
and Lela.
Then Brae made a bug
And a skirt and dress
We had a blast. Make some fairies of your own before all the greenery is gone!
I am a little behind on taking crafty pictures. I finished a few more projects, but I was struck with a migraine the night before last that didn't completely leave until this morning. I am finally feeling much better and I want to show you some of the Fall beauty I came across on my walk this week.
I think he is destined for a Thanksgiving dinner table.
I love seeing beautiful photos of other blogger's neighborhoods that change each season. It is so cool to see the change all over the world through the eyes of such a wonderful blogging community that I am so thankful to be a part of. I love all my readers and appreciate all the great comments I get. Thank you all so much for being such a supportive and inspirational group of people!
One more Christmas gift finished. I am on a roll this year! I might actually get everything done... maybe I should knock on some wood or something, so I don't jinx myself.
I am modeling this lovely hat myself and my happy friend Wes took the pictures. This is the Foliage Hat from Knitty. It is knit with Knit Picks Wool of the Andes Bulky in the color Sky. Which means this hat cost me $3.99 plus a blissful few hours of knitting. I am definitely making another one. I have two skeins of this same yarn in a different handpainted colorway. I think I am going to make this hat with one skein and matching mitts with the other.
Once I got past the beginning, which requires your undivided concentration. The rest of the hat is pretty easy for a lace pattern. It is something that you do after the kids go to bed, but before you are too tired to think.
I finally bought another ball of yarn to finish the owl hat so look out for those pics in the next couple days.
I took a break from embroidery to work on holiday gifts. I am so happy to be getting started early since we will be moving in January. I will be doing a lot of traveling right before Christmas and I won't have time for finishing gifts. This hat is for an older man.
My husband volunteered his head for this photo. He gave this hat 2 thumbs up!
I also finished another sock. Note that is singular; still have one more to go.
I am still trying to get the pattern exactly right. This time I forgot to do the second row of knitting after each toe decrease. I am just being impatient. Lucky for me, I have small feet.
I have started keeping track of my knitting projects over at ravelry.com. You can find my page here. Happy Crafting!
Its time for turkey! I love Thanksgiving. My husband, being part Native American, has a love hate relationship with it. He says that as long as we are celebrating the season, the harvest and all the prosperity we have had the past year then its okay. If you start getting into Indians saving Pilgrims and long dinner tables full of food in 1621 then he starts getting sick to his stomach. Check out the history of Thanksgiving for more about the origins of this holiday.
I love Thanksgiving food and the chance to catch up with friends and family. Tom and I try to focus on what we have gained over the last year. What was our "harvest"? Every year we have goals for ourselves and for our family. At Thanksgiving we celebrate how far we have come to reaching our goals and we start planning for next year.
So enough about me, onto the patterns!
I went on a long search for Turkey Day patterns and here is what I have. If you know of a pattern that isn't listed please leave it in the comments so I can add it to the list.
Free Turkey Day Embroidery Patterns
-Turkey, I Love You by Barbara Parrish
-Pumpkin and Sunflower Pattern
-Thanksgiving Turkeys and Word "Thanksgiving"
-Seasonal Kids from PatternBee
-More Vintage Patterns from PatternBee
-1891 Ingalls Thanksgiving Pattens
-Google Thanksgiving Coloring Pages Search - Its awesome!
I found very few completed embroideries for Thanksgiving. I am working on a pattern list of Thanksgiving embroidery patterns from around the net so look out for that in the next couple days. Hopefully we will see some more turkeys in the days to come.
1. Autumn Wreath embroidery, 2. Tired Turkey Embroidery, 3. squirrels: the acorn fairy stitchette, 4. Hibernating Bear,
5. Brown Tumbling Leaf Embroidery, 6. hello, autumn, 7. acorn embroidery, 8. Bunny stitch along close up,
9. autumn bird, 10. hosten3, 11. The Guardian (Palomino), 12. AMBER WAVES OF GRAIN.....,
13. Wild Turkey Pillows Custom Embroidery, 14. Squirrel Friend, 15. Fall Embroidery, 16. Finished Turkey Towel
Halloween was lots of fun. My little one dressed up as a ballerina. She didn't want to get a tutu so we used her ballet costume and she picked out stockings, a crown, and a star wand. She dug the black ribbon around her waist out of my ribbon drawer for her "sash". Her leggings are the sleeves of a felted wool sweater that still had a little stretch to it. I just cut the arms off and put them on her legs! Easy as that. They fit perfectly. She picked out the color. I tried for pink but lost.
Onto crafty things... I finished another embroidery. This one is eventually going to be framed in a 6 inch wooden hoop. Jo-Anns is 45 minutes away so its going to have to wait until I go to town again. The Owl Embroidery is in the same boat. I need a certain color thread to finish it.
The house and workshop were done in backstitch. The trees were done in split stitch. Seed stitch for the grass. The moon and mailbox are in satin stitch.
I am working on a pattern for a Thanksgiving embroidery based on a vintage Thanksgiving postcard. I am about done with the pattern and I cant wait to start stitching it.
Hope you had lots of treats and few tricks this Halloween!
Got it finished! I wish the pictures were a little better, but I didn't take them until this evening and the light was terrible. I had to use a lamp to get enough light. I love how his eyes turned out.
I figured out the teeth as soon as I finished the outline of the mouth. It was an "duh, of course" moment. Tom didnt like how I had the nose on the original pattern and I have to agree after stitching it. I am making a couple of changes to the pattern. It will be posted on flickr in the next day or so. I chose the same bright colors that you would see on a real sugar skull. I had the opportunity of decorating a great Day of the Dead altar last year with some friends so I had lots of inspiration.
Isn't that the coolest bread! Those are supposed to be bones crossed on the top. Its a Mexican bread traditional on Dia de los Muertos.
The photo is me in 8th grade with my dad who passed away in 2005.
Hope you all have a happy and safe Halloween!
