Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Going back in time

 In January, while I was in England, I kept busy doing a bit of crocheting.

I had purchased a couple of balls of yarn from Fabricland with the idea of making the new twins something.

Luckily, there were two different balls of yarn.


I don't often crochet but I don't mind doing it.


These are the finished items - a ball of yarn, directions and a soft, stuffed head.


I thought this was interesting. 


It's a little hand impression on a soft, thick blanket. It was of one of the twins in England.


I saw this on the way to the park. It's a hanging basket of flowers - in January.

Tomorrow is Canada Day and instead of wearing the traditional red and white, a lot of people will be wearing orange to "honour the Indigenous children who were sent away to residential schools in Canada." My middle daughter got an orange t-shirt from a friend of hers but it was a large size. She brought it over along with a book that has instructions on 101 ways to transform a t-shirt.


Here's her sister wearing the t-shirt after I transformed it. I just cut off a large chunk from the hem, sewed it so it's thinner and then gathered the top part. I sewed the two pieces together and voila, an easy fix.

While doing some searching and cleaning, I came across some needlepoint that I had forgotten about.

There were actually two. I asked my eldest daughter, who lives in British Columbia in an area where there are a lot of mule deer, if she wanted them. 


They need to be framed and the buck actually should be cleaned first. I still have another 'oldie' that I made but it's quite slanted. It's a couple of pandas and I suppose I could finish it and give it to one of my grandchildren.

1 comment:

  1. The crocheted toys for your newest twins are sweet and will dry fast after being washed unlike many stuffed toys. Clever way to transform a big T-shirt for a smaller person. The opposite way would be much more difficult! I see your needlepoint projects are from the same Danish company where my mother bought patterns, mostly flowers.

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