Christmas is over

Well, we took an extended Christmas break (Dec 1-Jan 17).

We're back at it and working at creating some new products.

The other day I got the opportunity to test a pattern for Micah Makes. She has some of the most adorable crochet patterns.

I was able to test her Houndstooth pattern. I made it in Julia's size.









I've got plans to make it in a few other colour combos before I list it for pre-sale and sale. :) I think it's a super cute pattern!

WIP

Some projects that I'll be working on in the next few weeks:

For a friend's daughter:

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For a friend:

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For another friend:

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For Julia:

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For Paisley:

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I'm hoping to get them all done before mid-January... here's hoping!

Custom Orders

Some custom orders that went out the door last week:

A girly sock monkey hat and mitten set:



A bright coloured textured hat, mittens (on a string) and slipper set:



And a brimmed visor hat, football hat, and matching boot slipper set:



Such fun sets!

We may not have mittens listed in the shop, but we can usually do matching mittens for any of our hats ($15-$25)

New Skirt for Paisley

I made Paisley a new skirt for her "special day" at school Being so close to Christmas, I thought a Christmas skirt would be fun. She picked the fabric for the one side (and I picked some for the other to make it reversible). She loved it when she got up this morning.

Her choice was this:



My choice was this:


And it twirls! A requirement at this age!


I didn't use a pattern for this one... just made it really full. I still need to stitch the bottom edges together... as you can see a bit of the red peeking out the bottom. But I love it, it's so cute! Plus it's so big she'll get about three Christmases out of it... and Julia can get 3 out of it ;).

Handmade Christmas

We made the decision this year to do a handmade Christmas. The last couple years, we've tried to make quite a few gifts, but always bought more. This year I want to simplify, teach my girls to be content with what they have and enjoy all the awesomeness of handmade. We are not buying into that whole one BIG gift and a bunch of little gifts for each kid. Our girls have more than what they need. Last year I think everything other than a couple toys were handmade, by me or someone I bought it from, but I'd like to make them all myself this year.

I still have plenty of work ahead of me before Christmas, but I thought I'd share some of the gifts I'll be working on.

For my girls, I am making a dress up centre. We have so many dress up clothes around the house... they need a home. I also hope to sew up some new dress up clothes to put in it!

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I'm going to try my hand at making soap and a few other bath products:

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I made a few batches of jam this summer to give (strawberry, peach and grape) but plan to also make Carrot Cake Jam and Christmas Jam:

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I will also be making a variety of goodies to put in gift baskets:

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So much more.... but that's a little bit of what our next month or so will be busy with. Are you making any gifts this year? What are you making?