What do you do with a load of Christmas fabric…
and some embroidery hoops….
you make festive wall hangings
I’ve held out for long enough, the festive season is around the corner so it’s time for some Christmas posts. These are some napkin rings that I started for last Christmas but only finished yesterday.
These gorgeous buttons came from Helsinki and they are just sewn onto a simple ring of crochet as follows:
- Chain 31
- Row 1 - 4 SC in second chain from the hook, SC across (30)
- Join the ends and sew on the button
After last year’s mammoth task of making nearly all my Christmas presents I wasn’t so brave this year. I am making some of them but not as many as last year (phew!!) I did manage this scarf for my other half’s Grandmother though.
This is a variation on my standard crochet scarf, I just did a few extra rows of double crochets and used a fine cotton yarn.
I’m working on some ornaments at the moment so I should be back soon.
So I decided that the finished object cannot be called Snoopy, he does bare a resemblance to the famous cartoon character but he is now named Tom!
This is Snoopy
Image from Wikipedia
And these are some shots of Tom
Cute? Yes. Snoopy? I’m not convinced!
This was Snoopy at the weekend……
I’m in the process of finishing him off as we speak however I am in fear at this stage he’s looking like a very cute white dog but not enough like Snoopy. More pictures later in the week.
I recently bought a pattern for this Snoopy toy on Etsy and I’m about to make a start on it now.
The Etsy seller in question is on holidays at the moment so there are no patterns for sale but check out the blog in the meantime. Wish me luck 
It was well worth the visit and if you’re interested in any crafts I would recommend it for next year. They had plenty of card making and jewellery making supplies as well as fabric, yarn and other bits and bobs. Here are some of the things I brought home.
Yarn from This is Knit - I plan to do some gloves and a scarf from this.
Ribbons for Christmas Present Wrapping.
Extra supplies for Christmas Card making.
I’m off to Dublin tomorrow for the Knitting and Stitching show…….woohoo! It should be a craft nerds dream.
This little sampler is something I made a few weeks ago when I fancied some needlework. I had seen lots of examples of this slogan and I wanted to do something with it for ages. I made a “frame” from some pink card to match the embroidery floss. I found the charts for the letters on-line but for the life of me I can’t find the website now. I’ll update the post if I find it. After taking the photo above I popped the sampler and frame into a 6×4 clip frame and it was ready to display.
Update: I know it came from this page but I can’t remember which one I used
Don’t worry I didn’t actually fish this out of someone’s bin but it did almost end up in my own bin. I got this jacket in Dunnes about two years ago, I love the fit of it and in fairness it served me well in interview type situations. At this stage I was just plain tired of it but I couldn’t really justify throwing it out. This is where the ladybird trim I showed you earlier came to the rescue…..and a red button.
Buying ribbon is one of my favourite things about being a craft enthusiast. I love how it is stored on giant spools and I swear, I get butterflies when I see it being measured out. Oddly I prefer to buy ribbon in yards rather than meters. The imperial system seems austere and grand compared to the mathematical metric system.
Here is a shot of some of my ribbon stash.
My ladybird trim was a birthday gift from my friend Mary B, the ladybirds on the pink ribbon were a gift from my friend Margaret. Most of the rest of what you can see in the photo came from a gorgeous shop in Dublin called Rubenesque. You’ll find the shop on South William Street and you’ll know it by the ribbons hanging from the door and railing. It was like a wonderful, colourful sweetshop….only with ribbons instead. Easier on the hips!
Here’s a closer look at that canvass ribbon with the crafty theme.
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