The SC & more n°295: First frosts

Ange asked us to make something to fend off the first frosts. When she published her post last week, I could not find any idea as it wasn't that cold yet, we still had about 16°C outside! Then suddenly over the weekend, winter came around and temperatures dropped to 0°C at night. My children did not need anything so I made something for their dolls.

Both T. and N. are happy about those new pieces of clothing, but N. wasn't too happy about the colours: there is NO PINK!

N.'s doll needs some warmer clothing, this summer dress is a little thin and short ;) but I don't know yet when I will have the time.

A picture for the Museum

Thanks Ange for this theme! And we will all meet again tomorrow for the next challenge on Isabelle's blog.

Cupcake Wrist-bag

I recently came across this pattern of a cupcake wrist-bag with doubles up as miniature cradle. I decided it looked super-sweet and wanted to test it right away for my children. I made several alterations: the cup part is shorter by 4 rows, I didn't want it too deep. The hood part didn't seem to work, so I made up my own pattern for that. If I make them again, I will make the strings a little bit longer (they are already 10 stitches longer than what the pattern suggests).

On the whole it was a rather interesting pattern and the result  looks rather nice. I'll probably try again with a different yarn, I want to see how it looks like with cotton yarn instead of acrylic.

Popsicle DIY

A week ago I got a really good tip on FB, instead of buying Popsicle sticks in a craft shop or on a craft website, I could go to the local pharmacist and get a whole pack of 100 pieces for just under 2€! On the next day I went to the pharmacist and got myself a pack :)

 I had no immediate plan of using them, but I liked the idea of just having them at home... I am a hoarder, you know. On the same day I put four sticks to soak and left them overnight. They don't bend super easily, but they still fit in a small glass.

Today we are having a rainy afternoon and the children were in a bad mood when we got home from the Kindergarten. So I decided we'd do some craft.

First we made two bracelets:

 And then we made dolls. Just using felt pens and imagination. N. , who will soon be 4yo, was really thrilled and she tried really hard to copy my first doll and after that she just let her imagination loose.

T., 2,5yo, scribbled a bit on two sticks. Although he IS able to draw people now, he did not make any effort at all. He preferred playing with the ones I had drawn already.

We now have a nice little family of dolls, mostly girls in pink though ;)

I also had a wooden box lying around, I quickly glued some fabrics and the dolls now have a house!

Cutting to make children

Time to play!

How do you like them? Unfortunately for me, T. and N. had fun making them, T. enjoyed playing 10min with them, but now the novelty is over and they are moaning again. I so dislike rainy days!!

Babies pouch... once more!

I am close to be done with those pouches now. One more for my son next year and one more for my God-daughter and then I'll stop making them. Well... at least for a while ;) I am starting to really enjoy myself while making them. I play with fabrics and colours and the theory on how to put the zipper, in which order to sew which piece etc. isn't a problem anymore.

 This one was made for my youngest niece. She is 2,5yo and was getting quite jealous of her sister's pouch. Now they can play together :)

Doll bibs

For her birthday N. got a highchair for her dolls. It is now standing next to her toy kitchen. But the dolls also needed protection, they might have made stains on their clothes while eating ;) 

So I made some bibs:

Felt Garden

The last two posts have shown you what cuddly toys I had made for my nieces L. and M. for their birthdays (both summer girls!). I like both toys, but I never intended them as the "main" present.

Actually the main present is this: a felt garden. Two to be precise. I mixed up several ideas seen online.

In each garden the girls will find two radish, two baby carrots, two leeks, two flowers, two mushrooms and a small doll. One doll has long straight-ish hair, this is L. , the other one had shorter and curvier hair, this is M. :)

I will soon be working on making such a garden for my children too, they've been asking for it and they love planting and plucking vegs and flowers. How do you like it?