>gloves to bow
28 Mar 2011 Leave a Comment
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I started to make a pair of lace gloves Sunday made out of size 40 thread and a size 14 steel crochet hook. It just kept not being right but I kept working at it thinking it is my imagination It is a pattern I have not done before so I just don’t know where it is going yet right. Once I got the front of 3 fingers done on both hands. I just kept looking at them thinking these still look a little big and even if it has a mesh that goes around the back of the fingers that will pull them tighter and shorter it is still not going to be right. So debating if I wanted to frog 8 hours of work and start over well I decided I would start over. I couldn’t bring myself to frog what I had done to much time with such small thread. So then I debated on putting it in my sampler book as just an oh well learning experience sort of memory. Then I was playing with it and decided that it would make an OK bow for my kids hair. So I got out an elastic for the hair and stated crocheting it too it and pulling the back of the hands parts in and left the finger parts dangling for ribbon tails for the bow. This is probably the most expensive hair item I have ever made on accident. I have made things much more elaborate for the hair that I meant to make and so it was expected. But when I thought I was making me new fine lace gloves for Easter and I end up with a little girls hair bow something just seems missing. 
I will go back to making those gloves again. But probably not till Saturday or Sunday when I sit down to watch the LDS General conference meetings with my family. In the end I get happy children as they get a new item to wear that mom made so all is good with hugs and kisses from three little girls who get something new. Wish I had taken a picture of it before I turned it into the bow so you could see from where to where it went. When I make the next set I will stop at the point that I was at and post what these looked like before it became a bow. Images from Beetlejuice keep going through my head now. If you have seen the movie you might know why.
here are the photos of what the fingers of the glove looked like before becoming the hair bow.
>peter cotton tail progress
27 Oct 2010 Leave a Comment
in embroidery, holiday:easter, needlework
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peter cotton tail progress, originally uploaded by sunshine’s creations.
>My sister’s flowers
12 Apr 2010 1 Comment
in holiday:easter, nature
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The above photo was taken by my husband all the rest in this post are taken by me.
What we had in our yard over Easter was snow.
Amazing what driving 5 to 6 hours south does for the climate.
>14+ yards of garland
12 Nov 2009 2 Comments
in holiday: St. Patricks day, holiday:christmas, holiday:easter, yo-yo
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I had tons of green yoyos sitting around and about 1 year ago I made short garlands out of them. Well yesterday I decided that they are not very useful in short lengths so I joined them all together to make this one very long garland that is over 14 yards in length. Now to figure out where to hang it for the holidays and hey it would work for St. Patricks day too.
Here is a cute Christmas tree made out of yoyos and some Easter eggs too.
>Easter bunny house
16 Apr 2009 1 Comment
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The very top photo is of the box front, the other two are what my kids did. It may not be as fancy as the one in the picture, but who wants to eat a cookie house after you take a photo of it sitting in the grass with strategically placed freesia (the yellow flower in the photo on the box)? So I think this is better, no bugs have crawled on it for a pretty photo and the kids still want to eat it.
>Easter Dresses
13 Apr 2009 3 Comments
in holiday:easter, sewing
>Well, all the dresses and pantaloons are finished and they got to wear them on Easter. The middle daughter decided to share her lace, so all three dresses have hand-crocheted lace around their bodice that the middle daughter made. I snapped the photos before they got done getting ready to go to grandma’s on Monday (we had a delayed Easter because of weather).
Youngest:
Youngest showing off pantaloons:
Middle:
Oldest:
All three:
>Home repairs in the works
12 Apr 2009 2 Comments
in corners of my home, holiday:easter
>This is what my husband, my brother-in-law (Seth), and I did on the Saturday before Easter. The colors of these primers in the photos are a half tint, so the rooms will be much darker when finished. My husband grew up in a house painted all white. The one exception was his bedroom; it was the only room painted a color (blue, about the shade of blue the bathroom is in these photos). I grew up in houses with wall paper, meaning lots of color and designs on the walls. It has always bothered me that we have lived in homes that are all one color. So, since we have to re-do our old home, we decided we would add color to the house. My husband still isn’t fond of wall paper, so we compromised; lots of color in paint. We will have white trim in all of these rooms. We have already painted the ceilings ultra pure white, much better than the dirty eggshell color that was there before. (By the way, the color you do see on the walls in the masking photos is what our tenant put up, and I hate the colors — very dirty, muddy colors.)
Masking up the house:
Kitchen.
View from front room to kitchen.
Girls’ room.
Master bedroom
Upstairs bath.
Front room (gotta love the make-do painter’s stilts. My husband wanted to buy some real ones but couldn’t find anyone who had them in stock locally).
Oops, it broke!
Kitchen.
Kitchen hall washroom= sunshine yellow (gotta love the colors name). I picked this color.
Girls room = periwinkle; youngest daughter picked this color.
Master bedroom = hunter green; husband picked this color.
Upstairs bathroom = china blue; husband picked this color.
Front room = crimson red; I picked this color.
This room isn’t primed yet because it and the kitchen over lap walls because of bull nose corners, so we have to have the kitchen completely painted and masked before we can even start to paint this room. The primer for this room is gray because you do not use pink as a half tint for such a dark red color.
It looks like the Easter bunny attacked my husband’s head. It is round, like an egg, but much scarier painted.
>to make you happy
09 Apr 2009 2 Comments
in holiday:easter, video
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I am still doing demolition, now on the stage of painting, and working at the flower shop. Not much crafting other than trying to get three little Easter dresses made. The one dress that is complete has a 21-yard hemline, yikes! Well that’s what I get for making a dress without a pattern and just having fun. A nice, twirling dress for the oldest. Two more to go with the same pattern (or lack of pattern), just making them out of my head. I purchased a Mossimo shirt for going under all the dresses. Not all three are going to be identical; my middle daughter wants me to add some crochet lace she has made. They all have an underskirt, so when they spin they are still covered. The underskirt is white with eyelet trim; they also all want pantaloons which should be easy enough to make using this tutorial as the concept for the construction. The dress actually hangs straight, but my daughter has it hanging on the hanger all wonky. The fabric was found at DI for $3.00 a bolt( got two bolts). DI is a local thrift store. Two bolts with over 17 yards of sheer mint green fabric on each bolt, the liner was given to me and the eyelet trim was also found at DI, so all totaled the three dresses will cost about $10 for all, not counting the price of the shirts because they can be worn with other stuff. Even if I do count them, it is still under $35.00 for all three dresses.
