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DRAWING & PAINTING:
This is the yarn section of a big craft shop near where I live, and when
we are nearby, we often go in and walk up and down all the yarn aisles,
to see if we need to fill in any gaps in our colour supply.
Here is Blue Parrot rifling through the knitting cupboard and having
ideas for what he would like to have made for him. I think he might like a little
yellow scarf to wear round his shoulders. We always keep it all in lots
of small zipper bags, so it does not get bobbly or dusty when someone is
searching for a particular colour, and the little leftover bits stay
with the main ball.
Below are details for a Phone Bag, and some Christmas Charts
There are separate pages for making Tiny Ted, his jacket and his sleeping bag bed, and for Knitting Gardens and Knitting Scenery. The Knitting Gallery has ideas for other items.
Here is my over-the-shoulder phone bag for when we are sitting in the garden or greenhouse with our books or work, using the random colour yarn.
Here is another version, with purl stitches to make square shapes,
which could be decorated with yarn embroidery or Swiss Darning (also
called Duplicate Stitch). Start with a Moss Stitch border, knit to
length, do a folding row in Garter Stitch, then repeat the length up
the back, and then decrease to make a Moss Stitch triangle flap,
with a buttonhole at the tip.
You could make two of these, sew them together at the sides, and have just one larger triangle flap, in order to make a 3-compartment bag.
The strap is a Thick Chain in crochet:
Make a starting loop and make two more chains.
Insert the hook into the first starting loop, yarn over hook and pull a loop through (Loop A). Now there are 2 loops on the hook. Yarn over hook and pull through these 2 loops. Now the cord is started.
** Insert the hook into the loop below the one already on the hook, yarn over and pull through just that loop. Yarn over hook again and pull through both loops. Repeat from ** until the cord is long enough, always going into that lower loop first.
To help stop the bag stretching, make the cords longer and sew them right down both sides of the bag.
If you make one long and one short cord, you have the choice of carrying by hand, or over the shoulder, or you could add a another button to the top edge and make a special larger loop (like a picot) on the cord, so that you can shorten the cord when necessary. Try it on for size before finishing the cord and to stop it stretching too much, thread one or more plain lengths of yarn through the chain.
Tiny Ted says please don't wear it just round the neck, that's dangerous, even though it's only made of yarn! Just as I thought, Tiny Ted went to bed in it and stayed warm while it was frosty outside.
Here are some Christmas charts. As the lovely Christmas hats, socks and jumpers are not my size, I have put the best bits onto charts, so that I can make other things for me, Brown Teddy and Dino, and we can have our own colours. I would like to make a snowflake bag for my notebook and pencil for when I go out, or maybe to hold the phone.
All these could be put on the back of a mitten. You could just knit a square and sew it on existing mittens or a hat, and it would make them even warmer.
These snowflakes were on some slippers. You can see
Dino wearing the slippers
on this Diary page. The soles of these slippers did not last very long as
they were very cheap, so I have saved the knitted top parts and
washed them. I am going to cut two squares with a snowflake in the
middle, and join them to make a small shoulder bag, just my size. I
will need to find some dark red yarn to make a shoulder strap for
it.
Here is a piece of Christmas sock. I think I
prefer snowflakes against dark blue, like a winter sky. When the
sock feet wear out, it is easy to cut off the foot and neaten up the
long leg bit to make leg or arm/wrist warmers. I would never throw a
good snowflake away!
This is part of a jumper. I have given the
reindeer a bit more antler and a shorter tail, as real reindeer only
have stumpy tails.
These are socks. I have had to make some
guesses where all the stitches go, and I thought it would be better
for him to have an eye as well. I think I would put the reindeer
at each end of a long scarf, so that I can admire them more easily.
I like the narrow green stripes which must be their reindeer moss.
The red and black on the robin could be done by
embroidering stitches over the top, copying the way the yarn goes on
the knitted stitch. I have put fewer stitches for his front leg, as
real robins have very thin legs. I think I would like to add in some
dots in front of him, as little things for him to eat, or maybe a
few pink stitches like a worm!
This bow could be done all round a hat and I
think I would use a very bright red, yellow or blue.
You can use the space on your 404 page to help find missing people by embedding info from notfound.org See Yellow Teddy's 404 page
Where to report a lost or found teddy or
toy in
the UK:
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