I have been busy drawing out and sewing and cutting some Trauma dolls this morning, Tilli, less than clean, (luckily it is just on her back) decided that i should stop and give her some attention.
This months dolls are all cut out, 11 have been stuffed and 12 will be taken to doll club to be stuffed.
Look what arrived at my front door this morning, A wonderful parcel of woolen fabric from Jodie Carleton of Ric-Rac http://vintagericrac.blogspot.com/
I am working on a cream cardi at the moment, this is what i have made this week. 4 hats, 3 cardies, 6 pairs of booties and 4 trauma teddies. I would dearly love to do some sewing, i am missing doing that at the moment but i have run out of fiberfill, still it is my birthday next month and hopefully one of my kids will ask me what i would like, so fingers crossed!
Giant Cardboard Dinosaurs. Currently it is on only 1 thickness of cardboard. I will be gluing two or 3 layers together and tracing it out again to make it more stable.
This is half of the plans for the little wooden dinosaur i bought from Savers the other day and i have enlarged it on the computer and will be making it even bigger down at office works later on today. The cardboard is free from my local supermarket.
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These are the soft toys in progress to go with the knitted baby clothes and blankets.
This is a Tunisian crochet knee blanket.
This pram blanket is knitted squares of fluffy yarn mixed with cream wool and crochet together with cream wool. the cardi is acrylic.
This is the Charity update for this week, I have been busy knitting and crocheting. So far I have done 1 single bed blanket, 2 cot blankets, 3 pram blankets, 5 baby hats, a pair of baby boots, 3 baby jackets, two to finish off today. I will be making soft toys tomorrow, My plan is to make 10 sets consisting of a hat, jacket, booties a blanket and a simple soft toy.
Our cloth doll club called A.C.D.A. each month has a charity drive that is called Trauma Dolls. These are little pancake style cloth dolls made with calico. These dolls are made for the children who are having surgery and the procedure is shown to them via these dolls. The kids are then able to keep the dolls and this helps in their recovery. Our particular hospital goes through 30 a week. This is what I have been doing yesterday and will be finishing off today. I have sewn 30 bodies, 7 have been stuffed, 10 turned tight sides out, 13 ready to turn right sides out. I will be stuffing the rest today and I have some calico left that I will sew and cut out to take to the club to share with the girls, they will take one each home to stuff and bring back the following month.
This knee rug is turning into a small blanket, I love it! The colours are mixing right and I like the variegated ones that break the colours up.
