Cutest freaking wreath ever!

I mean ugh, I made a modest wreath that I am pleased with.
When my sister was pregnant I had to figure out what to give her son Foster as a baby present and found this tutorial for a wreath, Jacinda at Prudent Baby, had put a little owl stuffie on the wreath and I thought it was too cute for words. I set out to remake the wreath but as always changed it a bit to make it mine. At the time I had no idea I would one day be blogging so there are no 'in progress' shots of it, We'll have to settle for as much detail as I can provide.

I picked out the colours based on Baby Foster's room Decor and ended up with 5 different colours; one of which is for the owl itself. You can use as few, or as many as you'd like. I want to do a Christmas version of this in silver, and blue (Perhaps I should celebrate Hanukkah, it has a much nicer colour scheme than Christmas) To start off I did a chain 20, turn, chain 1, single crochet 20, turn, chain 1... etc.

Here's a lesson on how to do a single crochet

I switched out the colours randomly. If your yarn is all the same weight then it will have a nice straight line, since I used yarns of different sizes it's quite wavey, but it's the back. Who cares! Keep going until you have enough to wrap around your wreath form. I don't remember the size of wreath form I bought, It was from Michaels and cost $6.99. Once you have a length of crochet long enough to wrap your form than crochet the two ends together, and hand sew, or do a single crochet, looping through both ends of the wreath cover to stretch it and pull it together along the back. Overall this process took about an hour to do. Nice and simple. You can leave it like this, You can add some feathers or flowers, a bow, or Seasonal ornaments.
 I decided to make an amigurami owl to put on top. I followed this pattern

If you try this Please Please Please send me a picture, I want to see how it turned out.
I appreciate comments. Thanks for checking it out.

Cuddle pad with tags and Paci Ring

If you have any Idea what this thing should actually be called then please, Let me know!

There's a lot of new babies being born right now so I am trying to come up with some easy, but cute gift ideas. If they don't break the bank then that's an added bonus!

What you'll Need:

• Square or rectangle of Cute cotton ( I used broadcloth from the clearance section $2.50/M)
• Square or rectangle of minke or fleece (Remnant 1/4M for $3)
• Ribbons (Leftovers from the Dollarama and Michaels)
• Velcro (On hand, I only needed 1/4")

Measure out what size of Cuddle pad you want, I traced a book that is approx. 9x11.5" but make it any size you'd like. Cut 2-3" lengths of ribbon, and one 6" piece for the pacifier strap.  I just cut approximate lengths. Fold the ribbon in half, hitting it with the iron will help it stay folded and make the next step a bit easier.





Pin the two pieces of fabric right sides together slipping a piece of ribbon inside the seam, leave a small opening for turning right side out. Sew all around the edge with a 1/4" seam allowance then turn rightside out.





Fold in the seam and push out the corners. Using a long pair of scissors or chopstick works great for this! Then sew a 1/4" seam all around the outside edge to extra secure all the ribbons and close the opening






For the Paci strap cut velcro the width of your ribbon and stitch on. You can also use a snap. BUT make sure to keep the ribbon nice and short. You don't want it long enough to wrap around babes neck. Safety first :-D





Play away!
If you decide to make this PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE send me pictures and let me know how it went!

My New Drug of Choice

.... Applique! For the first time Ever I appliqued, It's SO easy. Why on earth haven't my girls been wearing appliqued clothes everyday of their lives, it's so easy, it's so cheap (inexpensive ;-D), and it's Gorgeous!

 The goal of this was to make a 'tie shirt' for Beckam, Dan's friend's new baby boy. So I started Googling for a good tutorial, there were Tonnes, My favourite being this.  I went to Fabricland in search of Wonder-Under, the magic fusible web... they didn't have it, so I dug through the disorganized stacks of random interfacing I found Lite Steam-A-Seam 2. It's really thin and doesn't make a rigid shirt, perfect for baby clothes! My printer isn't hooked up since D just finished rebuilding our PC so I drew my designs to look pretty much exactly the same as these patterns.

First, Draw out the design on the Steam-A-Seams tracing paper, the side that is stuck to the web, roughly cut out. Iron, web side down to the wrong side of the fabric. Cut through all three layers (tracing paper, web, fabric), now is the time to be particular! When the design is cut out to your liking remove the tracing paper and place web side down on your onesie or shirt, Iron on playing particular care to the edges. Now you can leave it as is, or sew around the edges. I chose to machine sew 1mm in from the edge, this will keep the edges from curling after repeat washes. You can also Hand stitch, or do a back stitch using an embroidery thread. And last but not least, Oogle it's Adorableness!

If you try, Please Please Please Send me pictures and tell me what you made.