Christmas Pinafore Dress

Free pattern and instructions for a chrismas pinafore dress, size 24-36 months.

 

Knit an owl smart phone cosy

This cosy will fit the Samsung Galaxy smarthpone. To make this, get the free pattern here: 

free pattern

It's quick and easy to make.

Egg Cosy

Knit yourself this egg cosy:

 

You need:

1. a set of doublepointed 4mm needles
2. 2ply yarn in turcoise, red, green and yellow

The pattern:
co 44
rows 1-5: *k2p2, repeat from* (in turquoise)
rows 6-8: k (in green)

rows 9-12: k (in red)

row 13: k (in green)

rows 14-16: k (in turquoise)

rows 17-18: k (in red) = 44 stitches

row 19: *k9, k2tog, repeat from* (in red) = 40 stitches

row 20: k3, (*k2tog, k8) rep 3x from *, k2tog, k5 (in red) = 36 stitches

row 21: *k2tog, k4, repeat from* (in green) = 30 stitches

row 22: *k2, k2tog, k2, repeat from* (in green) = 25 stitches

row 23: *k3, k2tog, repeat from* (in green) = 20 stitches

row 24: *k2tog, repeat from* (in green) = 10 stitches

pull yarn though remaining 10 loops and pull tight.

Now it's up to you whether you leave it, make a pompom or in my case a flower. To get the flower pattern click HERE. 

Enjoy!

Sock Puppet

This sock puppet is lots of fun to make:

 

You will need:

1. clean old socks
2. pom poms
3. clolourful feathers
4. wire
5. buttons
6. hot glue gun
7. thread & needles (only to sew on the buttons)

Now get glueing! .... see more photos of the puppet further down ...

 Here the puppet already with a messy mouth. Alice tried feeding him bananas!

 

Have fun!

Bip For "My First Baby Annabel" (36cm doll)

Superquick and easy bip! Download the pattern here. Use some old scrap fabric and about 1 metre of bias tape to sew around the raw edges and use to tie the bip around the baby doll's neck. Now Alice's doll can't get herself all messy when Alice clumsily attempts to feed her ;-)

 

Baby Annabel Outfit

Doll's clothes are relatively expensive to buy in the shop and are ususally lacking in quality. If you are looking for a pattern and instructions to try and make a simple outfit consisting of a shirt, a pair of trousers and a bonnet for a 36 cm baby doll, then you will hopefully find it useful. It's free, simple and quick to make!

 

You will need:

1. fabric - again, an old shirt will do
2. lace (for the cuffs, collar & bottom of the trousers)
3. ribbon (to tie the bonnet with)
4. elastic for the top of the trousers
5. button for closing shirt at the back of the neck
6. download the patterns below:
• trousers (cut out 2 pieces of each)
• shirt (cut 2 pieces of each apart from the front - you only need one of it)
• bonnet (cut out 2 pices of each

Here are photos of all 3 pieces inside out, with threads still hanging off them to show you, how you need to pin and sew them together. Once done do as follows:

For the trousers: 

• fold the top of the waist over to the inside to create a tube to push the elastic through. Stitch the tube. Thread elastic through and sew elastic together.
• place the lace around the bottom of the legs and sew into place

For the bonnet:

• Fold the bottom of the bonnet to the inside, sew in place and thread the ribbon through.

The shirt:

• fold some of the lace in half and place around the neckline to cover the raw edge. Stitch into place
• pin lace around each cuff and stitch into place
• sew button onto neck opening and make a little loop on the opposite side to enable you to close it.

Enjoy & let me know if you have any questions!

Make your own sock monkey

Download instructions here ... to make this cute sock monkey. I had bought really long cheap stockings, that's why this monkey has such extremely long limbs and can be tied around Alice's waist.

 

... before I sewed everything together: 

Good luck & Enjoy!!

Cottage Door Stop

I've been wanting to make a few doorstops for a while, so set out with this cottage first. I'm hoping that Alice can also use it as a house to match her play mat. To make it more interesting for her, I made the door and windows to open. The whole house is made from scrabs of left over fabric, mostly Neil's shirts.

The door stop is 26 cm high. The measurements of the pieces below include a 1cm seam allowance on each side.

Download and print the pattern HERE ... alternatively cut out pieces as per below instructions.

This is what you need:

• 4 pieces of 18x23cm (wide walls) - 2 pieces for outer cover and 2 for "Inner house"
• 4 pieces of 7x6cm (single windows)
• 4 pieces of fabric 15x28cm (cottage height excl. roof 18cm) - 2 pieces for outer cover and 2 for "Inner house" - you will need to cut it so each piece has a square measuring 17cm high x 15cm wide and a triangle of 11cm high on top. (see downloadable pattern)
• 2 pieces 4.5x7cm (double window)
• 2 pieces 10*5x13cm (door)
• 4pieces 18x29cm (roof) (or 2 big pieces measuring 34x29cm)
• 2 pieces 14x23cm (inner house roof) (or 1 big piece measuring 26x23cm)
• 2 pieces 15x23cm (base) - 1 for outer cover and 1 for "Inner house"
• 6 buttons
• lace
• extra fabric for hearts and tree
• some cute fabric pieces to sew into the windows & door
• iron on backing
• toy stuffing
• rice, sand or dried pulses to add weight
• 34cm long zip

Start by gathering all the fabric bits and pieces that will be big enough fit
above sizes. This is my stash:

 

Make the "inner house". I don't know what to call this, but it's what will hold the stuffing. The nice cottage is like a pillow case that you could put into the washing machine. 

To make the "Inner house" you need from the list above:

• 2 pieces of 18x23cm (wide walls)
• 2 pieces of fabric 15x28cm (cottage hight excl. roof 18cm) - you will need to cut it so each piece has a square measuring 17cm high x 15cm wide and a triangle of 11cm high on top. (see downloadable pattern)
• 2 pieces 14x23cm (inner house roof) (or 1 big piece measuring 26x23cm)
• 1 pieces 15x23cm (base)
• toy stuffing
• rice, sand or dried pulses to add weight

 Now, sew all 4 sides right sides together just as you can see further down for the outer case. Once all 4 outer walls have been attached to each other pin the roof and stitch it on. Still inside out pin and sew the base on 3 sides, leaving one side open. Now turn your work inside out, fill it with your toy stuffing and sand (or rice etc) and sew up the opening so nothing can come out.

 

Now you can start on the cover. You need from top list:

• 2 pieces of 18x23cm (wide walls)
• 2 pieces of fabric 15x28cm (cottage hight excl. roof 18cm) - you will need to cut it so each piece has a square measuring 17cm high x 15cm wide and a triangle of 11cm high on top. (see downloadable pattern)
• 1 pieces 15x23cm (base) 
• 4 pieces of 7x6cm (single windows)
• 2 pieces 4.5x7cm (double window)
• 2 pieces 10*5x13cm (door)
• 4pieces 18x29cm (roof) (or 2 big pieces measuring 34x29cm)
• 6 buttons
• lace
• extra fabric for hearts and tree
• some cute fabric pieces to sew into the windows & door
• iron on backing - you need to cut a piece matching every piece of fabric used for this cover to make the fabric stronger and not so flimsy

Once you have everything cut out, iron the backing onto each fabric piece. Then, using blanket stitch, stitch your little faces, trees & hearts where you want them on your cottage. Blanket stitch around each window and door and sew one side onto your cottage where you want them to stay.

  

Now sew the 4 outer walls right sides together just like in this photo. Sew the walls together so they are enclosed. Join both sides of the roof using lace. My roof was made from the cuffs on Neil's old shirt. You could just cut on big piece saving you having to join the top of the roof sides together.  Still inside out attach the roof.

Pin and sew the bottom of the roof to the wide sides of of the house. Turn you work right sides out. Pin the slopes of the roof to the triangle of the narrow outerwalls. This roof is sticking out over the sides. This part is fiddely, so you might find it easier to handstitch the roof to the narrow part of the house (across the trianglar part of the side panels). I was too lazy and still managed to do it with my machine.

 

Once you've come this far, turn your work inside out again and stitch the base on on 2 sides (one narrow and one long side. Then pin on the zip for the other half (again one long and one short side) and sew into place.

 

Finally, before you insert the stuffed "inner house" you need to add button holes to the door and windows and once done, sew on the buttons.

 

 Now insert the stuffed house, close the zip ....

 

... and admire your house: :-)

 

 ... I had so little of the "Three Bears" Michael Miller fabric left that even Goldilocks needed to be pieced together from the fabric scraps .. but it's ok :-) ... see here:

 

 The little cottage ... voila ...

 

Enjoy making your own! xx

Two Finger Puppets - a knitted cat

Click HERE to download the pattern to make this lovely two-finger-puppet. It's the reason for why Alice can meow so well :-)

 

Enjoy ... it's quick and easy :-)

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