kids away I must play

Sooo, with the kid off at 'school';  aka - daycare or as I like to call it, Mommy Sanity; and since my parasite within me has demanded another day of rest I pulled out some stuff to make cool stitch markers.  And I needed some photo's to send off for prospective classes I want to teach.

Stitch markers made with the hippie beads

 

 Had to pull out the animal beads, might remake some of these with fancier beads tho... And these have hooks so you can 'count' the number of decreases by attaching one marker to each row you decrease on.

Much fancier markers.  Somewhere in that garage are the few beads like these so I could make more. Alas the container with those beads are NOT where I left them, I blame gremlins.

And my ABC set.  My poor sister has been waiting years fro me to do a sweater for her with lots of different stitches that I will need these to keep me sane!

Is it me or are these photo's a bit off?  Somehow I think my camera has been played with by the kid or shall we say 'batman'...I may have to re-post these pic's after some adjustment to the camera settings and a small discussion on mommies toy versus kid toy.

Pin cushion sawppiness

I had an extremely hard time giving up this pin cushion.  In fact, I had to leave it at Craft Akron so I would not conviently forget it at home.

I made the pattern with muslim, put that together and stuffed it.  Then took 2 days to create the felted cover with merino wool from http://www.etsy.com/shop/GreenwoodFiberworks.  I handstitched it all together and then had fun making the bugs that crawl about on the pin cushion. 

I believe this was about 6 inches in diameter.  Not that I meant to make it so large but it just grew!

A dragonfly.  Soo cute, I need to add these to the flower barrettes I make, but I am not sure how they will hold up.

Top of the dragonfly.

Side view of the butterfly.

 Top view of the butterfly.