baby bear with cap for child to wear

I made this for my lil niece, the bears hat comes off and can be worn by the lil child. I'm planning a boy design also. Maybe with little boats on the hat or stars. This version has crocheted black roses on it.

Knit Baby Caps

Just came up with a cute little hat for newborns with leftover yarn I didn't want to waste.


Here the ear flap is folded up, you can see the inside of the hat:


Here the ear flap is down:

Here is the hat with ear flaps up from the front view:

Here with earflap's down from the side, sortof:
It looks kinda like something a Sherpa would wear.

finish these darn sleeves

Here is the sleeve after the bias tape was sewn on. Looks so much better.

Sleeve prior to bias tape.

Amigurumi

These are my latest pets for sale on ebay under seller name: knightlife999

x mas gifts

Here's some of the gifts I made by hand for loved ones this past x mas.

some x mas gifts

I crocheted all these cute lil creatures as x mas gifts in amigurumi style. They are so adorable.

Amigurumi gifts

Here's one of the many gifts I've made by hand so far this Christmas.

"Peekaboo" says Bumpiddy Doo!

During the Victorian Era it was common for girls and ladies to make things by hand as gifts, such as doilies, back splashes for vanities, etc. Recently I've discovered a Japanese style of crochet called Amigurumi. So I am designing all of my gifts in this style of crochet! Bumpiddy Doo is a gift I have just finished for my sister, it is a surprise so I will not post complete photos of him till after she has received him.

This is an illustration from the cover of 'Illustrated London News' 1876.

This is an anonymous illustration of a mother and child making gifts.

Made this screen saver today.

Best Victorian hairstyle's I've found so far.

fake daguerreotype

This is a CDV/daguerreotype image transform I did recently for a photographer in the Netherlands.

Here is my portrait as a daguerreotype also.

This is what the original photo looked like before I transformed it with my trickery.

Newer version of my moldering antique portrait, was going for that musty Carte de Vista look or fungus riddled cabinet photo.

1880 bustle bodice repro

This is a shot of me making the pleats for the bodice hem.  I used 100% cotton duct, basically black canvas I wanted the garment to be durable and washable.

The following is my adaptation of the 1880 bodice pattern I found at www.koshka-the-cat.com

Detail of buttons and buttonholes.

I decided to use pleats instead of tabs like the original.

Back panels.

The finished bodice with my beautiful kitty's fur all over.

Steampunk embroidery stuff "stitchfinger"

An idea I came up with after picking up embroidery again recently. The project took me a few days, and it was quite painful at the end of the day. So I thought of these. Have yet to make them.

www.koshka-the-cat.com

A website by an amazing seamstress. I am currently recreating this pattern

here.

I will post photos later.

I found this wonderful book at the library. "Victorian Women's Fashion Cuts" selected and arranged by Carol Belanger Grafton 1993 Dover Publications


www.VictorianNonsense.com

Step eight: Continue around the first two stitches [petals] to make the rest of the rose.

Step seven: Making more petals for bullion rose.

Step seven: Finish coil with a stitch where the coil ends.

Step six: Use needle to arrange coils as you tighten the thread.

Step five: Stabilize twirled thread as you tug the last of the thread so it coils nicely.

Step four: Nearly finished with pulling thread through the twirled thread.

Step three: Stabilize thread twirled around needle with finger while pulling thread through.

Step two: twirl thread around needle 5 times.

Step one.

Skirt hem border.

Hem design map.

Embroider design detail, I use the bullion rose [bullion knot] for the hem, not sure what to call the stitching that makes up the square? I just made it up as I went along.