I tend to be very productive on Mondays. Yesterday I made this little scotty dog from one of the first Japanese craft books I ever bought, Stuffed Toys Easy to Make. I have wanted to try this dog for a while and was happy to find a good project for this lovely piece of plaid…
Archives for December 2005
Pletzel
It snowed here yesterday and we stayed in. Charlie and I both felt like baking and he suggested we try another pletzel recipe. A pletzel is like an onion roll made from the same dough as challah. When Charlie was a child his Grammie used to make pletzel, or pletzlach, and bring it over to…
2nd Flapper Girl Doll
I made another flapper girl doll with the same pattern I created for the first one. I used some of the scraps from the Plain Spoken quilt top I made for my yet-to-be-born neice, Emerson Rose. The beads on her boots are made from Sculpey and she has a cloth-covered button I made on her…
Monkey for Murphy
Here is the sock monkey I made for my friend Austin’s son, Murphy. This monkey came out a bit bigger than I expected. I’d like to try one made from baby socks. We brought him over to meet the baby yesterday afternoon. I forget how tiny newborns are, how much like a fetus they are….