Dress-up Crowns!

I found this pattern in a Creative Knitting Magazine and just had to make up a few my girls. So I found some lovely purple singles yarn from Brown Sheep. I think I ordered from the US with some green yarn I intended to turn into a felted coat (it hasn't happened yet).The red trim is some discount yarn I got from Micheal's many years ago. I had bagged it at one point to be donated but of course like a true hoarder I just couldn't get rid of it. I think it did a good job.

I ended up making one as a present for a friend of my oldest daughter who loves to play dress-up. 

The bombs

I made these several months ago - I was and am still not happy with the photos but I wanted get back into my blog!

My 4 year old daughter requested I make her a rocket bomb. And below is what I came up with. It is made with wool yarn, of course, from my stash! She wanted something that looked like the rocket that Sid used on Buzz Lightyear in the first Toy Story.

While attending a craft night in my neighbourhood and discussing the rocket a friend suggested making a classic cartoon bomb (she also thought it would like sweet with an 'F' embroidered on). Below are the two versions my stash enabled me to create.

The classic cartoon bomb lead my hubby to suggest a stick of dynamit which in the photo I admit does not look all that much like dynamit but it still is fun to throw!