What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and the work flow. ~ Martin Luther

Thursday, December 29, 2005


A fleece shawl and beret I made for my lil' sis Adrianna.  Posted by Picasa

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh Rebecca! I just love this! You say you made it without a pattern? Please share how. I would love to make one each for Lydia and Elizabeth. I had fun reading all about your Christmas and can't wait to see more pictures. How much longer till peanut makes an appearance??? ~Jen

Abigail said...

You did such a great job on all your handcrafted gifts!
Dare I ask how late you stayed up that night? :)

And where'd you get the idea for little "mitten" hands on the shawl? If the idea originated in your own head, you're a genius!

Michelle said...

Yes, you have to share how you did this. I am afraid to make a hat without a pattern. It would probably turn out 3 sizes too big! :P

It looks very cute on her! Good job.

Rebecca said...

This might take a while...but here goes. The shape of the shawl I just fudged by folding it the way I thought it would look nice. I cut the neck opening (a bit too big for my tastes--my original plan was to add a straight collar but it proved too much of a challenge for midnight!) It helped to have a same-size model (CORYNN) to help me with sizing. I blanket stitched around the whole thing then added a button, buttonhole, and the mitten pockets. For the mitten pockets I traced around Corynn's hand leaving lots of extra room for seam allowance and "hand-slippage-innage". I have to say. I didn't come up with that myself. One day while I was shopping I saw in a window of The Children's Place a shawl with mitten pockets and thought-"HEY I will do that too!" I then just cut slits by the opening so she could slip her hands in there.

As for the hat-I measured Corynn's head and made the band that length plus two inches (to attach it together.) Then I found a similar style hat of Corynns'-traced the circle adding three inches then put running stitches in it. I gathered the stitches until the hole was the same size as the band circle-then stitched it.

Like I said, I was able to do alot of it by fudging it because Corynn was similar size but since you all seemed so interested, I looked online and here is a way to do it simply. Leave it to me to do it the 'hard way'!

http://www.fabriclandwest.com/Fleece_Country/Fleece/Beret/fleece_beret.htm

So there you go!

Jen-Peanut is due April 10th so I have three more months to go. I hope they go as fast as the LAST three months have!

Abby-I started my projects at 4 in the afternoon and finished at 11:30. Up until the time Corynn went to bed, though, I was interrupted quite often. I was ACTUALLY motivated to stay up even later to make the matching apron for myself-but thought that not a responsible decision given the fact that I would be staying up so late for the next few nights! :-)

Michelle-I had SO much fleece that I bought on super deal (for those baby buntings) I wasn't worried about it flopping because I could just cut more. That made it much easier on me. I love hats and want to learn how to make more. This is the first one I have done but it seems like they aren't TOO hard. :-)