Here are some pics of the gifts I made for family and friends for Christmas. I call these Scoodies (scarf with a hood). I looked them up on the internet and they are really a very basic pattern. I did modify it a little bit in the back behind the neck so that there wouldn't be a lot of bunching up. So far so good.
My scoodie: Black fleece with faux animal print trim on hood.
This is the one I had originally made for my grandmother but ended up giving it to my Uncle's girlfriend after my grandmother said she couldn't stand things on her head because it would mess up her hair when she saw me wearing mine. Glad I was able to change it out before I gave it to her and it never got used. It's made from fleece. I had just a plain black bias tape on the hood edge but it really felt like it needed a bit extra so I added the black lace. I also added small black looped fringe to the ends.
I made this one for my mom. It's just like the pink one except it doesn't have the bias tape edge, just lace.
Just recently I came across a tutorial on dying glass pearls over on Martha Stewart and just had to try it out.
I'm still on the fence with this one. Yellow and Tan seem to take better to the pearls than the other colors I tried, black, wine, dark green. Here are some pics of the results.
1st experiment:
2nd experiment
Other than those things, nothing new. Hopefully I will have new things to show more often this year instead of once every few months.
