Tis the Season: Stocking Disaster?

I'm being partly probably overly dramatic but you may know how it is when a project just dosen't turn out the way one has planned. Such is my plight. I'm going to carry on with this post as intended and then get to the "disaster" part.

It all started with the stocking my mom made me.

"Awwww"

I made my husband (at the time my boyfriend) a stocking  out of some prefab wool felt (it's the one on the left with the white top).  I made Loki's stocking out of a wool sweater I felted ( I was just getting into the whole recycled wool felt thing)

I did a bit of embrodery (badly, so no photo)

I even added a tiny snowman to my husband's 

(cute so there is a photo)

Stockings hung with care!

But wait, we need one more. I ran out to the thrift store to get a red wool sweater to felt. This is where the "disaster" begins. They didn't have any. They only acrylic blends, which will not felt. Ugh, I settled on a nice one with a cable. I traced my pattern and sewed it up. 

Looking good?

Then I went to hang it and it faces the opposite way. DISASTER! I know it's really not and in fact have found a solution. I was going to just use the plain non-cabled side, but then discovered that Loki's could face any direction (his just has a few Christmas pins in it that are easy to move).

All is well

Well? Kinda, I just don't have the energy to make another so I will just have to get used to it. I think it's going to drive me crazy but I really think it's more important that the stocking is nice looking rather than face a certain direction.

Frankenslipper

I had a totally different name for this post when I began, but then I saw what I was ending up with, well you'll see...

This is a story about a totally harmless little slipper.

It all started when I made myself a pair of slippers from the

Fiber Trends Felt Clog Pattern about 2 years ago. I wore them all the time and when they started showing some threadbare spots at the begining of last winter, I ignored it. 

I went to put them the other day and remembered 

"Oh yeah, these have holes"

I decided instead of making a new pair (remember the lazy factor) 

I'd just repair the slippers. So far so good.

 

To make the repair I used a felted thrift store sweater. Still doing ok.

I cut out new soles to put over the old ones and I thought I was going to be brilliant and needle felt some extra patches on but it didn't work at all. Boo. This is where it all started going badly.

 I  resorted to hand whip stitching them on and then doing the same to attach the new soles to the slippers. I searched and searched for the blue yarn that I had made them out of to no avail. I did find the green yarn that I had made my husbands slippers out of. (His are fine by the way) and thats when..

... from the old slippers

Frankenslipper was born

Look away, look away. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!  

Scary huh?

Potty Learning Fun! Or Not. (More Wool Longies!)

So I was super productive today because I decided to be try to be diaper free (or down to 1 in diapers) with Loki.

Here is my 2nd pair of wool longies :

And my 3rd: The 1st were done sometime in the winter. Check them out here and here!

The 2nd pair has no elastic at the waist. I figured that the fabric was pretty stretchy and tight-ish so we will see how it goes/ fits once the toddler wakes from his nap.

The 3rd pair have elastic at the waist and I think they are going to be too big. I may end up redoing them. We will see.

I will be using these over "training" pants at night and cross my fingers they work. I should mention that I am also planning on Lanolizing them too.

Gotta run baby is awake!

Wanna Win?It's A Giveaway in Honer of EarthDay!

In honer of Earth Day I'm having a contest! Woo Hoo! This is your chance to win a one of a kind Kookababy sweater bunny. This isn't your average bunny. This one is made of a recycled wool sweater and t-shirt then stuffed with eco-friendly bamboo fill!  So it simple to enter, all you have to do is post a comment to my blog by 12pm EST on April 29th (Post from 4/22-4/29 are eligible). The comment must be relevant to the post and be on a post made in 2009. I will draw a winner at random on Thursday April 30th and then announce the winner on Friday.

He could be yours!
Don't forget to include contact info (email or blog link) so I can notify you and collect your address.

Sweet Success!

                 
Pants in Action!!! This morning I managed to get the pants I made on him. These are made out of two sleeves from a felted thrift store sweater. I used a basic pant pattern to know where to cut the crotch and rise. I think I will make some tweaks to it and then try again. Maybe I'll even generate my own pattern. We'll see. It might be a bit ambitious. 

So soft and Cozy! So much so that he didn't even want to take them off.