A Pair of Proud Parents, our son the football player

Today I am wandering away from crafting just for a bit; I just had to talk about this weekend and my son's football game and him. My was it an exciting game! Those boys won 36-0 and did they deserve it! They all played so well and so hard, they all are turning out to be a good team.
My son plays outside line backer and it seems to be a good spot for him. Friday he got 3 sacks and 5 big stops but the best was yet to come. Near the end of the game he intercepted the quarterback of the other team and ran for 80 yards and the final touch down! So today I just wanted to share with you all how proud we are of him way to go! my wonderful son!

The Little Old chicken Maiden, a 15 inch primitive rag cloth doll

Well did I have fun creating this primitive rag cloth doll; this is Little Old Chicken Maiden. She is 15 inches long and has been stained with my own personal stain, but I have also rubbed some cinnamon into her. I made her from muslin and filled her with fiber fill, and oh yes the pattern is my own design from which I can create all kinds of different dolls from this single pattern. I have also taken some light weigh sand paper to her to help with that aging process.



Her clothing is cotton fabrics, I have also stained them, did notice the shirt? I had this cute fabric left over and it just made a very cute shirt for her and the design, helped me name her. The chicken she is holding is also muslin and stained and its legs are from my very own bamboo tree in my back yard. I am still busy creating and making items for my art fire store; I hope you will come and visit and see all the new things I have been making, some things will be familiar and there are items in my store that I have not talked about so come on in and see what all is new ( I have not added the doll above as of yet but in a few days I will be)
http://www.artfire.com/users/49stocker

15 inch Halloween rag cloth doll witch, Maggie the Ugly Maiden

Meet Maggie the Ugly Maiden; she is one of my many witches I can create with a very simple pattern that I have designed.
Maggie is basic and in October I will show you all how to make her for Halloween.
I had some great cotton blend summer fabric to use for making her body, I love this green and I think I bought it a few years back in Joann's fabric store.
As usual I have filled the body with fiber fill and painted the facial expression with acrylic paints, I added a powder blush to the cheeks. The dress and bloomers are cotton Halloween fabrics and her hat and shoes are a black felt. The hair is a heavy duty polyester thread that I have sewn through the head and knotted tightly.

Crafting and Baking go together on these up coming Fall days

When I am in one of my crafting frenzies I also get into a baking frenzy!
I baked up about 6 loaves of strawberry mango quick bread and just as fast as I could bake it; poof it was gone, eaten up by my husband and son. So the only next thing to do was bake more...
So I baked up a bunch of homemade chocolate chip cookies using 2 boxes of yellow cake mix one egg, chocolate chips, and 1/3 cup of water I always get these yummy cookies and its a simple way of making homemade.



I also made up a bunch of brownie cookies just using any brownie mix, an egg and a bit of water; just add water a little at a time until the dough is slightly stiff and all mixed together. Later on in a bit I will share the strawberry mango recipe.

Bell 18 Inch Rag Cloth Doll, from 1990

If you love rag cloth dolls then I think you will like Bell lots. Bell is taken from a vintage pattern from 1990 and I sometimes think saying vintage for 1990 is hard to say being I was married in 1990 but that is 20 years ago.
The body of the doll is made from muslin and filled with fiber fill, the hair is a orange yarn that I have looped tied and sewn into the head of the doll with a heavy thread. I have also added some ribbon to the ponytails that were created for the doll.
The eyes are black buttons and I have painted on the freckles and mouth using acrylics, and applied a blush to Bell.


The jumper is scraps of fabrics sewn together for quilts,and the fabrics are cotton fabrics of various designs for holidays. Her under shirt, panties, soles of shoes, jumper ties are a dark red broadcloth; but the upper shoe is black broad cloth.
On the jumper tie straps there are little lady bug buttons, the jumper is is gathered and the under shirt is also gathered and I have added bright red ribbon to the shoes for a final touch to the doll. You can find her to purchase at It's Just Krazy Kute Productions
She is $16.00 and she would make a great gift idea for kids over the age of 7 years or those who love rag cloth dolls, I say over 7 years because of the button eyes.

Fall time Creating frenzy, designing new ideas for this fall season

Well this weekend kind of marks the end of summer being that school starts on Tuesday for all us here in Oregon. I have been hard at it coming up with some new ideas.
The first new idea is the little pumpkins I have created; they are made from dark orange broadcloth and filled with fiber fill, the stems are cotton fabrics; two pumpkins have green dotted fabric while the center pumpkin has a green plaid stem. I also added colored separated rope and rolled these pumpkins in cinnamon for an aged look and a nice scent. I created my own pattern for these pumpkins and they can be purchased at It's Just Krazy Kute Productions


This is Herman the Scarecrow he is also created from the letter b but in a bigger pattern and I have separated the b to be able to make the head. I have used muslin, fall cotton fabrics, fiber fill, buttons and separated rope for him. He is my own original design, I liked how the rope looked like straw as I pulled it apart and I had a pumpkin button to use for the nose and a bit of dark blush for the cheeks. He is also in my store It's Just Krazy Kute Productions for purchasing. I am still busy creating and will have more for you a bit later.

Making a Bear, made out of the Letter B; Bear making made easy

I have created just a very simple bear pattern by using the letter B; I drew out an example of the idea of what I do to make this bear. In the example I am using I have made the letter B larger to get a bigger bear and drew some arms and legs. The photo below is the bear pieces coming together,as one can see the body of the bear looks just like the letter B I drew out.





This is the final picture of the bear when he has been completed, I have lots of fun creating these 12 inch bears. They also don't have to be just bears, instead I can make cats, dogs or what ever I can see in the letter B.