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.

Working on an a small project; the Itty Bitty Felt Bear

I have been working a few things; one was my tiny little bears and a bit later on I will share this project idea with you all on how to make these little guys.
These little bears can be made on a sewing machine or by just sewing by hand; I just hand sewed this one and the stitching is a bit strange looking but that is because I wanted that way. I did the stitching a bit loose and jagged to get this effect but one not do this way I was just playing around with an idea when I did up this little bear.
I used a bit of brown felt for the bear and cotton fabrics for the little dress, buttons for the eyes and bead for the nose. I used bigger buttons just because I wanted a different look to the bear, what I am trying there is a lots of ways to make these little guys and they don't have to be just bears with a few simple changes you can make dogs, rabbits cats or what ever else one can think up. I will share the project idea sometime next week so be on the look out for how to make these little guys.

Blue Berry Bread Recipe

this recipe makes 2 large loafs of blue berry bread, and tastes wonderful with the heavy cream. The batter will mix up really quite thick but you can spread in bread pans easily. The 2 loafs lasted about a day in home!
5 cups of flour
1 1/2 cups of sugar
2 big table spoons of baking powder
1 teaspoon of salt
3/4 cups of real melted butter/or softened
1 1/2 cups of your choice of nuts, such as walnuts chopped slightly or chopped up fine depending on what you like.
4 eggs
2 cups of heavy cream
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
3-4 cups of fresh blue berries or you can use the frozen blue berries
Heat the oven to 350 degrees, grease and flour your large loaf pans or I made this in a bundt cake pan then you will just get one large loaf
Mix up the the dry ingredients first then add the butter and nuts, cream, eggs vanilla, gently add the blues berries, the dough gets a bit thick and stiff but it will work, then after it is mixed and thick spoon into the loafs even though its thick you can work it and spread in the loaf pans. It bakes for about an hour and 20 minutes.
Let cool about 10-12 minutes for cutting with a bread knife.