Making stuff.......

When you cannot go out the day seems very long so the best thing to do is to keep busy.

I made a pair of very tiny yellow running shoes from Kona cotton. The pattern is called "Michele Designs Pixie Sweet Slip-ons". Now I've made one pair I know what I would do different next time. They are a bit skew-if so that it's hard to tell the right from the left. Ideally I would have had the doll here to use her foot as a last. Much easier to measure the sides for gluing with the foot in the shoe.

Coincidentally I come from a long line of Irish shoe and boot makers. Even my dad used to re-heel his leather brogues. He had the wooden lasts belonging to his dad. Sadly the lasts have disappeared.

And, I made some Irish soda bread. I haven't made this recipe in ages but it looks like it should.

Take care :)

Making masks..........

I was requested to make a face mask and I found a pattern that I thought I'd share. It's from "The Crafty Quilter".

Here is the link..........Face Mask Pattern. 

I made two versions. One with ties and one with elastic. The elastic can be adjusted by the wearer and then you can slide the elastic around so the knot is inside the casing.

The request was for a blue mask so I made them from a polyester fabric that was in my stash. It's actually used for men's shirts. It seemed perfect as it has a very high thread count. I also lined them with a very thin pellon. I of course ran out of the right colour of thread and had to use a bluey grey. Typical ...:)

After I made them I also saw this article about what fabrics to use that was very interesting.

Hope you are well and trying not to go stir crazy.

Take care :)