Oh yes, my Thanksgiving cactus is blooming!
Christmas cactus
Month: December 2023
Santa hat sparkle
To be festive, I added a string of colored led lights to a sequined Santa hat. The cool part? The lights show through the white faux fur brim. The battery pack fit inside the brim in the back, and I wrapped the lights loosely around, then used white thread to make a basting stitch around the brim to hold everything in. The long stitches will be easy to undo, should I need to remove the lights, and I left a gap just large enough to slide the battery pack out.
Holiday sweater
My youngest had a home-made holiday sweater contest at school. She drew up her design, and I sewed it into a red long sleeved shirt using felt and embroidery floss.
I also harvested a small led switch from a holiday decoration and sewed it in behind the snowman’s face, so there would be flashing lights.
She won.
Scrap hats
I have worked my way through the entire bag of acrylic scrap yarn. Here is the lineup of hats I was able to put together with the multitude of colors.
This was actually a good color experiment. I combined colors I never would have picked originally, and I think they turned out well. Looking around a pile of yarn and deciding which colors to put together and in which amounts is a good brain exercise as well. Plus it is an excellent stash buster.
Remarkable
It is remarkable when you’ve had a towel for at least 6 years and then find that the little plastic tags are still there. What? How did I miss this for so many years? They are scratchy irritating little things. Anyway, they are gone now. Here is a picture of Thor the cat trying to help (he loves fabric.)
Critters and Craft 