Thursday, February 10, 2011

More handmade toys



As promised, here are the last bits of my handmade Christmas, including Miss Jemima Mouse!

Kitty Bill loved Jeremy Mouse so much that before the day was out he was begging me to make a Jemima Mouse companion.  Luckily, these mice are quite simple to put together.  He insisted she have wedding clothes, as well, and then he created a fort church and conducted a wedding ceremony.  Now of course he's asking for a Tiptoes... You knew that was coming, right?  When things settle down a bit I'll have to oblige him.

Jemima is made from the same Holiday Mice pattern.  Her wedding attire begins with the hat that comes with the mouse pattern.  Then I attached yarn at the back of the hat and knit down to create a cape/veil effect.  If you missed the details on Jeremy, you can find them here.

Here's the wedding photo:


If you haven't seen Reg Down's website for the Tiptoes book series, you must take a look!  There are so many wonderful pictures there.  And the books are pure magic.  All three of my children adore his stories immensely.

What else?

Here's the outcome of that knit horse from Jan Messent's book, Knit a Fantasy Story.  It was a small torture to make it come together, but in the end, the beautiful smile on Sunburst's face was completely worth it.  She adores this horse.  She has since named it Bucephalus-- can you tell she enjoyed studying Ancient Greece?-- and she's been busy designing and knitting a realistic horse blanket for it.  Apparently the pattern in the book is just too different than the horse blankets she has seen around here.





The little doll on top just seemed like it needed to be there.  She's from the Sally Mavor book, Felt Wee Folk.  I just love her little dolls.


For Moonshine, I crafted two dolls: Little Red Riding Hood and the Pink Baby.  Sounds like it could be a curious story all on its own, doesn't it?  Little Red is technically a table puppet with a felt base, but the other dolls welcomed her into the dollhouse anyway.




Moonshine had been ogling the Little Red from the table-theater page in Sunnhild Reincken's book Making Dolls.  This one is not exact, but it's close enough.  The Pink Baby (perhaps it has a name by now) is copied from one the neighbors gave Sunburst last year.  Sunburst traced a pattern, and she kindly helped me sew things up.  There is also a tiny knit blanket, but it obscured the baby too much for the picture.

She loves them!  She really, really does!

5 comments:

  1. You are so very creative. Beautiful treasures. Jemima is just lovely!

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  2. Reg Down5:23 PM

    Hi Sara, I posted the Jeremy and Jemima Mouse photos, plus mentioned your great blog on Tiptoes' site (home page + album). Gruesti (or however you spell it in Swiss-German!) :)

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  3. Reg Down5:58 PM

    PS - also a comment on Tiptoes' Facebook page.

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  4. Thanks, Kelly. Your comments always make me smile.

    Reg, I am so touched by your kind words. Thank you so much! And thanks again for bringing such wonderful stories into my children's hearts. And mine, too. :)

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  5. They are adorable, oh Jeremy and Jemima are favorites in our home to,, the boys especially love the part when he ends up in the tree. Your horse is sweet to... I have been making many things lately.. I never did get to post all the things I made for the children. Lovely to see yours.

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