Julie Kelley's Design Gallery

A Tale of 2 Stockings...

We were visiting our good friend Pete last winter, and I commented on his Christmas Stocking, an adorable crocheted stocking, that I believe he said that his Grandmother made when he was a baby... She also made one for his first son, but passed away before his second son was born, so Pete and Connor have these wonderful matching stockings, but Coen didn't... He told us that he had called several people he found online, but it was going to cost a small fortune (like $100+) to have one made to match... NOT SO :) said I... I told him to give me his stocking to use as sort-of a pattern, and I would make one that would at least come close :)  So, $6 in yarn later...

Here's Pete's original stocking...

And... Here's the matching one I made for Coen

And here they are together :)

Mike's bringing them to Pete today at work :) I hope he likes it!! It was a fun project, and honestly took hardly any time at all to copy!!!!

Babies and Birthdays!

I know I have mentioned it before... but I just LOVE to make things for babies :) I firmly believe that ALL babies should have something homemade for them... and I do my best!  This is the blankie, gift bag, and matching card/envelope that I made for our cousin Beth, who's wonderful shower was this past weekend... I know I always say this too :) BUT I just LOVED how this blankie turned out, the yarn was so soft and cozy... Congrats to Mom and Dad, and Welcome (in about a month or so) to the new baby!

The blankie...

 

 

 

This is the plain white gift bag that I decorated... That beautiful flower was made by me at the Design Team meeting we had 2 weeks ago at The Crop Shop in Rockland... It was my first meeting of all the wonderful ladies there, and several had little projects for us to all do... this FAB flower design was taught to us by Nancy!

Here's a closer up photo of the decoration...

 

And the card...

along with the matching decorated envelope... Patterned papers are DCWV

Not Just Paper Crafts :)

I found out last week that our "little neighbor girl" who was actually little when we bought our house, but now is clearly all grown up :) Had her baby last week... A little boy... I knew she was pregnant, but didn't realize she was due so soon!!! When her Mom told me that she was on her way to the hospital to meet her first grandchild, I ran to the store to get some yarn!!  Here's the little afghan I made up for them... The bast part was when Kathryn and I walked over to deliver it, the baby was there visiting his Grandma, so we got to meet him... Oh, how I just love little babies!!! And... ALL little babies should have something that is handmade just for them :)

 

 

Baby Fever

Not for us :) But for Mike's cousin Kimmy!! We couldn't be more excited for Kimmy and Blue and the little peanut!!! The baby shower was last weekend, and here's what I made...

A Matching gift bag and card, made with some wonderful Heidi Grace papers and cardstock stickers, the QK font is one of my favorites, Maggie Mini :) and a little bit of Bazzill Cardstock.







And... Paper Crafts are not all I can do :) I crocheted this wonderfully soft blankie to go with in the bag... It was a new pattern, but worked up pretty quickly, I just LOVE how it came out! I've just recently made another blankie for a friend who's also due about the same time, and I'm on scarf number 6 (it's going to be a handmade Christmas for many people this year!!)