Mothered a tiny bear today!
But truth of the day, I am so glad to have birthed my real babies over thirty years ago. They are still the love and light of my life.
Happy Mother’s Day everyone!
Tag Archive: Scarlett Royal
And that is two days of work. Still, need to work on these as I learn ways to make them look special, but that is the fun part. And I think it shouldn’t take this long, but mistakes, frogging or tinking take a lot of time but teach ways to avoid the same later.
I have been busy all day. I’ve made four legs with feet, a body and most of a head. The pattern called for two skeins. In all the donated yarn I have no two skeins are the same. So I found some fuzzy rose and a gray with white spots. I am on the trunk which is the end of the elephant in the making. But the gray ran out. It is too dark to go looking for something to finish the trunk and make the toy tonight. I hope I can figure out something. But here’s the gruesome sight.
Poor little elephant never had a chance! 😦
Black-bottom bears are vegetarians who need scarves all year round.
That was the one line I felt I would tease with. Trying to play with Linda G Hill and her Wednesday fun.
Now for the rest of the story. Boring one? I ran out of the raspberry mohair-ish yarn. No labels on most of the donated yarn so I don’t know how much I have or what it is made of. So I found some black yarn that seemed to go okay.
But the story in my head goes like this:
“Please type this for me.” Whispered the Raspberry Bear.
“Okay,” I said fingers readied to transpose.
“I am Raz.” That’s what my mother called me. But I am sure somebody will soon give me another name. I am a black-bottomed bear. Don’t ever mistake us for Black Bears. They have long claws and can be dangerous.” Raz shutters.
“When we are born, we spend most of our time in the raspberry bushes. We love raspberries, well and other berries. We come in a variety of shades of berry colors and stay that way until we are grown. Then for some reason, our bottoms and legs grow black. Do you think it is due to climbing mulberry trees?”
“Why don’t your noses and mouths become black?” I asked.
“Well,” Raz starts. “Since we only eat veggies, we eat many different leaves and fruits. So maybe it just rubs off?” Raz starts to shiver.
“What’s wrong?” I asked.
“I’m cold.”
“But it is 73 degrees!” I say.
“We are vegetarians, we black-bottomed bears. We tend to need more warmth and a lot of love.”
I got busy with my knitting and donned Raz with a scarf. I hope it tides her over until someone adopts her. Here are a couple shots for Raz to model her new scarf.
Raz wants to thank Scarlett Royal for helping her come into being.
I just finished another hat using fun fur with a soft Red Heart, yellow. I added a brim in the leftover yellow using Scarlett Royal’s method. Since I still don’t have a mannequin head–dummy head? I used my own.
I just did the e-wrap until time for the brim. Funny part is that I found it looks better inside out as the little confetti look better on the ‘purl’ side. This is a fun hat to wear!
These last two I discovered that the hat could be worn inside out with the brim rolled up.
Oh, and I colored my hair and I love how it turned out!
After tearing out the brim last night at midnight and starting again this evening, I am happy with it. It is a Cloche Hat. I modified it adding that rib stitch so that if it were given to someone who wanted their ears covered they could adjust it down that way. The brim curls a bit and I suppose that would be up to the person that gets it whether they want it flat or curled. At least it gives a little protection to the eyes from the sun. This yarn has wool in it but it wasn’t scratchy so I would think it would be good for cooler fall or spring days.
I’ve got to get a styrofoam head to display these hats! Oatmeal boxes and keyboards just don’t do it!
Darswords 
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