No beard and no mustache either!
He looks pretty grumpy.
He has an awesome pirate-y button on his belt.
Pirate 3- What? No Beard?!
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Pirate 2
I like the hat but his hair is pretty good too :-)
Stormy blue eyes. Another antique button.
ARG! Pirate!
I will tell you- it has been a challenge, figuring out how to put this fellow together. He is a very fancy pirate.
An antique button on his belt.
His hair in detail-
Purple Fish- the Last One
Fish pillow number 12 and the that’s enough fish pillows for now.
The purple body fabric was some more of the wool I took home from the free table at the rug hooking store. It had been a skirt once. Onto the next thing. Right now I am doing prep work- cutting and doing the machine sewing. It is always the best to have a bin-full of ready to go projects!
Red and Green Fish
Their heads and tails- one fish has dark red, the other dark green.
The bottom fish is made from a beautiful vintage textured wool. The top fish sports a gorgeous wool plaid. Both fabrics were gifted to me- how lucky am I?!
The head and tail are a dark green boiled wool- so knit and kind of bumpy.
Dark red and orange to match colors in the plaid.
Red Fish and Orange Fish
This next one is made from an old, moth-eaten Hudson Bay blanket. It needed a new life.
Houndstooth Fish
My computer doesn’t believe that houndstooth is a word, but really, it is!
And here are 3 fish with houndstooth weave wool.
This one looks like zigzag from a distance but close-up, you can see the houndstooth pattern.
This one is dark green and white- it is very soft so it is probably woven cashmere or maybe an angora blend, but I’m not sure. I bought some lengths of it at an estate sale of a fashion seamstress. In the house, I thought it was black and white!
And here they are, hanging out at the pool.
Yellow and White Fish Pillows
Two light colored fish. I remember exactly where I got the body fabrics- The top fish is an awesome coat fabric. I went to a fiber swap and someone had brought a vintage (70’s?) coat. I took that home! The white textured weave fabric I picked up in Northampton, MA after I did a show there. I went to a shop that sold supplies for rug-hooking. It had just changed ownership. The new owner put out a pile of free wool fabrics. Why yes, I did grab a bagful. That fabric was probably never going to work for rug hooking but it is good for me!
Gone fishing
The last month has been busy, involving some travel and other fun and/or more boring real life things. Now I have something to show because, yes, I have been getting a little work done! It’s fish-y time. I cut out and sewed up a load of fish- that’s not even all of them.
Here is who got finished first-
Blue tweedy fish-
and blue sweater fish-
And there is more to come!
and 2 Snowy Owls
These are the last 2 of this owl group.
So many cable knits!
Both these owls has super-soft tummy patches.
