Dyed Wool Blanket

Many years ago I dyed some old wool blanket with cold water Dylon in a big old jam pan on our Rayburn. I made rag rugs with some of the pieces but mostly they went into the Circus Tent Curtains that still hang at our bedroom window.

Feels a bit weird to post about these as they have been hanging at our windows for years and I have just about  stopped seeing them, as I live with them every day - but this last week I dug out a bit of pink wool blanket for this little jacket for Hester

Hester - the baby in the woods
Martha was home for a few days and made the little embellishments - I am very nervous about embroidery - not very good at it

I really like these little 'flowers'  - simple and just right - and nothing like the Olympic Games Hoops Martha.
Apart from embroidery, I am very bad at button holes. This little jacket hasn't got any yet and may never have. Lara is used to this - we have settled on using a nappy pin to close the cardigans I make for her kids. I hope Louise is OK with this too!
But what would you - my world wide craft friends - do with the buttons situation here - bearing in mind I am a nervous button hole maker - poppers?
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And look Matt - in John's room

Comments

[Angel Jem]

Use a button at the edge and an embroidery silk thread loop, you know what I mean, with sort of button hole stitching on a loop to make it stronger. Green thread and a flower button would be cute.

[Angel Jem]

Or a lady bird button would be cuter? And you could put one somewhere else on the jacket!

[katie]

liking the loop idea - how about ribbon instead of thread - stronger?
thanks

[Sarah]

The curtains are really lovely. It's nice to stop and see again afresh sometimes; I find that blogging helps me to do that a lot.

I would sew on bits of ribbon either side so you could tie it together with a bow.

[Frances]

I love your curtains. The button and loop idea is a good one if you don't like buttonholes or ties at the front.

[islaygirl]

i love, love, love the jacket. i was just looking for something along those lines for the wee one. lovely. and the curtains! whimsical!

[Matt]

How did they get there?

[Alison]

The curtains are fanatastic and the jacket is so sweet...have you thought of toggles and loops?
Take care,
Alison x

[Susan]

Buttons and loops is what I was thinking too :) Love your curtains and the little jacket is the sweetest thing, it's just beautiful.

[Katerina]

Your curtains are beautiful, so cheerful! So are the little embroidered flowers! In place of buttons, I can think of velcro, two strings for ties, snaps or hooks.

[Lindsay]

The loop / button solution is a good one as are velcro (with a "butterfly" covering the velcro), snaps and hooks. I-cord may be fashioned into a frog closure. But my all time favorite when I don't want to bother with making a button hole - I make a belt. :-)

Love your curtains!!

[katie]

liking all these ideas very much - I'll post the final solution

[carolyn]

Kate your curtains are brilliant, love them to bits and the cardi is so sweet.

[Sue]

Hi Katie

Love those curtains!! Hope Matt isn't going round shoeless if, I'm guessing, his trainers got lost somehow!!

Guess what ... at last I might be getting A SHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sue x

[little jenny wren]

Spectacular curtains Katie. They are wonderful. And such a sweet little jacket. I've had old blankets up at the playroom windows all winter because I didn't get round to putting up the new curtains. Your blanket looks so much better.

[Barbara]

Those curtains are really something. You are so clever, and the jacket.
Isn't it amazing how blogging gives us fresh eyes to see.

[janice]

love the cutains they are really very inspirational

[weirdbunny]

Wow those curtains are brilliant. Lovely to see something so jolly when you wake up in the morning ! ~ love Julia x