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Newsletter October/November, 2000
Internet Visions Company
TABLE OF CONTENTS
 Hi Fellow Crafters, Fall is here and turkey time is on it's way! Please enjoy this fun filled issue. The Bluebonnet Crafters have many seasonal crafts to challenge you. We also have a cloth doll pattern generously being shared by Jennifer Zacher. Don't forget to check out the Kids Projects and the Pumpkin Soup! If you run out of things to do before our next issue all the past issues are still available at http://wwvisions.com/newsletter/ . Sincerely, PS And, if you have not
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Fall Candle Ring
This candle ring can be made of real autumn leaves or you may choose to use silk autumn leaves or have the children draw and color leaves to decorate your candle. Materials:
Center your pillar candle on the Styrofoam disk. Using the greening pins and/or craft glue arrange the leaves around the edge of the disk and on top of the disk around the base of the candle. You can add gourds, Indian corn, miniature pumpkins, etc. to your leaves as you wish..
Materials:
Fold the first piece of chenille stems in half. The second piece is twisted around the first piece with both ends folded back to the middle after the beads are applied. This will form a "T" shape with the open ends of the vertical piece toward the bottom. Cut the floss in short pieces that will extend from the top of his head under his chin at both wrists and ankles. If you cut one inch lengths the finished piece will be approximately one half inch. Insert the fold of the number one chenille stem into the head bead where it extends above the head just slightly. Insert a small clump of floss pieces through the fold of the chenille stem. Add a little glue to hold it in place and pull the stem down even with the top of the bead head. This will allow just the floss to stick up. Place the arm piece below the bead head just slightly. Place one of the small beads on each end of the arm piece adding floss as you did for the head pulling the stem back into the bead so only the floss is sticking out. Glue a little more of the floss at the other end of the bead so you have floss extending from each side of the bead. Make a double twist below the arm piece with your vertical chenille stem. You may add a drop of glue to anchor them in place. Separate the two ends of the vertical stem to form his two legs. Fold the end of the chenille stem up approximately an inch and twist around to hold. Add a bead to each leg with floss only at the top of the bead to look like hay extending from the bottom of his trousers. For the shirt cut your folded fabric in a "T" shape using the picture as a guide and your own scarecrow for sizing. Cut a small notch for his neck and slit it down the back. Place it on the scarecrow gluing the seems at the underarm and down the sides. For the trousers fold your fabric toward the center from both sides cutting a small "V" in the front part and gluing this around the scarecrow under the edge of the shirt. Glue the top of the trousers and the inseams closed. Glue scraps of fabric randomly as patches on his clothes. You might make one of the patches a pocket with a little of the yellow floss sticking out to look like straw. Glue the pinback on the back and allow it all to dry. If you have not used a head bead paint the features making your scarecrow either friendly or a little scary to scare off the birds. Option: If your bead is not one of the face beads you will need to add the Scarecrow's face.
# 1. Miniature pumpkins, squash and gourds make interesting candle holders for the Thanksgiving table. # 2. A handy tool is a credit card or other stiff piece of plastic to spread glue and to work the wrinkles out of glued paper or fabric. # 3. For more control in tea dying specific
areas of your craft use a foam brush dipped in strong tea and paint the
area.
7" Doll by Jennifer Zacher Jennifer says "The art of doll making is something to be treasured. Being creative is a gift, and when a person has this gift, they should share it with the world!" In this spirit Jennifer offered her pattern to members of the Friends of Cloth Doll mailing list. When I contacted her she generously made it available to all our readers. Those who send a picture of their doll to Jennifer can then see it in the gallery on her web site. Stop by and visit her site to get the directions for sending your picture and let her know how you like the doll. http://www.wheredollsplay.com Email "Jennifer" 1. First you need to print the pattern --> Click HERE! You can print onto card stock if you like. You will be tracing this pattern onto your fabric, so do whatever works best for you. 2. Begin by cutting out all of the pieces along the lines. 3. Begin by cutting out all of the pieces along the lines. 3. Fold your fabric in half so you have 2 layers, right sides together of course! Trace the pieces onto whatever fabric you like (something as simple and inexpensive as broadcloth works well for these dolls). Be sure to trace the leg and arm twice. Trace all other pieces once. You can use a light pencil, or a sewing pencil crayon as long as it is not too dark. 4. DO NOT CUT PIECES OUT!!! This is very important because if you cut the pieces out before you sew them, you'll have a very hard time with them because they are so small.. 5. Sew along all the lines of what you've traced, making sure to leave a small opening for each piece to be turned. Use a small stitch, but not microscopic! 6. Now you can cut the pieces out. Cut leaving about 1/8th of an inch of fabric. You don't want to get too close to the stitching or it will not hold together. Clip curves. 7. Turn all pieces right side out. You can use a chopstick or the end of a paintbrush if it helps. 8. Stuff all of the pieces and sew openings closed. Now you can sew all of the pieces together to form whatever pose you like. Slide the dolls neck part of the head over the little lump on the top of the body, it makes for a sturdier neck! 8. Stuff all of the pieces and sew openings closed. Now you can sew all of the pieces together to form whatever pose you like. Slide the dolls neck part of the head over the little lump on the top of the body, it makes for a sturdier neck! 9. Add a face and some clothes to your new creation along with tons of other embellishments. You can use feathers for the wings, lots of faux fur, silk flower pieces, glitter, paint, and all sorts of other wonderful items. Just get really creative and have fun with this. 10. Last but not least, you are permitted to use this pattern to make dolls for sale. If you have any questions or concerns, you can contact the creator by email clothdoll@wheredollsplay.com! Also, if you would like to submit pictures of your creations to be put up on my web site, please mail them to me at the address mentioned earlier as a jpg or gif. URL: http://www.wheredollsplay.com .
Painted Rocks Materials:
Wash the rocks well and allow to dry thoroughly. Brush any loose soil or grit from the rocks and apply a base coat of Gesso or your skin colored acrylic paint. Using the pictures as a guide paint the rocks to look like either a Pilgrim lady or gentleman or an Indian Brave. Cut a piece of the felt in a long strip that will reach around the rock about two thirds of the way and arrange it as in the picture for the Pilgrim lady's hat. Using the picture as a guide cut a piece of felt in the shape of the Pilgrim man's hat. Draw a silver buckle on the front of it then glue the hat to his head. Glue your feather to the back of the Indian's head and glue a ribbon or piece of leather lacing around the head as the head band. These can be personalized on the back with the name of each guest at Thanksgiving dinner and used as placecards.
The pattern can be enlarged or reduced as you wish. Measure the length of the longest part of the pattern piece (this is your leaf) and the width of the pattern piece. You will make your fold the same size as the width and your cut strips of brown paper will be as wide as the longest measurement on your pattern. Materials:
 Instructions: Print the pattern piece and cut it out. Accordion pleat your strip of brown craft paper and trace the pattern being sure the straight sides of the pattern are on the folds on both sides of your craft paper. Trace the pattern piece on the folded paper and then cut it out through all folded layers. Open the garland out and using the finished picture add the veins in the leaves and the cap of the acorn as well as a line separating the two as shown in the picture. You can add as many pieces by placing them side by side and gluing a small piece of craft paper to the back joining the two strips. The garland can be hung around a window, on a mantle or arranged as table runners on the dining table.
Pumpkin Soup Since this recipe calls for pureed pumpkin a nice idea would be to purchase a nice shaped pumpkin with a flat bottom that you can cut a slit in the top, clean it and scrape pumpkin out leaving a fair amount to form a shell that can be used as the serving dish for the Pumpkin Soup after it is cooked. Be sure and cut a notch in the lid so the serving ladle can stick out above the pumpkin. Ingredients
Sauté onion and garlic in olive
oil. Cook bacon and crumble.
Turkey Napkin Rings Materials:
Pattern can be enlarged or reduced as needed Instructions: Using the pattern as a guide print out and trace the pattern pieces on your construction/craft paper. In addition cut a strip of paper long enough to go around the cardboard core and about an inch and a half wide. Wrap paper strips around the cardboard core clipping it on both sides so it will fold smoothly around the edge of the core to cover. Glue in place. Cut out the two pattern pieces. Using crayons
or permanent marker add the details to the turkey's head and color each
segment of the tail. Fan fold along the drawn lines of the tail. Open the
fan and glue the base to the center of the covered cardboard core. Then
glue the turkey body/head centered on the tail. Place a napkin in each
core and place one at each place setting.
Count Down to Christmas I first made this Countdown over 40 years ago when my son, just turning 2, was too young to count but old enough to know Christmas was coming. "When is Christmas?" and " How long until Christmas?" Every day the same questions were asked beginning at Thanksgiving and increasing as the TV ads and stores brought out all the Christmas things. He was born on December 1st so as one of his birthday gifts on his second birthday, I made the countdown tree. Originally to save me answering the constant questions. Then the next year it was the stocking, another year the wreath. When he grew a little older I didn't make a countdown. After all he was old enough to count and use a calendar. But it seems I had started a family tradition and those are not messed with. He had one until he married and left home. When his first child was born I got a call and had to make the countdown. This Count Down to Christmas can be a Christmas stocking made of red colored poster board trimmed in white, a green wreath with a red bow or a tree of green colored poster board with a small rectangle painted brown to represent the trunk and a bucket shape in red as the container. Then thrown away after the holidays. As an option you can make them from felt. With this one you will need to tie the items on rather than glue. After the holidays it can be folded away and saved until next year. Materials
1 larger candy/gift 
Instructions:
Using the picture as your guide cut 5 triangles each progressively smaller. Glue them together, the smallest at the top. The point of the next larger is glued to the center of the smallest and continue until you have chained the 5 to look like a Christmas tree. Add the brown piece representing the trunk and glue to the center of the largest triangle and behind the red pot. Add a hanger to the back and number the front beginning at the bottom placing the numbers 1-2-3 across the bottom and 4-5 in the area above. You will be placing 5 numbers in each triangle of the tree in this same formation except the smallest triangle which will have 3 numbers across the bottom, 1 centered above that and 25 at the very top of the tree. Glue a small individually wrapped candy or toy surprise beside each number. Hang the countdown on December 1st and allow the child to remove the small surprise at the number 1 mark (a good time for this is right after dinner). This is done each evening until Christmas. The child can see the numbers from 1 to 25 and if too young to count or know their numbers can tell if Christmas is as far off as the tiny candy and gifts left on the countdown shape. The gift or candy for the 25th should be slightly larger or a little more special to show that this is Christmas day. Option: If you are making a reusable countdown take a stitch from the top to the back, back up to the front then to the back again and back up to the front leaving two long ends to tie the small gifts to the countdown. Using this type of stitch your ribbons or floss will remain in place after the gift is untied so it is ready for use again the next year. The Countdown to Christmas can be personalized.
This way, if you have several children each will be able to recognize their
own.
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From Laurieann
