DIY Felt Food Disney Snacks

 Little Chef and Minnie have a lot of play food. We have all sorts of wooden food, plastic eggs and felt sandwich kits. And it ALL gets played with, daily. And we have started having tea parties too! Life with a girl can be so different at times. So naturally, when I saw this pattern for making Mickey Mouse ice cream sandwiches, I knew I needed to add it to the food arsenal. Variety is the spice of life (and a sanity saver) after all!

In making this I used that pattern provided by Capturing Magical Memories, above. I had to shrink it to about 90% to fit on the printer paper.

I also, mistakenly ordered some adhesive backed felt. It was the right brown color and I didn't realized it was sticky. I love how stiff the felt is. And in hind site, it had the advantage of holding the white strip in place while I sewed. This was great! The down side is that the needle became very sticky too and had to be cleaned three or four times with alcohol. Not hard, just a pain in the neck. I would certainly recommend finding stiffer felt for this project.

And this little ice cream sandwich took more time to put together than I anticipated. Hand sewing is a slow business for me. I am much faster at knitting! Even so, it was worth it for the joy and newness this little treat brought to the kids' play time! We had ice cream sandwiches all day!

Until next time, may all your days be filled with fairy dust!

DIY Dole Whip Knit Hat

I saw this hat pattern on Pinterest and I knew right away that I was going to do a Dole Whip version for Doc! We are crazy for Dole Whips here in the cottage and we stop to get one whenever we have the chance. (Incidentally, we were delighted to find them at the Hilton Head resort too!)

This was a fairy simple pattern to knit up. The most difficult part of this pattern was figuring out how to put it together once I had knit it. It starts as a parallelogram. Easy enough to knit. But then you have to sew the cast on edge and the bind-off edge together to make a cylinder. That was not specified in the directions, and I had a devil of a time figuring that out! After that, I just gathered the top of the hat with something like a basting stitch and sewed up the gap. I had intended to put a pompom on top, but it was so cool just like this that I decided not to! And the gathered top was not nearly as bad as I thought it would look, so I decided I didn't need to hide it with the pompom.

You can find a link to the pattern and all the details for my hat on my Ravelry page. Until next time, may all your days be filled with fairy dust!