fabric boutonnieres

Here is a sampling of boutonnieres and decrative flowers I made for my friends wedding. She got the idea from the Martha Stewart wedding website. They remind me of the 30's, feedsack fabric, cute, vintage, crafty, wedding items you can make for your own wedding. I added yoyos (a quilting technique) behind the buttons for the boutonnieres we used for the groom, father & grandfather. The groomsmen used one with 3 plain buttons & the ushers used the one with 4 buttons. The roses were sewn to a basket that was on the gift table for cards.

drinking lots of tea

On my fifth cup of tea the boiling water reminded me that I wanted to try and shrink my acorn hat. So I filled a sauce pot with water till it began to boil I placed the hat in the pot poking it under the boiling water with tongs. I let it soak for 4min. I poured out the water in the sink and with the tongs I placed the hat on a folded in half towel waiting on the floor. It was still steaming, so carefully I laid the scalloped edging out flat. The hat didn't seam to have shrunk much. I think it got larger... So I'm filling up my spaghetti pot this time, the sauce pot seamed to be a little small. Ok so I let the hat boil in the pot for 20 minutes. It didn't shrink at all. I guess Lion Brand fishermen's wool doesn't shrink. Well now I know. This time when I poured out the hot water in the sink. I have a double sink, so I poured out the water in one and had dilled up the other side with cold water. And placed the hat into the cold water after pouring the water out. I squeezed the water out being sure not to rink it out & then hung it up to dry. When searching for info on shrinking knits I found this wool crafting.

I added the acorn rib pattern around the edge. I decreased the rim from 106 to 81 stitches. And now it is a dread hat.