New Baby Bonnet With Vintage Lace

I'm loving my newest creations made with vintage lace!

Custom Order

Can you guess what I'm making for one of my sweet customers?

Another Use For My Vintage Lace

I use it to attach my shop tags to the products I sell.

Thick and Thin Baby Headband With Red Flower

Another new headband that will be added to the shop soon. Here is a sneak peak. Gorgeous thick and thin merino wool in cream with a large red flower with pearls. The flower attaches with an alligator clip so it's easy to remove. Headband closes with a sweet little toggle button in the back.

Thick and Thin Newborn Flower Headband

Sweet and simple hand knit thick and thin merino baby flower headband.
Perfect photography prop for your little princess : )

Free Crochet Pattern for Granny Square Shrug

 I found this free pattern on Kootoyoo's website. I really like it a lot and plan to make one in the future if I ever catch up on my Etsy shop orders!! I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.

 Free Granny Square Shrug Pattern

Free Crocheting Pattern for Baby Bird Hat

Thought I would share another one of my free patterns with you. Hope you enjoy making it!

Many of my customers buy the bird hat pattern with the nest pattern. You can buy the nest pattern in my shop.

crochet pattern for newborn nest photo prop

 Crocheting Pattern for Baby Bird Hat

By Judy Jewell of http://www.propshop.etsy.com

Materials Needed:

U.S. Size “H” crochet hook

TLC Cotton Plus yarn in yellow (or any worsted weight yarn in your color choice)

(1) 3.5 ounce skein will make several hats

Small amount of orange worsted weight yarn

1 pair of 6 mm. black safety animal eyes

Stitch marker

Darning/yarn needle

Hat:    Can be made to fit sizes 0-3 month, 3-6 months, and 6-12 months

With yellow yarn, chain 3, join with slip stitch

6 sc in ring

2 sc in each stitch around (12 sc) ~ attach stitch marker or different color piece of yarn to indicate beginning of each round and move up as you complete each round.

1 sc in next stitch, 2 sc in next stitch, continue this around (18 sc)

1 sc in next 2 stitches, 2 sc in next stitch, continue this around (24 sc)

1 sc in next 3 stitches, 2 sc in next stitch, continue this around (30 sc)

1 sc in next 4 stitches, 2 sc in next stitch, continue this around (36 sc)

1 sc in next 5 stitches, 2 sc in next stitch, continue this around (42 sc)

1 sc in next 6 stitches, 2 sc in next stitch, continue this around (54 sc)

** for newborn size, this is where you would stop increasing and begin 1 sc in each stitch around until hat measures 5” from beginning )**

1 sc in next 7 stitches, 2 sc in next stitch, continue this around (60 sc) (stop here for 3-6 month size)

1 sc in next 8 stitches,  2 sc in next stitch, continue this around (66 sc) (stop here for 6-12 month size)

Now you are finished increasing and will make 1 sc in each stitch around until hat measures approximately 5-7” from beginning. You can make your hat shorter or longer depending on the look  and size you are trying to achieve.

Finish off and weave in all loose ends.

Beak:

With orange yarn, and leaving a 10” tail when starting out, chain 8.

1 sc in each chain across (7 sc)

Chain 1, turn, skip 1^st stitch, sc in next 4 stitches, skip 1 chain, sc in last stitch

Chain 1, turn, skip 1^st stitch, sc in next 4 stitches

Chain 1, turn, skip 1^st stitch, sc in next 3 stitches

Chain 1, turn, skip 1^st stitch, sc in next 2 stitches

Chain 1, turn, skip 1^st stitch, sc in next stitch.

Attach beak to bottom center of hat by using darning/yarn needle to sew to inside of hat. Finish off and weave in all loose ends.

Attach safety eyes evenly spaced above beak.

**Feel free to sell your finished baby bird hats, however please include my website name (http://www.propshop.etsy.com) on all listings. Do not copy, alter or sell pattern.

New Baby Hat Patterns Coming Soon!

Kaylea Brooks bought a taupe flower hat from my shop for her brand new baby girl, Hannah. Kaylea owns White Willow Studio  White Willow Studio, which is a new photography business specializing in wedding and family. I sent Kaylea an extra pixie hat as a way to say "congratulations." Doesn't one-week old baby Hannah look so sweet in both hats!!

                           The pattern for these two hats is coming soon to my Etsy shop Prop Shop .

Crocheting pattern for thick and thin newborn pixie hat coming soon!

Vintage Lace Project #2

I really wish I had a baby so I could put her in this sweet mermaid cocoon baby photo prop with matching headband. I love the way it turned out and I love the added touch of vintage lace. I plan to make a coordinating bikini top to complete this set.

I would be thrilled to find a photographer who could photograph this for me using a newborn baby on the beach. If there are any photographers interested, I will trade you the mermaid cocoon set for five photos. Contact me to let me know : )

Crochet pattern coming soon to my Etsy shop! www.propshop.etsy.com

Bird Nest Pins

I've decided to start making bird nest pins and bird nest hair clips for my Etsy shop (Prop Shop).www.propshop.etsy.com   I think they are pretty cute and they are just $5 (plus $2 domestic shipping and $5 international shipping). Wouldn't they make the perfect stocking stuffer or "just because" gift? I plan to attach them to my springtime baby hat photo props.

                                                                What do you think?

If you want to order the nests directly from me, just send me your email address and I'll email you a PayPal invoice. Be sure to let me know if you want a pin or a hair clip.

Vintage Lace

Awwwwww,  I LOVE this bundle of vintage lace I found on Ebay. For just 20 bucks, I got four pounds of glorious, frilly, girly lace in shades of cream, ecru, white, and tan. I was super excited when I received this huge lot of lace!! When I found out the substitute mail carrier had delivered it to the wrong house, I was not happy. Thankfully, she was kind enough to return to the wrong house, get my package and deliver it to ME : )

My 15-year old daughter, Sarah and I went through the lace together. She kept telling me to just dump it out but I found it much more gratifying to pull out each piece of lace one at a time.
I ended up dumping it out later so I could take a photo.

I can't wait to show you my new Victorian bonnet line for the shop : )

http://www.propshop.etsy.com