Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Toy making

Trying times, we have had a couple of scares, firstly with MiL who is in a care home. We were told by the home that she was not well and they suspected covid, they told us they had given her antibiotics but she was confused.
I immediately rang Mum and had a lovely 37 minute conversation with her, perfectly lucid and perfectly normal.
24 hours later we find out that there are 3 Joyce´s in the home and even though we identified Mum and the family connection, they got the wrong one.
Terribly unnecessary worry and we complained about the lack of attention and questioned their policies.
Then Shine (DiL) was sent home from the care home where she nurses as her immediate colleague had contracted the virus and she had similar symptoms.
She self isolated whilst waiting for test results, which I´m happy to say proved negative.
Phew, and breathe!

I have continued to make toys for Theo, he has grown and changed so much and it´s been so difficult to contend with the fact of not being able to visit. 
I tried to incorporate lots of different elements, such as rattles, crunckles, plush, colourful fabrics and different shapes.
Chris made the support for the mobile using dowl, which he sanded and polished and made it in such a way the arms can be dismantled for posting.

Such a difficult thing to take a good photo!
I used pentagons to make another smaller ball
and a squishy cloud that rattles, a plush butterfly and one that crunkles

A cloth book, using wadding to give it some thickness and the (washed) inside packaging from a box of cereal, just the right sound

The material was a mix of dolphins, cat, ducks and dragonflies, so I added some shapes to match the pages


These multi sensory toys seem very expensive to buy, so I was quite pleased to use items from the stash to give him a variety.

In the meantime, I finished off his hooded jacket, but I wasn´t very pleased with the result, especially as the hood seems to be rather big, but at least it will give him another thing to wear. This jacket was from the same pattern as the last one that just had a collar but it seems to be a little too short. Don´t think I shall bother with the pattern again. Have to have a look through Revelry and see what I can find.

There was enough yarn left to make a pair of bootees too.
One of Rebecca´s friends is expecting a little girl in a few weeks, so I sent along a lilac pair and a light grey with sparkly speckles
The first parcel took nearly 2 weeks to arrive, but the second only took 4 days, I also popped in a bar of dark chocolate so Rebecca had a little something to open too.

On my searches for suitable patterns etc, I came across a site suggesting making toys using household items, some are not suitable at the moment, but one was taking an empty tissue box and stuffing either light scarves or little socks inside that can be pulled in and out. At the end of the day he doesn´t know what toys are, just wants different stimulus.
Thought I would try an owl next, so off to look for some patterns.
take care
xcx


6 comments:

  1. We're living in such worrying times at the moment, you must have been panicking through each of those scares, thank goodness that all was fine in the end. You've been busy with your makes, Theo won't know what to play with first. The post is quite unpredictable at the moment, I sent a box of treats to Daniel and Jasmine and it took a week to get there. Unfortunately, all the chocolate goodies had melted. Oh well.

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  2. I love the mobile and children love having something like that to look at. Lovely toys and handmade is so much nicer too. The jacket looks great.
    Hugz

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  3. Dear Chrissie
    You are making some lovely things which will be so popular, I think.
    Best wishes
    Ellie

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  4. Yes post at the moment is a little unpredictable!
    Love the mobile, in fact love everything you've made.

    Take care.

    All the best Jan

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  5. I love all the toys you have made for Theo they are wonderful. These are the sort of things I would have picked up in charity shops which of course are not open now, or they were passed onto me by other mums. You are right that thy are expensive to buy new, how lovely that you were able to find a way to make them.

    I am not surprised that the hood is big on the cardigan it will need to be as babies have big heads comparatively, I think it is one third of their body at this age?

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