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Thursday
Dec092010

Bag of the Week 49

Angel Pail

Back in February of this year I featured a Snowman Pail by Farmyard Creations.  This Angel Pail is another one of their patterns, though I took a lot of liberty with the details.  The outer pail fabric is layered onto batting and the fused appliqué is then stitched with a machine blanket stitch.  French knots are added for the eyes and the cheeks are blushed with powder blusher.   The pattern calls for loops of ribbon for the hair but I chose to wrap jute onto knitting needles (wet with spray starch first) and use the resulting ringlets as the hair, topped with a ribbon bow.  The wings are 3-dimensional and the sign around the angel’s neck was machine embroidered with a favorite saying of mine (the pattern suggests hand embroidering “an angel is someone like you”).   The quilted handle is attached with buttons.

I recently dressed up one of these pails with a paper-wrapped can nestled in some glittery tissue paper designed to hold some holiday goodies.  I also think this would make a great way to corral all of the greeting cards I receive during the holidays.  You can occasionally find these out of print patterns on Ebay.