Thursday, June 15, 2006

Patriotic Santa in Progress

I’ve been busy working on Santas. Last year, I mentioned I was creating a patriotic Santa but was “stuck” on how to construct the hat from the pattern I drafted. I put it aside until now. I’m pleased to say the hat is finally finished (!) although I may decide to add some blanket stitching around the edge of the brim. Anyway, here it is on Yancy, my patriotic African-American Santa in progress. I just won an auction on EBAY for a sweet little vintage (48 star) flag for him to hold. I need to add his beard and a few more buttons to his outfit and he’ll be good to go.

Top Hat (Front and Back)

3 comments:

blur.baby said...

Hi Conni....I just now saw your comment on my blog...I'm still around....I've just been busy learning ebay..lol...it's taken a while for me to get the hang of it..Thanks for checking on me... and I LOVE this santa!!! I can't wait to see him finished...
Huggs
iblur

blur.baby said...

waiting for him to grow his beard!!!! hurry up Yancy....=]

Conni said...

Thanks iblur! I'm hurrying but, as the saying goes, "The hurrier I go, the behinder I get."