Monday, March 18, 2013

Travel Size Playscapes

I have been on a major destash mission lately. I searched ravelry for small projects that would help me use up some of my scrap yarn.  In my searches I stumbled across the cutest project to make for my son. It is a travel size playscape.


Can you guess what's in the bag?


Keep Guessing...


Quack Quack. Two little ducks swimming in the pond. But these aren't any ordinary ducks. They are little finger puppets.


This is such a fun toy. My son is really having a great time playing with his ducks. I plan to use this little playscape for story telling. It will be perfect for telling the story of the Ugly Duckling.
The pattern is called Duck Pond Playset and can be found here.

The following day I was inspired to modify this pattern to make a portable racetrack for my son's cars. I had seen a pattern for a racetrack rug on ravelry but thought that this would be more manageable. So here is my creative juice baby lol.

It came out just how I had imagined. I do wish the track was a bit wider though.
I used stash gray yarn for the track and white for the drawstring.
My changes from the original Duck Pond Playset pattern are as follows:
Follow pattern up to round 10 substituting green for blue and black or gray for green.
Round 10: Ch 1. *2 sc in nest st. sc in next 8 sts. Repeat from * sl st. at end of round to connect round. 60 st. total
Round 11: Same as original pattern's round 10
Round 12: Ch. 1. sc in each stitch around.
Round 13: Change to green yarn. Chain 2. Dc in each st. around. sl st in first st in round. Finish off.

Drawstring done in white: ch 80. Add a matchbox car.





This week I am linking up with Craft-o-maniac.com's Monday Link Party Frontier Dreams' KCCO, CrunchyCatholicMomma's Stash Bash, and NaturalSuburbia's Creative Friday.

14 comments:

  1. Visiting from KCCO...I love these little playscapes. So fun! You're giving me some ideas for our small world playtime...

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  2. Oh, wow...and congrats on the length of your breastfeeding relationship with your little one! I breastfed my daughter until she was 25 1/2 months and sadly had to wean because I am expecting again and suffer from hyperemesis gravidarum (after two trips to the hospital for rehydration we realized I was unable to stay hydrated enough for myself and the new baby, let alone to nurse). It was sad, but I am so grateful she and I were able to make it as long as we did. I hope you two are able to enjoy as many months and years as you are able. :-)

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    1. Thank you Michele for stopping by. Congratulations! I hope the best for you and your family. I love these playscapes to. There really are endless possibilities. I sometimes can't believe how long I am breastfeeding. I struggled so much in the beginning. It is amazing how quickly the time goes.

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  3. That's so cute! Everything else will be on hold tomorrow, I'm going to make some. The race track is a great idea.

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    1. Thank you Emma. It is so easy to make too. It only took me about an hour.

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  4. love your ducks, i made them too for a fairy tale. you can find them on my blog ;)

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    1. Thank you for stopping by. I love the little ducks too. I will check out you blog.

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  5. The ducks and the racetrack are both lovely ideas.

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  6. I love those little play sets. That has given me great ideas of things to make for my nieces.

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    1. Thank you Amy. Please do share what you come up with.

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  7. That is so cute what a great idea!

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