I have been adapting the pattern that I created for my rucksack style cases for a while now so it was no surprise to see how I could change them again to suit the cold weather and my thoughts of the snow days earlier on in the year. It seemed a natural progress to see if I could create a snowman (or two) version. making the basic body was very straightforward as it was to be created just in white wool with no adaptation to the pattern required at all. It didn't even need any new parts making for it either.
So with the basic phone case rucksack made I thought I would have a go at doing a mini version at the same time. My mini rucksacks up until now have just been decorated on the flap, I haven't tried to do any of my character phone cases so this would be a first. Now to think about how to decorate them. Normally I do a twisted chord for the tie to get into the case but I wanted something different. Snowmen traditionally have a scarf so I thought I would have a rummage through my ribbon boxes to see if I had something suitable and found several that I thought I could use for great effect. Now onto the rest of the features: the face and the buttons down his (or hers) front. As snowmen used to have coal for eyes and buttons I thought I would use different size black buttons and for the mouth I had some flat back gems as my buttons did not go down that small. The last thing to add was a felt triangle to act as a carrot for a nose.
I love how these have turned out as with just a few adjustments the snowmen can have very different characters. I like how the different ribbons give different effects. I would like to work out how I can make a mini hat and sew it on their heads but that's for the future ones, for now I am really pleased with how they look and they are much kinder on your hands to make than the real thing as you don't get such cold fingers!
