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.
