The Olympic Torch passed through our community this week. It was an exciting event for our family and we loved all the celebrations around it.In preparation for the event, I went shopping for Canada or Olympic clothing to wear along the road and we cheered for our local torch bearers. Many others had thought the same thing, because I was unable to find any touques or mittens. So I decided to make black fleece touques with a Canadian maple leaf, for all of us.
The torch has a long way to go to get to Vancouver yet, so if you are a sewer or quilter and you live west of New Brunswick, why not make Canada Touques for your entire family.
Here is my "Sew a Canadian Touque" Tutorial for you. I have incorporated some quilting techniques to give it a special oomph. If you make some touques, be sure to take a picture and blog about it, then leave me a comment. I'd love to see!!!
Enjoy the flame Canada. It is awesome to see.
2 comments:
I love this touque... I think I will make one for Terry. I hate applique though.. but I guess I can try it this once and put a fun maple leaf on the front. Thanks for putting on the tutorial. It will be a good resource every winter
Cute toque!
Another option is to bundle up in the comfort of your own home and watch the torch relay retrospective videos. Here's a video as it went through New Brunswick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uof8NJm8p0A
I suppose it's not as exciting as the real thing though.
There are more videos about New Brunswick here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoRwlncuyxk
Feel free to pass them on to friends and family or readers of this site.
Enjoy!
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