Stuffed Unicorn

A while ago, Claire found a scrap of fabric and announced to Julie that she needed me to make her a stuffed horse with a saddle. (The saddle was very important.) Once Claire found out I was moving closer, she was very excited that I could bring my sewing machine to her house. (Julie also started lining up sewing projects it wouldn't have made sense to mail me.) I started looking for a pattern and found one for Henry the Horse in Jill Hamor's book, Storybook Toys. Claire loves unicorns so we added a horn. It came out fairly well considering my lack of experience with 3D patterns.

Christmas Fish

Amanda and Chris have fish, so I decided to make a Christmas fish ornament. As soon as I finished it, I wondered why I had only made the face white. I should have added white elsewhere.

Dimensions: 5" x 4"

Pink and Orange Elephants

The colors for Julie's baby showers are pink and orange and the theme is elephants. Here is the elephant from her invitations:

She pinned this elephant baby shower inspiration board, so I found the stuffed elephant pattern online and made two of the tiny elephants with just a couple alterations.

First, I added 1/4" seam allowance all the way around the shapes. Second, I used the button hole stitch for the eyes since these are the tiny elephants and the oval stitch would have been too big.

This elephant has a different fabric on the back on the ear 

because I didn't have enough orange for both sides:

Finished size: 4" x 5.5" x 2"

Green Flannel Bears

Several years ago, I made a little bear out of green corduroy. I used the same pattern to make this little trio out of leftover flannel:

They are about 8" high. Of course I hadn't saved the pattern, and it took quite a lot of searching online to find it again. I don't really enjoy stuffing animals, but I was motivated to use up this flannel, the noses and eyes, and scraps of quilt batting. I save way too many batting scraps that are really only useful as stuffing.

The flannel was leftover from this bear, which I made in approximately 2002:

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More Mice

I made a second set of mice as toys for Tyco and Cleo, using a pattern with some adjustments. They are not quite as cute as the first pair.

Here are the kitties enjoying their new toys:

Cleo                                        Tyco

Pin Cushion Cat Toys

Tyco and Cleo needed some toys. I came across this tutorial for these mice pin cushions you can wear on your finger and thought they would be perfect.

ETA - Tyco enjoying the pink mouse:

Green Dragon

This is why I made the pink dragon as a prototype back in May:




The quilt may have dinosaurs rather than dragons, but who doesn't love wings?

Sock Owl

This little project is from the book Socks Appeal by Brenna Maloney. There is an online tutorial for this project, but I think I'm going to have to get the book because I love socks. Of course I'm trying to cut back on making craft projects just because I they're cute, but Sock Owl can be friends with my bats, (which could probably be made of out socks too!) and my felt owl.

Of course I didn't follow the directions completely. The wings are supposed to be made out of the toes, but I wanted striped wings and fortunately this sock was a little bigger than the one in the tutorial (he ended up being 6" tall) so I had plenty of sock to work with. Here's how I cut open the bottom of the sock instead:

Hexagon Turtle

I saw this turtle on One Pretty Thing. There was a tutorial on Craft Passion. It was just so cute, I decided to attempt the hexagons. I had never attempted hexagons and really had no desire to until I saw this little project. They came out fairly well, but I don't think I'll be attempting another hexagon project. The shell is about 3"x4". Head to tail and flipper to flipper are both about 6".

Dragon Prototype

I was actually looking for dinosaur pattern when I found this dragon. I knew I wanted a dinosaur with ridges on its back, and this was the closest I'd found. At first I thought I would adapt it, but without the wings, it just looks like a lizard, and wings are awesome. I'm not the best at sewing from patterns, so this was just a trial to see how it would turn out. I was pleased to find scraps from my flannel quilt to use for the test. I opted not to stuff it with a bean bag. It's about 13" long and 7" wide.

Bats

I saw a pattern for knitting bats, but I don't know how to knit. They were just too cute to pass up, so I decided to make some up out of felt.

Corduroy Bear

I really wanted to make a stuffed bear out of my old green corduroy pants. Unfortunately, his bean stuffing does not allow him to support his head in a sitting position, but I think he's really cute anyway.