Wow ok so I really have to stop making a habit of this posting once a month. Although I guess it's better than posting once every TWO months right?!
Anywho I have been doing a little bit of creating!
After dreaming all night about buying red-with-white-polkadot things for Leonie (her fav colour combo) I woke up with the inspiration needed to finish off an idea I had had a few days beforehand. Sadly for NZ the lovely Leonie from Kiwi At Heart is moving back to aussie :-( BOO HOO!! She has become a great IRL friend after meeting originally at a Whangarei Bloggers Meet up back in February (thanks to Jacksta-B's organisational skills .. seen here) So I thought, being the crafty person she is, I'd better make her something to take with her .. and help with moving in some small way!
After thinking about what I could make, and looking up at my stack of suitcases .. I remembered what was handy when I was travelling .. red ribbon tied to my bag made it really easy to spot and differentiate from all the other bags as they came through the conveyor belt.
Luckily I had some red-with-white-polkadot fabric already so I whipped up a pattern for a tiny rabbit to attach with ribbon to her bag (one of the MANY bags aye Leonie hehe).
Here is the first draft:
I thought I was being really clever by sewing the ribbons in from the ears .. what an egg I am .. I sewed them to the INSIDE of the ears (if you look close Leonie, you'll see remnants of the ribbons hehe)
So .. DON'T DO THIS: (if you wanted the ribbons to come out of the ears, pin the ribbons ON TOP of the fabric, not between!)
Here is the finished product pre-ribbon attachment .. with his little pearl tail (you can't really tell his size, but he's about the length of my hand .. I have small hands so about 15cm:
Hello I'm Leonie's rabbit!
I sewed on a long piece of ribbon so it can be tied securely to the bag:
Of course, when my kids saw what I'd made THEY wanted one too! I thought to myself "sure thing - it didn't take too long to make that one .." BAD IDEA!
I went to sort through my fabric to make another teddy and found some left over cow-print fabric from a jacket I made LONG ago and thought it would be a GREAT idea to make a cow for Master 2 1/2.
REAL clever me thought it wouldn't be too hard to make a quite large one. (said with sarcasm)
It took me the rest of the morning to make Mr. Moo aka "cuddle" - and halfway through I was thinking "why oh why did I ever start this!!"
Luckily for me it has been well loved already and it's pretty good if I do say so myself considering I had no idea what I was doing and made it all up as I went along!
Here is the final product (this one's about 60cm from toes to head):
SOoo that's enough posting for me today! Hopefully I'll get a bit more on to it this month and do at least ONE more before the month is over!
Sima J