SNEAK PEEK!

I'm not telling you what it is yet though!

In this business of show, you have to have the heart of a lion, and the hide of an elefant.

Earlier today I saw a very cute elephant on etsy, and it made me think that cute elephants might be within my stuffed animal reach. So, I threw together a pattern, scoured my bins for fabric that would be elephant friendly, and got to work. His (her?) eyes are gold, I might've been able to sew them with brown thread instead of using buttons if I had wanted to work on the project for longer than I did (this was about an hour, hour and a half of work). I thought about adding a tail on the butt-end, but then forgot about it when I was actually sewing the pieces together. Whoops... And, yes, I realize that the back side of the ears is the side usually facing out/forward, and the inner ear is usually the hidden side, but I took a little license with elephant genealogy for the sake of visual contrast. The tutu thing was a whim.

If I make another elephant, I think I will need to remember to place the tail in before sewing, and I'll want to move the trunk up a little bit, it looked fine when I was drawing it out, but on the finished product is mildly confusing where the head/leg/trunk all fit together. I also ran out of stuffing near the end of the stuffing process and had to take batting and rip it apart to simulate stuffing. It stuffs up pretty sturdy in the midsection because of this, but really.. there is nowhere within ten minutes of my apartment that I would be able to purchase stuffing, and a little sturdiness in the middle is mildly appropriate- it IS an elephant after all. Also the back leg is thicker than the front. Didn't pay close enough attention to my home-made pattern there.

Apologies on the flash in the second image.

A Blanket, made some time ago

I made this blanket quite a while ago now, it started as a way to play around with some skein ends that I had floating around, and ended up turning into a blanket with all different weights of yarn, a couple of granny squares when I learned how to make those (my first is in here!), some of the yarn dating back to my older brother's baby blanket... I thought the design would be nice for my friend Chris W., but unfortunately he and I are both very busy and I haven't had a chance to get it to him yet. If you still want it, it's yours!

A Rug!

A red rug to match the red walls. Some friends moved, and we all know I loooooove making moving gifts (I do!), so I pulled together a rug to match the walls they painted red in their basement (also living space. not storage like mine). Because really, who likes to wake up and walk all over the cold linoleum and freeze their little toes off?