Toys for Anthropologie are almost finished !

Elephants standin' at attention!!

This has been quite an operation, and thanks to excellent skill of many fellow local crafters we are nearing the end of this project.

Toys for Anthropologie !

I am thrilled that Anthropologie will have my penguins and elephants in their stores! Every one will be made from recycled fabrics, each will be unique. Piggy only wishes that he could be featured there, too. some day....at least he made it to back cover!

Little Mouse- E-Z project

 *    LITTLE MOUSE = FUN FOR KITTY    *
LITTLE MOUSE = FUN AND EASY TO MAKE
      * ingredients = striped T-shirts, felt tail
       * make one in bed when you're sick!

my brand new leopard skin pillbox....

 

well it's not exactly a pillbox hat, but I was

feelin' wild on the snowy slopes with my 

hand made leopard print super warm hat 

(lined with grey fleece) -- made from a recycled 

vest that had a really bad shape.

Teeny-toys-n-the-flu

I had a terrible cold this past two weeks, and discovered a new love -- sewing tiny toys. I am not a big fan of staying in bed. So, I got really comfy with my Puffs and scraps and stuff, and started cutting and stitching, everything's really close your face and you can really get in there and enjoy the particular joy that verges on the ecstatic when stitching into sweater pieces. Tiny toys are so easy to handle, you don't have to set up the machine and you hardly need any pieces or filling.

Craft Flow

Just a note about getting into the flow of making things. I rarely know exactly what I am going to make, but surround myself with everything I love: stacks of colorful fabrics, scraps too, paint, paper, pencils, pens, my computer, music, all of it in a 10 x 12 foot space--everything is close by so when I am READY TO CRAFT something is bound to happen. I've been home sick for a few days now, and I always feel a little lucky when this happens. Crafting keeps my mind off feeling cruddy, and by the time today was through I'd painted three little paintings on paper, and worked out four mini-fabric toys that I am pretty excited about. It turns out that TEENY toys are even more fun, and easier to make, that an average sized toy. You can make them all with hand stitching, and you hardly need any stuffing for filler. Each little toy took 1-2 hours to make. So all in all-not a bad day to be home sick. Tomorrow I gotta get out of the house. Then back to crafting !

 

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It's 4 am and I'm up with a sniffly nose, and I can't resist putting a final touch in this guy's face.  I found the world's cutest tiniest button, which I used for the nose. It's green and measures about 1/8" in diameter.

 

Correction /Missing Pattern Piece

http://crafternews.crownpublishing.com/2011/01/21/corrections-to-make-your-own-toys-by-sue-havens/