But I can hardly call sewing up some plushies using my favourite recycled fulled wool sweaters a grind now can I!

Now that I'm feeling better I need to get back to my severely long-and-overdue to-do list, and right at the top is finishing off these plushies for this year's Plush You show.


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He's finally finished!

Lily has been waiting forever and ever and ever and ever and I swear she has boundless paitience.


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One of my favourite things is to play with new ideas, and try out new techniques.

I wanted to get a sort of ram's horn look (without the crazy twists that some of those rams have), so I left the seams on the outside and cut them a little bit raggedy and a little bit crinkly.

What do you think?


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We're expecting a maximum top of 10 degrees C today (that's 50F for you people over there), so it's reached the time of year where you drag out the polar fleece. Not attractive, but it's warm and that's what counts! Fancy having to wear a scarf indoors!


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Chibi Illidan looks so pouty. Aww, he needs a nap.


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Oops.

Hectic family Easter events meant that I had to put the Little Girl aside for a few days, and she was very quiet while sitting and waiting patiently for her hair to be finished!

I had planned on black hair but it just didn't suit her - it looked very harsh against her pale skin. So I popped down and grabbed some Cleckheaton Nurture (hand-dyed ( Read more... )

9:00pm
Well just a few hours between my last update and now... coughcough. I may or may not have had a little tantrum, but to tell you the honest truth it tends to happen each time I'm crafting something major anyway. I'm very hard on myself - a bit of a perfectionist I guess - and very impatient. I put demands on myself to be able to do something ( Read more... )

12:30pm
There's only so much fiddling I can do on paper. Sometimes you've just gotta hack into material and see how it all turns out once it's sewn up and stuffed. Sometimes it's magic first go, sometimes... well... Sometimes you end up with plushies that you have to chain up in the attic and push a tray with food through the door once a day and ( Read more... )

Time to get this show on the road!

9:00am
I have spent the night in preparation, trying to figure out exactly how I want my little girl to look. I have a very good picture in my head but as we all know, making a plush involves 3D crafting, not 2D crafting. Unless I guess you're going for an applique. Which I'm not.

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So you know when you've got heaps of stuff you NEED to do, suddenly there's a whole heap of stuff you WANT to do? And it just won't leave your head alone. You can't sleep, you can't eat, you can't read more than two lines without drifting off into fantastical magical thought about softie heads or stamp designs or fabric combos.


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