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The toy department

25/12/2013

 
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Christmas is upon us, and not YET being a world famous artist with oodles of cash, I decided to make my christmas presents this year (actually I made a deal with some tiny elves who did the work while I lay around mooning. In exchange I told them they could live in my sewing box rent free, they're quite happy). In my search for ideas and patterns I found a great website called Craft Passion I love her taste in materials and her whole site is just a nice place to look around! Its where I found the happy elephant and the macaroon purse tutorials. The macaroon purses will be great on car keys for the parking meter! They are also almost edible. I made the flowerpot purse design up, but was inspired by her idea to use jeans to make roses! The bunny is a funny creature. I sort of copied a bunny toy I have but of course it came out quite differently from the original! I actually got quite into playing with it, and I kind of adore its deranged expression. I made another bunny for my God-daughter - but hers was an original too (I called it tibbar) It was patchwork, white wool and blue grey checked material (from some old pyjamas!)and was suitably whimsical, it had to get sent quite quickly so never met its cousin who we see here - red rabbit. I absolutely love making little toys, they really quickly take on a character. As soon as you lay out their little skins fronts and backs its like you have a creature in your hands, so I could get very distracted sewing. Suffice to say, its really fun.

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