I tend to go through crafting cycles. Right now I have little motivation to mix resin or, lets face it, sand it (sorry, voyager. I promise you will receive your stuff). Right now it’s back to the sewing and embroidery machine. I also found the cutest Pokemon designs on Etsy (apparently they don’t try to beat their fandom into dust by wielding the copyright maze heavyhandedly)
The technique used here is called “in the hoop” embroidery, which means you’re not just embroidering some designs onto fabric, but assemble the whole project more or less with the embroidery machine while your fabric remains in the embroidery hoop.
These neat pouches are a combination of an in the hoop design from Urban Threads a long time ago and the Pokemon applique I already used on the mask.
©Giliell, all rights reserved
©Giliell, all rights reserved
©Giliell, all rights reserved
They are also neat ways to use scraps because you only need a bit more than a letter size piece of fabric.
Next one was created by sewing the individual pieces in the hoop and the assembling them by hand. It’s not a toy I’d hand to a baby (but I got lots of baby suitable plushie designs anyway), but aren’t they cute?
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The little one( meaning my kid) “borrowed” the larger one (meaning the Eevee) and the told me the next day that Eevee had called her mummy and she couldn’t return it now because you mustn’t separate babies from their mums. Yes, I got a smart kid. It’s not the first plushie that she adopted by emotionally blackmailing the original owner. Not that I wouldn’t have simply given it to her anyway…
Now for the cost of those: this is not a way to save money. I had the fabric for the larger one lying around, but of course I needed (cough) some better fabric for the small one, so between the design and the fabric (though there’s still quite some left for more of them) I’m down 50 bucks and of course I could simply have bought two Eevee plushies for that money…
Those are delightful! You are a wizard of sewing, and I love seeing your work.
These are so adorable. I want to try the “in the hoop” stuff but have not had a chance yet. That is so cool the entire project can be done that way.
On fabric: oh yes. “You’ll use up all your scraps!” they say. “Your stash will start to shrink!” they tell you. HA. I made some placemats with scraps and OF COURSE I then had to go buy a big piece of fabric for the backing, so they’d all match. Oh, and yeah, I had to buy more fabric for the binding. So now I have more scraps. It’s all a scam, I tell you. Once you have a sewing machine you are doomed to a mountain of scraps. ;-)
No Worries, Giliell. Those are adorable. It’s no wonder that your kids must love the things you make.
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I love them, because they#re usually fairly quick and then you have a nice result in your hand. Definitely something you can do for a quick ego boost. let me know if I can lend you some files.
Yep, especially when you’ve also been taught NOT TO WASTE STUFF. In know when I sorted some of my grandma’s stuff there were three dozen or so one inch trouser hems where she’d shortened the trousers and kept the hems so she’d have some scraps to repair the trousers, but of course they weren’t thrown out once the trousers themselves were gone…
And yes, at the start of the mass-mask production my scraps did get used. And then people gave me fabric and then I bought more fabric… Not to mention the nice minky I bought for the Pokemon.
It’s more like “there’s a good chance I can at least start that project.”