Lady Rainicorn and a panda

I've hit the inevitable post-pumpkin slump, so been a bit quiet of late. But that mound of material totally obscuring my stairs to my bathroom isn't going to diminish itself, so I'd best roll my sleeves up soon.

In the meantime, here's a little lady rainicorm

And a panda. Because, why not.

James Baxter! The horse!

From the moment the James Baxter Adventure Time episode aired until this very moment will be a period of time that shall henceforth be known as the period I didn't have a James Baxter embroidery hoop.

Ahh, that crazy horse, always cheering people up.

Oh my glob you guys. I was given 50 metal keyrings, so I guess I should get to it.. 

Adventure Time Embroidery hoop

What time is it?
 Bacon pancake makin' time!

Incidentally, I made bacon pancakes, they are delicious.

Adventure Time BMO Cushion

Who wants to play video games?

BMO *is* camera!

BMO loves Ice King! Well, he doesn't, but it makes me even more determined to make a NEPTR at some point.

Marceline clock

So, I've been wanting to buy (at least one) clock for my house, but I wanted something a little kooky rather than just a boring tick tock. This has been going on for about 3 years now, and I suspected that nothing would live up to my expectations.

Then I saw Alantronics on Etsy. Go check out his shop, it is great. I was almost tempted to buy one, but I wasn't going to spend loads of money on shipping from America. So, in the end I did a blatant rip off of his Marceline clock*. Not having woodworking tools, I used cardboard, with a second layer of cardboard for her hair to make it 3D. It is nowhere near as good as the original, but I'm quite proud - the cardboard was some I had lying around at work, the paints I had, so the only cost was the clock mechanism, which I ripped out of a very cheap (£1.49) clock that I bought at the local nasty cheap shop. So,  in fact the most expensive part were the batteries!

Well, it will do me for a while anyway, and when I get bored I can throw it away guilt free, or make a new design.

* I think that is okay netiquette-wise as I am not selling it

Matching draught excluder and door stop set

OK, no more Adventure Time after today.

The logic behind these went thusly: I genuinely do want a draught excluder, and I thought it had to be either Lady or nyancat, and I figured having a non-functional pop tart/face attached to the rainbow would be finickity. And then yesterday, while brainstorming how else to use up my black and white fluff, the Ice King door stop came to me. Nevermind the fact that I don't have any doors.


Lady Rainicorn looks like she is in the naughty corner. Possibly because she let Jake get to tier 15 with her.

Door stop Ice King, looking sad that he has no snow.

When Ice King is being naughty just tweak him on the nose and lead him wherever you want.

Another assortment of hats

I can't believe it has been nigh on a month since last I posted. It doesn't feel like I've been twiddling my thumbs doing nothing. Perhaps I was just too excited about seeing penguins and going to the Browncoats' Shindig. Anyway, I could claim that I have been making these for the past month but I actually only started them all last week. There are two more to come* but I wanted to post something now and they aren't ready. Plus they are a bit... different so probably deserve a post of their own. Maybe even this evening.

Anyway, make the most of these, as I think I may be done with hats for a while after this batch. I feel my coke cans and pumpkins calling me.


Princess Bubblegum has short hair here, young Peebles perhaps? Either way I just thought this would be cool in that it has built in ear flaps. If I was to make another one I would obviously make a shorter crown. Not sure why I thought it needed to be quite so tall!
(Also - just noticed I left a needle in her jewel. That isn't part of it really!)

I've seen a few Finn hats** floating around the internet. But with all of them, the bottom strap went under the chin. I suppose that would probably be accurate if Finn were a real human, but I wanted to get that block-head sort of look, I mean you can't really see his chin in the cartoon if he looks sideways.

Many of you will have already seen me around sporting these two little puffs of nonsense.
The first is a minion from Despicable Me. A film I really must get round to watching some time. And of course, the second is a bird who is angry, he is a character in some game or other.

 

* three actually, I also made a Cartman hat but it wasn't very exciting and is with the recipient now, perhaps you will get to see it if said person gets proper Cartmanned-up - possibly for Hallowe'en.

***The owners of Whimsical Frippery accept no responsibility for the appearance of any long golden tresses whilst wearing this or any other hat featured on aforementioned website. 

A few silly keyrings

Finn's head as it appears in the opening titles to Adventure Time. For such a very quick and simple design it is a shame I didn't get the embroidery on his mouth quite right. Although it looks worse in this zoomed in picture.

 Gunther! He/she rocks.

I had a small amount of left over brown fluff.

Keyrings

I was going to wait until I had more a collection before showing you these, but I've been sewing all day, I wanted something to put online!

Ice King from Adventure Time. Think his beard grew a bit too long, but nevermind. Now Princesses can get their own back and kidnap Ice King for once!

A susuwatari (soot sprite). In one hand, but not obvious, he is holding a little blue lucky star candy, which he loves. In the other hand, your key (there's a loop at the end of the arm.

Everybody's favourite plucky little robot.

With all of these I packed them really tight with scraps of material, which has given them a nice dense fob-feel to them rather than stuffing.