Brain slug

I've made a brain slug before but I now see that my method then was not the wisest way of doing it. This pattern is way better, plus had the wiser idea of using a hair band rather than a hair grip. I think I may have to give up my day job and make these full time from the way everyone asked for one when we paid a visit to the pub.

 Apparently I can't do a vacuous look (beyond the one that I always wear)

Jayne hat phone cover

My new phone has been shamefully naked for far too long. No more!

Here's the back, only a little bit different from the front so I don't know why I bothered showing you really.

Oh check out the cute nails I have!

Star Wars hand puppets

Princess Leia is all..give me a hug!

" Gggggaaaaaaarrrrr. Arrrrhhhn."
 

"Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm"
That being said, he is '4-6 year old hand'-sized, as indeed they all are.

"Luke, you are getting scrabble and a pogo stick for christmas"
"Wow, dad, how did you know?"
"I have felt your presents"

The gang, just hanging out.

"Will someone get this walking carpet out of my way?"
 

 Lord Vader, I should have known. Only you could be so bold.

Yoda defeats Vader! Obviously holding the camera meant I only had one hand to do the puppeteering, and my hand didn't really fit, but you get the idea. I hope you appreciate yoda's little bow at the end.

Felt Fob Friday - Fox

Something I learned while making this smug little fox: in Japanese folk tales, leaves are important things for foxes. When a fox puts a leaf on the head and does a somersault, he can transform into anything. Upon learning this I meant to give him a little leaf on his head but I forgot.

And, in honour of shark week (aw, who am I kidding? In honour of Sharknado week, about which everyone at work has been terribly excited):

He looks a bit more like a whale, but you goes with the material at hand. This took under half an hour to make, so if I had the fleece and the inclination I would make a dozen of them and have a sharknado mobile..

Felt Fob Friday - Owl

Here's a little keyring I made while waiting for the Ocado delivery man. Owls are very 'in' at the moment, so I am trendy.

 

And if you need closure on the Ocado delivery story, the guy never came. Turns out I was 15 days too early. Oops.

Felt Fob Friday - guinea pig

Sorry, I know I promised you a post with the exciting big things I'd been working on, but my stupid camera deleted all the photos I took. Which is annoying but I'll not lose any sleep. So instead, you get a guinea pig keyring. Kind of just looks like a blob of fur, but now I think about it, that is what guinea pigs really look like. Fur with built in wheek! wheek! wheek! sounds.

I know better than to make promises for future posts, but I will just say that shark week is approaching and inspiring me a little.

Felt Fob Friday - K9

This was supposed to be posted yesterday but it has taken me this long to work out how to post photos on blogger from this computer. It proved to be harder than expected.

I was planning to give K9 a neck, but that sort of thing usually makes the head wobbly and liable to fall off if tugged, so I didn't. But wish I had now.

 

View from the top

 

Also, as an apology for the post delay, a fluffy D20 dice, requested by Doug. I had more pictures to show the size etc but either I am looking in the wrong place or they have been sacrificied to the pixel god in the sky. I did point out to Doug that a plush D20 would be nothing other than a round ball but he didn't seem to mind. I don't think he is planning to play with it

Keyfob Friday - dog

I made two little keyrings for this week but one of them needs improving, so here's a little spotty puppy for you.

Too many puppies are getting shot in the dark. Too many puuuuppies

He has a spot over his eye and one brown ear. Woof.

Keyfob Friday - squirrel

Find yourself mourning the end of Friday fiction? If so, I bring you felt fob Friday!

Having given so many keyrings away, the banister of my stairs (to either end of which a length of string is tied for the hanging of keyrings) is looking ... rather like a boring banister, so I thought I'd better make some more.


This little chap is a tiny squirrel, just shy of 7cm tall.

Sherlock Kindle cover

I decided for this one to make an elasticated top to the kindle cover, I am not sure if I like it or not. Anyway, here he is.

"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose." 

With the kindle slightly out

Happy elephant

It has been suggested that I am a little niche in my craftings, a little bit too ... nerdy for a lot of people. So, here is something non geeky that I made for my bedroom. It hangs above the stairs where I will meet it at eye level every morning when I get up.

The elephant's ears and nose are 3D!

And after about 13 years of having a stuffed gorilla called Ronnie with no nose (no jokes), I finally got round to fixing him. He also had a nice fur brush as well, so Ronnie is feeling about as dapper as a 15 year old gorilla can feel. Happy Ronnie!

Some sewn animals for my 100th post

Believe it or not, I actually bought a pattern for this little fella - I never buy patterns usually but the finished results looked so good. And I wouldn't like to say anything negative about the shop because the lady seemed sweet, but I can't help but thinking his bum is too small, ears too big...

...and the claim that he is life-sized is... intriguing.

 I originally wanted to make a fake guinea pig so that I could dress it up, deeming that to be less sad than making clothes to dress up my real pigs in. Jury is still out on the relative sadnesses.

Nevertheless - had to be done...

A giant fake guinea pig dressed as a bee.

 

And then there's this little penguin

 

 And finally this wire armature dragon. It looks really bad in the photos because I am not very good at taking pictures of small painted things. In real life it is still pretty flawed but in different ways. Which is annoying.

His arms and legs are wired and thus posable, as are the wings.

A couple of keyrings for transport

I made a little bike for Peter as a housewarming. Fun fact, this was about the 5th attempt at making this on account of the fact that apparently I don't really know what a bike looks like. In the end I took a photo of a painted bike on the cycleway.

Andy asked me to make a camper van and after many aborted attempts I made something that was a bit like a misshapen cousin of a camper van. Apparently transport keyrings simply stump me. Anyway, I have since made this feltie (rather than a plush, in other words more 2d than 3d) which is ... better than before.

Little pocket at the back

Portal tissues, minion and hamster keyrings and some whimsical frippery of the most fripperous order

A Portal companion cube tissue box cover.
For no tissue, toilet paper or general absorbancy-related product in my house shall be on show

I will hold my hands up to being a bit slap dash when it comes to sewing, edges meet up 'close enough' and the concerpt of seam allowance is alien to me. But to make sure I got this totally square and neat I measured everything and even used large numbers of pins. Little bit proud.

A cute little hamster. Just because

This little fella didn't work out right. I need to make the yellow part larger. I don't have much yellow fleece left (but plenty for this) so I was scrimping - talk about your false economies!

Sometimes, I just like to make fig leaves. Actually, this was a request, and there was sort-of logic behind it. I've spent a lot of time trying to work out which angle the fig should be at after someone said it should be stalk pointing upwards (no giggling at the back) but there appears to be no strong leaning towards that in art.

Dang I should dust my mirror.

 

On the under side.