Worktable Wednesday: Pattern Making, Blog Changes and More!

I'm making some changes to my blog, the way it looks and what I blog about. I'll also have some free little felty type tutorials, printables and more here for you to enjoy.

I will still show works in progress (wips) of my work for sale, people seem to like to see that, but I'll be offering you something beyond that as a reason to come and see what going on here. 

I'm currently working on 2 to 4 new patterns for St. Patrick's Day and Easter. Two of these patterns are only for my newsletter subscribers (those are a little more complicated and detailed) and the other two are fun free patterns and tutorials just for my blog readers.

 This is one I'm designing for my newsletter subscribers.

I hope you'll continue to stop by and visit for a bit.

My First Try At A Soft Sculpture Piece

St. Patrick's Day is my birthday and we recently discovered some

previously unknown cousins who informed us that our British side

of the family was really Irish so I did a little sketch of an

Irish bear intending on making something cute to honor my

birthday and new found heritage. 

I've never done a soft sculpture before and really didn't

think I was up to the challenge but I had been sewing prototypes

of bears for a while with the intention of doing something like this.

So one day on a whim I just sat down and did it.

He's not entirely finished yet and I'm still working out stability

issues (see the slight tilty lean) but I think I did

suprising well for the first time.

His vest and hat were made completely without a pattern.

He has a female friend that I haven't made yet.

My mom (of course) loved it and has commissioned me

to make one for her friend. I feel kind of weird about it

though since I'm not even finished with this one, and

until I finish I can't begin to think of starting another one.

Anyhoo, what do you all think about this?

I'd love to hear your comments.