Worktable Wednesday: Penguin Felt Plush Pattern Launch and a Nursey Art Piece Wip

I launched my 2nd PDF Felt Pattern! I'm really so very proud of this! Being in the hospital and having to take it easy when I came home really set my plans back and this pattern launched later than I expected. But it's up and available now!

This felt penguin pdf pattern comes with 2 face designs. I just love that sleepy/bashful eye design!

 You can make a regular colored penguin or a whole colorful rainbow of felt penguins!

This felt penguin plush is a nice size for pretend play. Not small enough to loose and not too big to go on adventures. Kids who play Club Penguin would really enjoy this plush.

I'm currently working on a add-on felt pattern set that will be listed soon. So keep your eye out for this!

More worktable projects this week include:

A Fairy Tale Felt Nursery Art Piece. My upstairs neighbors are having a baby, they actually just got home from the hospital last night so I'm super behind on getting this piece done for them It's a gift so no time frame to worry about, but I'm super busy and trying to fit this in my schedule is challenging.

I had already done research for it previously so at least that part was done. I had also made a rough sketch of an basic idea I liked. This is seriously rough you guys so don't laugh!

 After looking at popular baby bedding in this theme I decided to change from a cottage to a castle. 

 I refined the idea a little more to a castle coming out of a book.

Then I made a life size sketch of the design. Normally I'd make this on the computer, very neat and precise but I just don't have time so I'm winging it. 

 I started cutting out felt last night. I'm starting at the bottom and working my way up. I hope this turns out as nice as it looks in my head!

Worktable Wednesday: Shooting Cover Photos of My New Penguin Pattern

Weeks and weeks worth of work went into this pattern. There are 2 add-on patterns that go with this pattern that I'll be revealing and launching sometime in June too.

Honestly as much as I love this pattern, I'd be happy not to see it again for a while, lol!

Being in the hospital kind of set me back a bit on this so instead of a big splashy countdown launch, I'm just going to quietly put this in my shop in the next few days. 

Here's the final cover design.

Subscribe to my newsletter and find out the exact date, plus there will be a giveaway of one of the prototypes soon. Don't miss out!

 

 If you like making fun felt things or penguins or both, I hope you'll come check it out!

Update on Sassyland

I haven't blogged in a bit because my mom had knee replacement surgery and all I was working on was those 300 penguin ornament wedding favors. Kind of boring stuff really. Well the good news is my mom is doing really well after her surgery and is back to doing most things again so my time of taking care of her was short. The other good news is that I finally finished those darn penguins! And on time too!

After this project I was feeling really burned out. I have a directionless feeling. Not sure if the path I set myself on is the right one. Should I continue making my felt dolls? Should I spend more time doing paper clay dolls? Should I go back to making plush dolls? So many questions and no answers yet. Do any of you ever feel this way?

After sitting around resting for a few days I felt the itch to start making something. Luckily I had a doll body pre-made weeks ago so I could just dive right in. I set myself a goal to try and have one of my creations published so I grabbed on to that idea to keep me motivated.

Here she is in her glory. Her face is done now but I'm not going to show that yet. But I'll show her shoes.

I'm not a great beader so I'm just trying to give the idea of a.....well it's a moccasin. I hope it looks like one. It took me 2 days to do just this one.

I am still working on my Vintage circus piece too after setting it aside for a month. I made the trick rider for the horse and discovered that the weight of the doll was too much for the horse's legs to support. ARRRGGGHHHH!!!! I re-did the joints and the problem is solved. The horse now has his costume finished too.

Here is the rider WIP. She now has a head but I rushed doing it and she's a very ugly girl. I'm trying to decide if I should re-do her head or just go with it.

Anyhoo just in case you were wondering what I've been up to...there it is.

Rainy Day and Monday In The Studio.

I finished a crazy amount of felt penguin ornaments over the weekend. I made a ton to be in stock and ready to ship and once they're gone that's it. I completed about 30 of them before I realized I forgot to sew the tags in them...UGH! Oh well, I ended up leaving them all tag less.
I already sold a set right after listing them! Yay!

Here's all 12 colors.

They are sold in sets of 3 and here 

is a new color combo for this year.

I bought out all the mini buttons I use for their eyes but I need more. I have a ton of white ones in the same size so I think I may try and dye them. Any suggestions on that would be most helpful.

In the process of cutting out some new holiday plush designs. Not sure how they will turn out yet so I'll hold off on showing them until I work the kinks out. Trying very hard to use what little time I have to myself to create.

Facebook Giveaway

I'm having a giveaway for all my Facebook fans. Nothing to do just fan/like me and you are entered. I'll pick one winner from my list on June 30th. The prize is one of my new penguins. They come in 10 colors and you can pick any color you like. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy! Tell your penguin loving friends. 

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You know you want one!