Worktable Wednesday: Felt Craft Pattern Almost Finished!

This felt craft add on pattern for my previous felt Penguin pattern is almost done. The template pages and the cover still need a bit of tweaking but this will be in my shop soon.

I'm So Excited!

I'm really excited about this set of felt patterns. You'll get 2 ways to do glasses for the Penguin, a cute beret hat, a satchel and a fish dinner, all in one pattern. All my patterns have step by step photos and instructions to guide you along the way.

If this pattern goes well, and I really hope it does! I have other pattern ideas for a whole series of play set type things for the Penguin to do. 

Sneak Peek! 

 You are the first to see the completed set on the Penguin! Isn't this so adorable?!
 

So Very Busy!

I've been working on a lot of back end stuff lately for my business: Cleaning up my Pinterest boards, updating older blog posts, connecting series of post together and trying to finish the Porter the Penguin add on pattern.

I have also made good progress on the felt castle nursery art, but a nasty case of what I suspect is vertigo is making being on the computer a challenge. I can't do my work without at least some time on the computer so I'm just pushing forward as best I can.

Next Pattern Coming Up! 

 I'll re-design this old felt seahorse pattern of mine. This is a simple pattern but I think I'll add some more easy to do details to make this pattern special.
 

So keep your eye out for this felt seahorse pattern to launch this summer! I'll do posts about the designing and making of it too.

What's Next?

Very soon I'll be working on my (maybe Halloween?), Christmas and Winter Holiday Patterns for sure for the Fall. So far my ideas are felt ornaments and possibly easy to make plush characters.

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Sneak Peeks

O.k. after rambling on and adding more drama to my life over this camera situation I found a work around to get my photos off the camera. I won't tell how cause it just makes me feel incredibly stupid plus there are some computer settings involved in the whole thing. Needless to say crisis averted!

Here is the sneak peek of the paper clay piece I wanted to show last week. It's done now but it's too gray and rainy to take proper photos.

I had a bit of a major freak out over this bunny's legs and him not being able to stand on his own. Well a re-design and 4 hours later he's all good. This is for the Vintage Easter Challenge and Swap.

Now that I can get photos off my camera again I'll have more to show. So stay tuned or whatever.

A Very Tiny Sneak Peek.

I've been steadily working on new plush designs specifically for STUFFED magazine. They are different from what you've seen me do before. I can't really show what I'm doing. It's partially a jinx thing and partially cause I want their debut to be in STUFFED. Of course if they aren't accepted (I might cry but I'll get over it) then I'd show them. I've given myself a deadline of next weekend to have them finished and ready to ship.

One of my twitter friends, Joni has been asking to see something on these new plush so here's a sneak peek. Well I did say peek, didn't I?

So far I have one almost done (he needs clothes) One 3/4ths done, one not even a 1/4 done and the last one is only a body with no details at all. So you can see I have a lot to do in a short amount of time.

In case you are interested, the bodies are a pattern of my own making, obviously. The clothes and details of all my plush and dolls are freehand and I usually make them up as I go along which is time consuming. I change my mind a lot and usually end up with something completely different than I intended when I first started.

Here's a small hint. I was working on my custom stationery business doing an invitation and favor stickers in a Princess and Pirate theme and had a "light bulb" moment for these plush. And that's all I'm saying.

Witch Doll Sneak Peek

I was hoping for a very productive weekend but because of my crazy allergies that didn't happen. I did almost finish the first witch doll. She's still armless so can't cast spells on me to hurry me along...lol. But that's all so I thought I'd show some quick sneak peeks of her.

Witchy hair

Skirt

That's all for now. Hope to have some other WIPs to show later this week. I'm surrounded by sketches of other Halloween type things I've love to make but may have to save those for next year.

Worktable Wednesday Peeks

I received a custom request to make my candy corn ornament into a Halloween Tree topper and here he is below.

Today the worktable is all about peeks. I'm currently working on a Halloween series of plush that I had drawn up for a while but the dolls took so much time I wasn't sure I'd have a chance to do them. They may or may not be ready for Halloween but they are screaming to be worked on!

Even though It's been 90 degrees here I'm already feeling the call of Christmas and will soon be sketching and sewing up plush and dolls for that season too. I'll also have some related paper goods, tags, stickers, etc in the shop. Ugh, I'm kind of stressing just thinking about it! It's supposed to be fun right? Deep breath, yes I say, it'll be so much fun!

On the lighter side I sold the Large Candy Corn Plush this morning! Yay! I think I'll re-list and sew up one more. I'm going to have a giveaway this month but haven't worked out the details yet so drop back for that news and also please drop back on Friday, I'm featuring one of my lovely blog readers on Friday Finds.

WIP Sneak Peeks

I'm holding off on Sassy's Friday Finds until next week so I can catch up with some other posts. Finally got my camera problem solved so can do the post I meant to do yesterday. Sneak peek at 3 projects I've got going on right now.

When this is finished I'll do a special post all about it. Gnomes, hedgies, shrooms and leaves. Squee! This is a fun personal project.

Prototype of a secret project. Shhhhh!

Yes I know owls again but in a fun new way!

Hope you enjoyed these quick sneak peeks!

Sneak Peek and a Tale of Pain.

I was hoping to show you all the Monster/Troll I've been working on but my back had other ideas. It's been bothering me for a while and decided to throw itself into spasms yesterday. The spasms prevented me from raising my arms above my waist without pain so I couldn't sew or do much of anything. The Troll itself is mostly finished but he's naked so I'll just show a sneak peek until his outfit is made.

A face only a mother could love!

Quick Peek At Alice

I'm continuing my Alice In Wonderland Plush Dolls.

Alice is coming along well. I've started to add much more

detail to her than I originally intended so she's taking

longer to make, but I'm really thrilled at how she looks.

I only sew at night after all my other work is done,

so things don't move as fast as I'd like.