plush team

so i forgot to mention (in the excitement of the show acceptance) that i've also become part of the etsy plush street team. which is a great group of plush makers! there's the blog, flickr gallery, and an etsy shop!

right now i've been working on make 34 frowny-faced, coal stocking stuffers! i've found the photofabric for labels i've been looking everywhere for so i made new labels and yea, coal! hopefully they're not to sad... it's supposed to be a good joke! i'm also brainstorming for both the street team's halloween contest AND softie central's holiday plush contest...


going home for the weekend, watch my brother play football and give him his birthday hot dog plush. probably going to take my sewing machine along with me...

oh also! naomi at the glitter workshop put up some photos of the frenchies on dispay in her shop!

craftacular!

so it's official that my first craft fair will be the glitter workshop's craftacular in madison! i have a HUGE list of ideas for the show, holiday stuff, display tactics, plush improvements, etc. so i'm WAY excited!

also, i'll be putting up some of the new, holiday plush i make for sale in the etsy shop so they'll be available beyond the craftacular! I'M SO EXCITED!

(and slightly nervous... i better get STARTED SOON!).

birthdays!

so in the next month i think i have 4 or 5 birthday presents to make! yow!

anyway this is the first. some all american food for my all american brother. he turns 18 tomorrow! but i won't be able to give this to him until the weekend. i hope he's not a poor lost bread blog reader or else this is totally giving it away. but i think it's safe to assume he's not into this, or at least not yet.

i've decided that fleece is so much nicer than felt! at least it feels better to work with because it's so soft, but it doesn't hold boxy shapes as well as felt does. also i decided i'm not very excited about using safety eyes. i've got a plan to break out the gocco again but for printing sheets upon sheets of eyes instead of faces straight onto the fabric i'm going to be sewing. this way i'll have my flexibility with the expressions of the plush... i'm afraid they're getting too dull.

steeping

i successfully dropped off the goods for the glitter workshop this morning, after a quick trip to joanns to return (hassle free!) that dumb circle puncher that didn't even punch a single piece of paper let alone felt... and bought a bunch of safety eyes instead...

and i realized that although i've been making plush like mad, i haven't really made any for my friends/family as gifts! so, i finally got around to making adam his very own plush, custom designed (although i'm definitely going to take the design and make some more, with slight alterations!!!):




it's a cassette tape if it isn't obvious, although i hope it is. it' a little rough around the edges, but i think that gives it character! especially as a handmade gift... i'm excited about making more, the possibilities are endless! almost. this one is made out of fleece which is actually the first fleece plush i've ever made! it was a little nicer to work with than felt, not so easily pill'ed and such. plus it's really, really soft. i also embroidered a little 1/1 on the top of it, (one of one), so i'm afraid this tape quite hard to find.