Blue floral shark

A quick stuffie I made up for Cooper when he got sick of playing with my fabric scraps and asked me to make him a "fish":

Yeah I know it looks more shark than fish but that's OK as sharks are one of his favorite animals too at the moment (along with whales, dolphins, beetles, grasshoppers, dinosaurs....).

The fabric is a small sample square of upholstery fabric from a local curtain shop. They stock very nice and very $$$ fabrics. 
Obviously my son has an appreciation for quality textiles as he picked this one out himself ;)

"Sharkey" (the stuffie not the 1980's singer) sleeps with Cooper in his bed everynight and will no doubt be accompanying us when Coop gets his tonsils out next week.
 My poor boy, I'm hoping that having a few things from home will make his overnight stay (I'll be there too) and recovery a little bit easier...

Til next time (one nervous mum)

Kate x
 

Meet the Softies!

Finished my first ever softies, now to think of names for them...Sgt Plod and Nurse Lulu ? Sgt Pepper and Nurse Stiches? er maybe not...

These guys will probably end up winging their way back to Western Australia as part of a present for my friend Aiden and her little just-turned-one boy Lucas, hope he likes them!

The pattern itself was pretty straightforward to follow, however I feel my softies did end up looking a little different - namely narrower- and not as cute as Jodie's (from Ric-Rac) original. Whether this is due to my sewing or the pattern I'm not sure, Jodie makes and sells many wonderful softies though her etsy shop so if the pattern is slightly different from her original I think thats understandable- especially as it was free :)

 Next time I sew this pattern I would probably widen and contour the main body shape a little more to give them a more "plumper" appearance. When sewing these two I made the template for the face a little bigger - about 10cm in diameter- than Jodie's suggested 8cm:

Still its a great pattern and you do end up with very two softies as a result :)  Mine took a bit longer than 1 hour to make up and sew - maybe three or four- but I did do it in bit and pieces over several days, and am pretty new to softie sewing- I expect the next lot (for my babies) to whip up a lot quicker !