Facebook Love from the Sewing Group

Last week I decided to post a few of my makes on a Facebook sewing group to see what people thought, I was overwhelmed with the response, as you can see from my screen grabs I have 1.1k Likes and 292+ comments.

Baby Cot Lavender Bags

As I made some baby bunting for my friends I also decided to try my hand at lavender bags that could be hung next to the cot or moses basket. I had a look online and came up with these designs.

Pom Pom Flowers

We inherited a vase from my husbands nan and it has been hidden in the front room fro a year and then we moved it into the spare room, it was the only thing that we didn't move out of the room while we were decorating, and as the room slowly took shape it stayed there and now actually looks really good. SO with that in mind and now wanting to keep it I pinned some pompom flowers, with that in mind, thats what I decided to do.

I used 5 garden canes that I painted green, made different types of flowers that have individual leaves. I am really chuffed with how they turned out. 

Felt Minecraft Robot

I came across these on Pinterest and think they are uber cute.

 And this is mine.

Taxidermy Soft Elephant Head - Abby Glassenberg

I had seen a few of these, again on Pinterest, and thought it was different but cute. My friends and family thought it was scary, but out and about the past few months have shown that they are now being sold in shops, so they have come round now. I downloaded this pattern from Etsy and it came with the option of doing a giraffe as well, but I chose the elephant. 

Here is mine

No Pattern Giraffe.

I knew I wanted a large giraffe stuffed free standing toy and liked these ones on Pinterest.

I had only made the flamingo and elephant head so far so just made loads of educated guesses of what i needed to do. 

This was my attempt.

Let me point out the mistakes. I added the gusset to the head last minute, hence why the ears and horns are low. The neck was really too thin, so after stuffing the ears and horns and then trying for 30 minutes to turn it the right way round and busting the seam it worked. The neck also has a chop stick in it. 

The good points are that the spots are the same both sides and she stands up.

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Quilted Cushion

We brought a rocking chair for the room and as it is quite uncomfortable to sit on I decided to make my first cushion cover, that was my first time in patchwork and quilting! Again I used material that I had used in other projects. I was quite surprised with the end results, I think it looks really good.