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28
Jul 2010

Of Pandas and Gnomes

More stuff sent out for SwapBot! Firstly, a Perfectly Pretty Panda.

Panda here is made from felt, hand sewn. The K embellishment is because my partners name is Kim and she likes blue, so I personalised ol’panda pants up for her.  You can find the pattern and tutorial for Anna Panda at Molly Chicken.

Next up, we have a Gnome with his fungus, which is how gnomes most like to live.

He doesn’t show up so awesomely in the photo, or even that well in RL :( I think I made the wrong fabric choice for him, but I had a hell of a time getting the transfer to work on anything else. My partner seems pleased with him, so that’s something.  The pattern is a freebie from Andrea Zuill.

Aaaaaaaaand we’ll finish with a WIP, this is for the rainbow flower swaps I’m hosting:

I know, it’s currently not so much “Flowers” as “Teeny flat clown hats” but they WILL become flowers. I’m working on green at the same time, but haven’t sewn those yet, just cut them.

I wish I was more of a fan of pink.

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17
Jul 2010

A Honey of a Panda

Since Australia Post suddenly remembered the “delivery” part of the mail system and delivered this to my friend Julie, I can now reveal the secret project I didn’t post last time.

See, Julie is obsessed with pandas, so I figured hey! I could make one! Turns out I could, although not terribly professionally.

The pattern is adapted from the Honey Bear pattern that you can get for no money by signing up for the newsletter at Funky Friends Factory.

When I saw the pattern printed out I thought “Oh holy shit, there is no WAY this is sewable!” but I have to say, like all the Funky Friends patterns, if you follow the instructions step by step you end up having no trouble at all.  Honey the Bear is also the official bear for an initiative called “A Billion Bears for Charity” which means you can make as many bears from the pattern as you like to sell to raise money for whatever charity you like – the designer simply asks you send her a photo of your bears and a count of how many you made so she can know when she hits a billion!

Panda-ising the pattern wasn’t complicated, it was just a matter of making different bits in different colours. The tricky part was the two tone body, which I did by marking on the pattern where the colour change would be, and then laying the pattern over a pre-prepared black and white block.  I didn’t quite match it on the back, but the rest worked out not badly.

The other thing was googling for “Panda butt” to check the colour and placement of panda tails, because most plush pandas seem to have black tails, and it turns out the real ones have a little white nub. Trust me, I’ve seen a LOT of panda butt of recent.

Julie loves him to bits, so despite all his wonky bits I think he worked out :D

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