Hand Puppets

I admit it, I'm pretty proud of these. I made them for my nephew, he's three.

I love this tutorial over on Sweetie Pie Bakery, especially the curtain - a simple idea but such a great addition to the puppets themselves. I decided to machine stitch rather than hand partly for strength and partly for time. I decided to do this a week before Christmas!

I followed her directions for the pig, elephant, and lion, and then added the penguin cause he likes them and the dog cause he has one (though he thought it was a bunny, a reasonable assumption due to the ears). The tails of the pig and dog were made with pipe cleaner. I used leftover material from the bridesmaids dresses from my wedding for the curtain and made ties so they could be velcroed (not sure if that's a word).

In action!

Christmas extravaganza

Finally got my camera back!! I had forgotten half the things that were on there (it snowed in December?) Anywho, I had been diligently photography my pre-holiday craftiness and then left my camera at a friends back east. As it turns out, I didn't even document everything I did but I'm excited to finally get to show some things off.

Using this laptop sleeve pattern, I made an Ipad cover for my mother-in-law. I made this for myself for my laptop a while back and I love it.

Sad to say but it's been so long that I'm not exactly sure who's crayon roll pattern I followed. There are plenty out there, but I definitely looked at this one. I found the colored pencils in London and bought them for my nephew who's an avid artiste. I used material from his bean bag chair that I made a couple years ago for the outside, cause it was from his chair and also cause of the tree motif.

I decided a button and some elastic would be easier to wield for his little fingers.

And the piece de resistance for this year - hand puppets and a curtain from Sweetie Pie Bakery. More on this in a minute.