My nephew’s Birthday is coming up, and I’m thinking he won’t enjoy a princess bank as much as his younger sister. So what do I make for him?
A Tooth Fairy pillow! Of course…you have to man it up a bit.
I started with this:
Yes, that’s right; random kitchen supplies and a baby clothes hanger. Fact is; I am not a good sketcher. I couldn’t sketch a circle if my life depended on it. And, since I’m of the anal-retentive nature, I love my circles to be perfect and everything to be even. So I use what I can find around my house to trace the lines I need. J It just works.
So here are the cardboard patterns I made:
Went on a fun outing to Joann’s and came back with this (plus more…you know that happens):
The mouth was difficult:
No matter how much I’ve been sewing in the last year, I still can’t seem to sew three pieces of fabric together without messing it up somewhere…then let’s add the fact that the knit material likes to move. Needless to say, it took me a couple tries before I was satisfied.
Then came the stitching, which I do while sitting in front of the boob tube:
I am using “Mum Made” as my calling card, so I went ahead and stitched that into the bottom corner of the Monster’s rear.
And the finished results:
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