Arthur and Nancy

This is Arthur and Nancy.

They're firm friends, so they're very happy to be travelling together all the way up north to join the rest of the Hope Softies.

I hope they have a safe trip!

Meet Trevor

I've been playing with photoshop

I sat down on Saturday afternoon and actually made a list of all the things that I need to get finished this month. I hate having to rush to finish things on time, so I'm hoping (and praying) that the list actually works!

One of the items on the list was Trevor.

Trevor is the Softie for Mirabel that was in my creative space earlier in the week.

Trevor in his natural unphotoshopped habitat

If you would like to make your very own version of Trevor, you can find the pattern and some super quick instructions right here on my tutorials page.


There is still plenty of time to make a Softie for Mirabel - Pip is taking donations up until December 7th, so get cracking!

PS - A quick tip - although fuzzy hairy fabrics are a bit more difficult to work with, they're very forgiving, especially when trying to hide the spot where you've hand stitched the filling gap!

My Creative Space & A Book Launch

In my creative space today is a project that I was supposed to get finished yesterday, instead of spending the entire day faffing around (somewhat due to my lack of patience and interest in computer hardware).... Oh, yes, and I  might have gone out to have lunch at a nice little cafe too.

But anyway, I digress....this is going to be my Softie for Mirabel. It's just a simple little fuzzy bear softie that I designed yonks ago to use for Toy Society drops.

I had grand plans of having a proper tutorial written for making him, but I'm not going to have time, so I'm just going to share my pattern, and some super basic instructions. You can download a pdf copy here if you're interested, or I've also added links via my tutorial page.
It was written in a huge hurry so if there are any glaring errors, I'm apologising in advance!

Lovely photo used courtesy of Kate

In other crafty news, I was very lucky to be able to go along to Pips book launch for Sew La Tea Do on Tuesday night. I forgot to take my camera, so lets just pretend that Pip is signing my copy of her lovely book in this photo, shall we.....


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