Thursday: Creature Making! How to make a 4-legged thing

The Unicorn Thing tutorial

Draw your shape on a paper, cut. I kind of wanted mine to look like an horse... but the neck is so long it looks like Nessy.

Cut 2 of it


Change color if you like.. Cut along the leg. I went to far and it will cause the creature not to stand very well...


Fold and cut along.


Sew the upper body, then place your "belly" under and sew along.

I've entered some stitches between the legs so it could stand....


Now embellish it.


Of course, Mariann grabbed it straight when she woke up from nap (it has a tail, at least!), she called it "Pony" and went construction a "house" for it with her blocks. Can you spot it?



Later I added some hair and a spike. Unicorn of the Loch Ness it is!

Thanks to every one who played along with me this week :)
tomorrow is the big day, but I won't be able to go, oh well!
I'll craft instead!

Thursday: Creature Making!

Ever wished to own an hippogriff or a dragon? Or an owl for sending mails? Wouldn't it be cool?

Well, apparently us muggle can't. But we can try. With some imagination, and some fabric.

My friend Abeeroad did an awesome I-Spy owl for Mariann last HP swap on craftster.

I-Spy toys are sachet where you have a list of item to find.


Here we got a moon, and a wand, and a phoenix, and griffindor's sword.....

There's a great article about making a dragon in the 2010 edition of Rhythm of the home.


I made a dragon back in February for a special little boy:

It is now called Percy!

There's tons of awesomely done plushes of Dragon, Unicorn and even House Elves and Pixies around!


from All thing crafty

Coming later: A unicorn plush how-to!

Linkie's open for today! Remember that other day's linkies are still open as well! :D

My First Waldrof Inspired Doll

I told you yesterday, here it is, not naked anymore!

I decided going for a Boy doll for my nephew, as I'm pretty sure he doesn't have one yet. He's only 4 month old, and for now he won't care much other than chew on it.... But as he'll grow and start playing a bit of pretend play, he'll have other stuff to play with than plastic trucks and soldiers (not that I think my sister would buy him soldiers though!)

I could have made him anything, but went for the Waldorf companion doll.
There's TONS of great one on etsy, and they are expensive! This one cost me barely nothing to make, and it's because I cheated.

Waldorf dolls are usually 100% natural. But I didn't have access to wool roving and bio cottons etc... And no money to get it from the internet. So this little guy is filled with cotton balls, the skin is from an old maternity t-shirt (what an hideous color for a shirt! lol) T-shirt and jeans from what I had too, and the socks are a pair of mariann newborn's that I slightly cut. The wool hair is acrylic I think...
It cost me about 4$ to make, and I spent the weekend on it.



First time I make so tiny cloths! So this is my first pair of pants :P



That's it for our new temporary resident!

There's TONS of resources on how to make one yourself, and for free!

There's also many books, pattern for clothing and lots and lots of doll makers (etsy made a special section for them!) if you don't want to make one and want one :P

And of course... Mariann stole it. Many times. As I was attaching the hair (strand by strand....) She'd take it, give it a kiss, and give it back. This little guy received a lot of love already!... I was able to get picture because Mariann is currently napping... Else she would have been part of the pics!

Now I'm gonna start on hers, as it's gonna part of her bday gift. I'm not buying anything, all her gifts from me would be handmade.
Can't wait to show you ;)

Elemental plush doll: Fire!

Finally I managed making one Fire version of my elementals! The gang is now complete.




Couldn't get a group shot because I don't know where the Air is...
Anyway. You can see I slightly changed my pattern to make a flame head.

I used felt for this one. He's so cuddly. I think he's my new favorite.
I tried some outfit but none where fitting to my taste. He'll have a nice one by the time I make the group shot :)

You can bet my daughter stole it before I could make any other outfit tryout!

I might add some embroidery details on his head too.


What do you all think? I know most of you like it when the design is simple

Neytiri Poppet!!

I decided to make a poppet for my cousin that recently lost her mom (and grand-mother 2 month after that, the very same way her mom died).

I was going to make a random blue fairy, when another cousin that was home when I was attaching the legs said it looked like a Na'vi...

Of course!

I lost contact with that cousin, but I've grew up with her, and I'm 110% SURE she adored the movie Avatar. So I went for it! Here's Neytiri!

She's stuffed with polyfill upcycled from teddies. Her body is blue felt, and I've painted the pattern and "lights".

Her cloths are some kind of a fake leather I had.
The face is done with acrylic paint.

The feather in her hairs is I believe from a roster, the beads are wooden and her bracelets are various glass & acrylic beads.
Her hairs are chenille.



She's a tad more carveous than the regular Na'vi!
Her necklace (made with feather in the movie...) is done with I think sea shell sticks which give a close enough effect :)

thanks for looking!
if you have any comment to improve her, I'm open, as She's not given yet! :D

I'm still thinking of a way to make a spear or a... you know those things that throws arrows? (LOL at my french not wanting to translate tonight! >_<)
I would have made her googles but I have no acetate on hands :(

...I'll have a pretty blue & yellow polka dot to show you soon... Just need to make some bloomers (as in, figuring how-to! ahah)

I won something!!

Nydia from Bringing up Salamanders had a wonderful giveaway for Litha, even if her next Sabbath will be Yule ;) And to my surprise my name was picked out of the hat! How great!? :D

This little Fire God will sit very nicely next to my water goddess on my altar!

thank you so much Nydia. I swear the weather was crappy all day and now the sun has pierce through... You made my day!

If you want a little god or goddess like this one, she sells wonderful ones in her etsy shop!

Elemental plush doll: Air

Here comes the 3rd elemental: Air!

Made out of felt this time; turned out a tad smaller. She has very plushie white air, with white feathers in it :) She has yellow eyes and beige mouth.

She has a cloak made out of lace and a pretty sunny dress :)

I don't know if I'll use felt again for an elemental... The feeling is different!
I'm not sure if I'll put it to sale... Maybe I'm too emotional??

Here's the cool crew together, waiting on their Fire friend (and maybe Spirit) to be complete!

I made a pattern for them, that I'm gonna sell around 10$. They'll include clothing, too. It's currently being tested, and you will know for sure when the pattern will be up for sale!!

When I'm done with the Fire I'll start making witches, wizard, fairies... Any other creatures you'd like to see??

Elemental plush doll: Water

Here's my second elemental plushie in its Water version!



Again, this one is made of an old t-shirt... in this case the one I gave birth with. It's a gift for my daugther so I wanted to make it extra special.
It's filled with scrap pieces of felt and cottons.



The face features are Waldorf doll style inspired. Decided to make the eyes white for more fantasy!



The hairs are sewn in by 2-3 thread of wool at a time. Used a whole package but I don't know how much it is...



The tail is made out of an old tee my mommy used to wear all the time for a LONG time. The points are scrap pieces from the cousins from our master bedroom and are firmly stuffed with scrap pieces of fabric. An elastic holds the top of the tail and I've put a single seashell out of tan felt. It's taken off like a piece of cloths to reveal a pair of blue legs



I could have put way more details on her... But it's for my toddler to toss around so I kept it simple
Again, this is a prototype of plus I want to start selling in my etsy...Would you buy one for a child in your life? Would you buy one for yourself if it was more intricate??
I also welcome constructive criticism

Glagool the Jellyfish

I'm back with yet another plushie! this time its a yellow jellyfish, which I gave the stupid name of Glagool :)

First I've cut out 4 pieces for the head, and sew them inward with my machine.

I've hand sewn the top.... Which was useless you will see...

I've cut it all because it would have given a too long form when I wanted an half sphere. I've run it all to the machine again to round the top.

I've flip it all and measure a round for the base. I've used blanket stitches to sew it in and I've filled with scraps pieces of felt.





For the tail-thing, I've cut a band and cut bands with my pretty sisors. I've rolled it and cut the extra leaving about half a centimeter at the top.



I've secured the whole thing with stitches


and started sewing it on the half sphere, with blanket stitches

..It gave this...

..Which isn't a Jellyfish yet. With my thread, I've entered in the middle of the tail-thing and pushed all the way through the top of the half-sphere

And made many knots and stitches to secure the preasure. And again knots at the top.


..Here's an irrelevant picture of my daugther stealing it from me at that time, like she always does with anything I'm making...



I gave him eyes and pupils


And added my signature...


And he was done!

Thanks for looking :)