puppy pillow

I asked my niece a while ago what she wanted for her birthday this year as I make her something every year. the last two years I made her princess dresses, this year however she told me that she didn’t think she had any more room for a big fluffy dress, (she has a rather small closet) so she told me what she wanted this year was a pillow with a brown puppy, that has a black nose, the bottom of the pillow needed to be green, the top blue and she wanted a red heart on it somewhere too.
okay so, yeah very specific.


I then spent forever online trying to find a decent appliqué of a dog, and was coming up with nothing. I wanted something cute but simple. anything simple I was coming up with was not at all what I was looking for, half the patterns out there hardly said dog to me, let alone puppy. finally I came across a stuffed dog pattern that was really cute and thought I can use part of that to make my puppy!
the pillow I made. its 16”X16” and has a zipper in the back so the pillow form is removable. allowing the pillow to be washed. I was rather proud of the way it turned out. I think its really cute.



cutesy crafts where I found the cute little dog pattern.

2014 ideas

not sure how good of an idea this is but I am going to make a list of what I want to make this year. I’m going to try not to be overly ambitious......
okay so here is my list.

1. a skirt made from neck ties. I already have the ties so I need to do this.
2. a bolero or two. I wear boleros all the time and need more then the three I have.
3. a Spencer ( I have no idea why I need one I have no regency dresses to wear it with. but I am thinking it would look cute with other things and I could wear it like a bolero till I finally break down and make a regency dress. because one day I will. and really I keep looking at museum websites and wanting one. museum websites are so bad!)
4. two dresses to wear for these meet up things I go to.
5. the yellow plaid Capri's I cut out last year.
6. a 1920’s beaded gown. I have a bunch of beads and really I need to use them and what better way to do so.
7. a Halloween costume, not sure what yet.
8. some blouses, since I bought a pattern.
9. at least one dress to add to my decades project.
10. maybe some other things as well. I just don’t know what.
11. maybe the 5th Doctor in girl version. but I need the rest of my Doctors to do theirs as well.

okay so probably way more then I can do, but at least its a jumping off point.

also I want to use as much as I can from my stash, but in reality I am sure I will be off buying more because what I have won’t be perfect. which brings me to my other goal. no more buying random fabric just because its pretty. I don’t have a lot space to keep it so I need to have a plan in mind when I go to the fabric stores.

A Sonic Christmas.

for my sister I made a Chao plush. she had found a picture of one online and was like. “please make for me!” so I searched around on the internet till I found a pattern, and made one. she loved it so that made me happy. I made the plush out of fleece the body and felt for the wings and pom pom. they were so little I didn’t want to have to buy a quarter of a yard for just a tiny bit of fabric and the little sheets of felt are nice and cheap. for the eyes I used some fabric from my stash. I have no idea what the content is but it seems to have a bit of rubber in it. I cut out the circles then painted the white around the outside with acrylic fabric paint. I then glued them on using a craft glue since I didn’t want any stitching showing. the pattern was super easy, and turned out so cute. I did only do it at fifty percent though since I knew my sister were prefer a smaller and cuter plush rather then a larger one.




for my brother I made him a dice bag out of some Sonic the hedgehog fabric that was in my stash, look familiar? its the same fabric I used to make my sister’s purse for her birthday back in July. again I looked around for patterns and tutorial’s. finally deciding on this one because not only did it have a nice shape it was also easy to make. not that everything has to be easy, but the other one I really liked had tons of button holes and well I’m not real fond of doing those on my home machine. I tried to do grommets on this bag but they didn’t end up holding very well, so I pulled them out and did two button holes, I could handle two, just not the dozen on the other pattern. for the drawstring I took some red quarter inch ribbon and some blue one eighth ribbon. which I braided together. I was happily pleased with the way the contrasting sizing of ribbon turned out. I also fully lined the bag, since the sonic fabric is not that thick, I used a navy blue satin to line it. my brother liked the bag and told me it was way better then the ziploc bag he had been using. which made me glad I made this for him.


I still have two more things to post that I made for Christmas but I will put them in another post.
chao pattern
dice bag tutorial