Sooo I didn’t quite keep the challenge for this week. For those that haven’t followed I am doing a New Year countdown sewing challenge (only I counted the weeks wrong, lol) : Du fil à retordre sewing challenge.
This past week I have been super busy and I spent the weekend mostly Xmas shopping. I did manage to make this small guy though! It’s for my niece that apparently has developed an obsession for owls.
It was rather fast to do, I literally whipped it up in an hour. I found a few inspiring owls and drew the first draft. Then I copied it out the different parts on different pieces of paper to make the pattern pieces. Along the way, I decided to drop the feet as I was pressed for time and really wanted it to be finished quickly.
The body of the owl is made in a leftover piece of fleece that I made into a cape a year ago (my first up-cycled piece, rather impressive since I didn’t have a clue what I was making at the time). Then I found a few scraps of flowery fabric and the yellow for the beak ferreting around in my stash. The eyes were a brainwave. I have had these improbable little mirror things for years. I think I brought them in a creativity centre when I was young and have saved them religiously for the RIGHT THING. Obviously, I ended up never using them!
Here are some other Christmas gift ideas I have made over the months :
The Blue doll: you can find the full description here.
The maritime pin cushion, the fancy notebook sleeve and the swallows’ ebook bag (or makeup bag). These I all made before starting Crafty Poulette, so I don’t have pictures of them before!
I used Lyly met la main a la patte’s tutorial for the notebook sleeve, for the ebook bag I just googled one of the millions of small bag tutorials and for the pincushion I watched this tutorial!
Crafty Poulette 
Bravo for all the work done !
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Merci 😀
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