I am so excited to share and post about some Bulbasaur Inspired plushies I made. I am estatic that Choly Knight, Sew Desu Ne, was so kind to create a free bulbasaur sewing and embroidery pattern. When I saw her post of this pattern on her website, I had to make some bulbasaur inspired plushies and create some of my own designs.
Before I show the different Bulbasaur designs, here is the Bulbasaur plush I made:
Cute, right?!
When Sew Desu Ne relased the sewing embroidery pattern she made an alternative design to make for the fall season / halloween. When you think of fall, pumpkins tend to come to mind, well at least for me, not sure about everyone else. Anyways, I had to make a pumpkin bulbasaur inspired plush next.
What do you all think of this cutie? Adorable, right!?
I could not stop at Pumpkin inspired Bulbasaur Plush, I had to design my own inspirational Bulba. With the timeline being around fall when the sewing and embroidery pattern came out, I thought designing a Sunflower inspired bulbasaur plush would be the cutest thing ever.
Isn’t the sunflower bulbasaur the cutest thing ever?!
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I was completely shocked that my adorable pink strawberry bat plush took social media by storm! A lovely customer posted about my pink strawberry bat on Twitter linking to my Etsy shop, and boom! People were sharing and liking it. See here:
I did not know about this twitter post until the next day after it posted when another customer told me on my etsy messages. I was wondering why so many people were buying up my pre-orders and other cute bats on my etsy shop. I was completely clueless to why I was gaining so much momentum on my etsy shop so fast. I had so many people asking for my pink strawberry bats.
When I realized my adorable pink strawberry bat plushies were becoming so popular, I decided I had to do a giveaway on twitter!!
🍓🦇 #GIVEAWAY 🍓🦇
Win a pink strawberry bat plush!
– Must be following me
– Like & RT this post
– Tag friends! (Extra entries for each additional person you tag!)
🍓🦇 Good luck 🍓🦇
#pinkstrawberrybatplushgiveaway
Giveaway ends October 30th!
Winner announced on Halloween!
*** UPDATE: GIVEAWAY CLOSED ***
For those who really want a pink strawberry bat I have them available for Pre-order on my Etsy shop:
I used BeeZeeArt bat sewing pattern to make this plush.
My pink Strawberry bat plush etsy shop listing:
I will continually have bat pre-orders and new bat creations, so follow me on my social media accounts for updates!
I could not have imagined years ago that my fabric hoarding will soon payoff. Seems like every year I purchase some type of fabric I see when browsing the fabric store. I can’t help but to grab some cool printed fabrics.
Now with the COVID-19 outbreak, everyone needs face masks to help protect themselves from potentially getting affected. Plus, many states have mandated that people must wear masks when out in public, especially if you can’t maintain social distancing of 6 feet.
I was hesitant at first to make face masks, but I started out making a few for my husband, since he is essential personnel at work. I made three different styles for securing the masks, such as ties, elastic around ears or elastoc around head. Plus, in order to prevent fogging when wearing protective glasses or glasses in general, I sew a metal nose piece on the masks so you can adjust/form it to the bridge of your nose for security.
As you can see from my above picture, I made options for four different sizes for everyone to choose from and displayed how the three different securing styles I offer for the face masks look. By the way, when the pandemic first broke out, it was difficult to find elastic! I had quite a bit of elastic stashed away over the years, but I did end up ordering elastic on ebay that took a couple of weeks to arrive. I wanted to make sure I had enough on hand to make masks for people.
Below are the fabrics I have hoarded over the years, that I ended up numbering to make it easier for everyone to order and select their fabric choices:
I know, I have a lot of fabric choices… these are only the cotton fabrics that I have. I literally have a variety of other types of fabric in my craftroom. You can say, my craftroom is like a mini sewing and craft store…
Here are some example of face masks I have made the past month:
I am currently still making face masks, so if you are interested in purchasing your own custom face mask(s), you can contact me on my Facebook page, Etsy Shop or order right here from my shop website.
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I had the opportunity make a new children book author’s characters come to life in plush form. I love sewing projects where I get to be super creative. This author first came to me back in July 2017 to create a zombie character she wrote a book about. I just realized that I never wrote a post about it last year. I can’t believe I forgot! No worries, I will share the zombie plush I made last year and the newer characters she requested this year.
Lets start out by going back in time to July 2018. The new children’s book author came to me requesting a custom plush of her zombie character. She sent me multiple sketches of the zombie and this is when we brain stormed ideas of how I was going to make it into plush form. She first asked if I could make it posable where it can stand up or sit down. I informed her that I’ve never attempted a posable plush before so I would have to research on how to make it. We later came to a consensus that I will make the plush sitting down instead. She loved how I made the wolf plush I create and sale on my Etsy shop (here). Going off that, I started drafting the Zombie.
Here is the work in progress pictures I messaged her:
You can see from the photos above that I had to do a lot of machine embroidery, but it was well worth it. I made two of these zombies for her. Below is the final look for the zombie:
I am super proud of myself on how this zombie turned out. The author loved how the zombie turned out. The only issue was it did take me a while to create the zombies. 😔 On a good note, the author was very patient and understanding, plus she was happy to receive the zombies before her book reading that was scheduled in October.
Now fast forward to present (2019). The author invented two more characters, an alien and a werewolf, that she wanted in plush form. She contacted me again, but this time she invisioned a simpler shape for the plush form she wanted for the characters. I love the shape idea she came up with that I might make some more plushies in this shape. 😜
Here are the pictures of how the werewolf, alien, and zombie plushies came out in a more similar shape:
Aren’t they all adorable?! I had so much fun creating these for the author. 😁
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I was so excited to see the new How To Train Your Dragon 3: The Hidden World movie. It was a fantastic movie, and I was super excited to see the ending of the film. If you haven’t seen the movie, I am sorry, but I must divulge the news about what I saw at the end of the movie. There were baby night light fury dragons! When I saw these cuties, I knew I had to create plushies of them.
If you saw my past posts of the Laying Down (here) and Standing (here) versions of the Night and Light Fury Plushies I made, I figured I would make the babies in the laying down style but mini version. I had to make more modifications to the patterns since the babies have pieces of each of their parents.
Note: I modified Sew Desu Ne Kirin base pattern to create these plushies. She creates amazing patterns, and they are easy to follow or adjust them to create something great! You can get Sew Desu Ne sewing patterns on her Etsy shop (here) or you can get some of her free patterns on her website (here).
Now for the best part, pictures of the babies!
I couldn’t help myself, but I had to take family pictures of the Standing and Laying Down Night and Light Fury Dragons with the babies! Here are the family portraits:
Aren’t the family portraits adorable?!
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I had the opportunity to create an adorable custom fox plushie. A mother wanted to give her daughter a custom plushie for her birthday. Her daughter drew a picture of her character “Lemon Fox.”
Drawing by Lemon Fox Studio, you can see here Instagram here.
Here is the sketch I made to show the style plush I was going to sew. She approved the design.
I modified Teacuplion’s Raichu pattern to create this plush. You can get the pattern here: TeacupLion Etsy. TeacupLion has amazing plush patterns. She is one of my favorite plushie designers.
Here is how the Lemon Fox turned out in plush form:
Isn’t the Lemon Fox adorable?!
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Here I go again, conducting my yearly tradition I do: handmade Christmas gifts for the family. Last year I made these fantastic Reindeer and decor crates for Christmas, here, which were a big hit with the family. This year I was adamant I was going to outdo last year gifts, but there was a big hiccup this year with my plans. I ended up traveling most of the year for work. Traveling squashed my grand handmade gift ideas to the ground. Ok, it didn’t do that much damage. All this means is I have a shorter amount of time to create my gifts this year. I will have to resort to making something smaller this holiday season — no biggy.
What kind of handmade gifts do I want to make this year? Good question. Needs to be small, cute and Christmas themed. I like sewing animals so I want to make an animal that I can easily and quickly create. Oh, I know! How about a polar bear?! Even better, I can use my embroidery program and machine to stitch out the face details and paw prints plus make my embroidery machine half sew the plush for me. Hehe. This would save me a lot of time! For those of you that might not know, I am going to create my own In-The-Hoop (ITH) embroidery plush. More than a year ago, I made an ITH Husky Plush, here. This husky plush is what inspired the small polar bear plush idea.
Here is a short video of my embroidery machine stitching out some of the polar bear details:
I love my large Husqvarna Viking metal hoop I got for Christmas last year from my in-laws. This large metal embroidery hoop lets me make four polar bear heads at once and four bodies in a separate hooping, which saves me so much time! If I did not have this large metal hoop, then I would only be able to complete one or two at a time. Technically, I could use one of my other big hoops I have, but the metal hoops are easier to set up than the traditional embroidery hoops.
Like I mentioned before, I had to travel quite a bit this year for work. To prevent procrastination and reduce stress I decided that for my final work trip down to Florida I should pack the unfinished polar bears with me on my work adventure.
Below are photos of me working on the polar bears in my hotel room:
Below are all the polar bears stuffed but still need to be sewn together:
I don’t think Florida weather is ideal for Polar Bears but I think they enjoyed the relaxing beach scenery from my hotel room, I know I did. Hehe. Here is a photo of the gorgeous view:
They even had nice chairs on the balcony to enjoy the view. I may have sat outside a few times hand sewing the polar bears together.
I am so happy I decided to bring the polar bears with me on my work trip to finish most of the polar bears. Here is 25 complete polar bears I made:
If you guessed classic Coca-Cola, you would be right. The idea came to me when I saw the Coca-Cola commercials showing the polar bears sharing a coke with each other. It was like a light bulb on my head went off at that moment, hey, you need to find the classic glass bottles of coke to add with your polar bears. The coca-cola was the small detail needed to add that extra adorable touch. Hopefully, when family members open the gifts, they will get it. Haha. Oh, I also tied a nice small ribbon around their necks to add the extra Christmas touch.
My hubby loved the idea, but he wanted to add his little detail to the gift idea. He decided it would be awesome for family members who are 21 years + should get a tiny little bottle of crown royal to spike there drink. Haha. For the young ones that can’t have alcohol, we gave them two glass bottles of coke to be fair. 😉
All in all, these polar bears and added details were the highlight of my Christmas especially when everyone thought they were so cute and thoughtful. 😀 I love making cute handmade Christmas gifts and I am already planning next years Christmas gifts. 😉 Haha. To be honest, I already started planning 2020 Christmas too. 😂
Almost forgot. Here are more polar bear pictures with ribbons around their necks:
Merry Christmas everyone! Cheers!
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