Ugh,

I was bound and determined to make a beanie tonight, make and finish it. I made about 30 character beanies for a birthday party about 8 years ago and swore I'd never make a beanie again. But of course like all hobbies do, they itch again and I decided to try it again. Again i'll just say the following images will make some sewers out their nauseous as I'm apparently a terrible sewer.


I started with four dome shaped pieces of Fleece and pinned them all together and then the bottoms up (I did not like how that turned out so next time i'll do it differently)

 

Pinny pinned

 Then I cut out the black face mask and layed it to show how it should lay on the hat.

 

I folded the  edges on the black face mask to hopefully make it look cleaner then sewed.

 

Ears next... I cut out 4 of these things

 

Extracted the middle on 2 of them

 

added some pink fabric

 

I have no clue how to describe the pinning ( This entire hat was done without instructions just winging it) but this picture hopefully shows it somewhat

 

The second ear looks much cleaner

 

crappppppppppppppp I hope it works.....

 

yey it did!!!!

 

Both ears...

 

I forgot to take picture sof attaching the ears. Basically I seamed ripped holes in the finished tan beanie then stuffed them in  and sewed the beanie back up. and this is what they look like. I don't own a smart phone so I have to use my bulky camera...

 

 

 

I had major problems wit the eyes. I wanted to use a zig zag stich to clean up the edges of the eyes so it's not just fleece edges sticking out. but my zig zag skips (any sewers know how to fix this??) I fought with it for about 30 minutes and gave up for the night. But this is sorta how it's gonna look when it's finished.

 After the Chickens were great Danes.

Hey everyone,

I hope you guys had a great Holiday season <3  I haven't posted for a while, I started really getting into Etsy attempting to sell on there. It was a bigger process than I expected. So much to consider and do. But I miss posting on my blog and for any new people who start reading this you'll get peeks into future magnets that will eventually make it up to etsy.

I'll pick up somewhat where I left off cause I know  the mass of people are wondering about the chicken that was doing the splits. One thing I've learned with using resin the less sharp edges the better. Anything Sharp edges causes the resin the drip right off due to...science? The Chicken feet took 3 coatings to make sure that it was completely covered.


What they look like on paper-

 

 

 

 

Andddd in magnet form

 

A White Chicken

 

Plymouth Rock

 

A Rhode Island Red