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Wednesday 2 December 2015

Sammy

Rather later than planned, I can now introduce Sammy to you! He is made from a lovely lilac colour mohair fabric, with matching amethyst transparent glass eyes and cotton velvet (hand-dyed by me) for his paw pads. He is filled with firm fibre filling and steel shot in his tummy and feet – with a bit of distressing around the edges, including some faux mending stitches to age him slightly. Sammy has a purple woolly heart stitched on his tum and is 10 inches from top to toe (or paw!!)


A lovely thick woolly scarf, with bells on, is helping to keep him warm in this rather chilly weather .......

but look at who he has met on his walk ……. a lovely robin red breast and a very friendly one too by the looks of it! although maybe Mr Robin is hoping Sammy has some birdie treats in that satchel of his!



The robin is needle-felted by me AND I only stabbed myself about 25 times during the process of making him …….. ouch!! The smaller the needle-felting, the more likely you are to pierce your skin and Mr Robin is quite small as you can imagine. 


Sammy’s little satchel is also handmade by me from ultra suede – and it opens!! and I can tell you that machine stitching such small pieces is really tricky. I decided on machine sewing, because I didn’t think I’d manage hand sewing through a double thickness of suede – my fingers were already sore from the needle-felting!! LOL


So, there’s my latest creation and as always, I would love to know what you think!

4 comments:

Mrs A. said...

Sammy is adorable. Love his scarf. I feel those pin pricks for you. Lol. hugs Mrs A.

Christine said...

Awwww he's so sweet he's stolen my heart! Great job on the cutest wee Robin I've seen!
Happy December!

Elizabeth said...

They just get better and better.love his colour and his scarf

Vivi Casale said...

Hello My Friend, I havent been here for a long time..
I stopped by to see what you have being doing and I see lots of new beautiful things and now you1re making these cute bears.. and OMGGGGGG.. you made a lilac bear??? I'll go crazy.. I love purple/lilac and bears too...
gosh.... I'm that close to ask you to make one for me ahaha

well done my Friend.. love everyhing you made...
xoxo