Sewing fingers...

[flips]

Hand sewn with love if not expertise...

Same one turned out the other way...

Sorry Polly, I nicked your design... took me AGES to work it out though I'm yet to see if my wonky seams stand up to piggy usage and washing




Delilah reluctantly modelling her new bed...

 

[ILoveGilbertTheGuineaPig]

loooks good to me Delilah doesn't look very happy - flashin' her while she's trying to nap. BAD MOMMA! |)

 

[flips]

loooks good to me Delilah doesn't look very happy - flashin' her while she's trying to nap. BAD MOMMA! |)

It's true... if looks could kill I'd be 6 feet under right now.

 

[threelittlepigs]

Awww Sharon! Sooooo sweeeeeeet! Love the fleeces! Well done on the sewing! As a top tip, the side which is on the outside when you do the first seam across the bottom will be the outside when you finish!

 

[flips]

Awww Sharon! Sooooo sweeeeeeet! Love the fleeces! Well done on the sewing! As a top tip, the side which is on the outside when you do the first seam across the bottom will be the outside when you finish!

I so nearly pm'd you the other night but I was being stubborn. I worked out the bottom seam in my head (looks like a french seam?) although took a while to work out which would be the outside as in your tip. But I sewed the inner and outer together along the back seam before I turned it out. Suffice to say it didn't work and I had to unpick (doh!). Left it alone while I had a BIG bowl of ice cream and then it clicked whilst I was examining the ones you made.
Bumpisacutie has already taken the pink heart one home with her so I will have to make my pigs another one. They're just so popular! Looking forward to seeing your new products soon. x

Oh, and the heart fleece was a children's blanket from tesco for £4. Bargain.

 

[skrikopanik]

Wow! That looks really good!

My living room looks like a fleece sweatshop at the moment... I'm sewing too

 

[nutmeg]

Love the colours, and the piggy of course xx

 

[threelittlepigs]

That's great! One of the things I keep intending to do is a really good thread on how to make a cozy. There are instructions out there, but they are too vague to be useful and often don't include wadding (the most important part in my opinion).

 

[Wiebke]

Love your handiwork! I can't be any wonkier than mine!

 

[Farquhar]

They look great.

 

[lovelygirl]

We will be needing to start a sewing social group! Think pollie would have to head it up mind as our proffesional but yours look really good too! If only i had the patience to hand sew still! lol rolleyes

 

[chilwell]

Oh those are lovely! What do you use for stuffing?

 

[flips]

Oh those are lovely! What do you use for stuffing?

I use wadding. I think it's 2 and half oz or 70g weight. it's quite thin but easier to sew several layers than the thicker stuff. I buy it by the metre.