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Animal Rattles to Sew

June 28, 2012

I've had a lot of requests for the pattern for the duck rattle I made a few weeks ago. I have the pattern as part of a kit, but many people already have the fabric and just wanted to pattern itself.

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Josephine took the duck rattle for a test drive. She really didn't want to give it back.

I took that pattern from the kit (the one I posted about here) and developed two more animal designs to go with the duck: a kitty and an elephant.That way you get three variations when you buy one pattern.

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Animal Rattle Pattern

I have to say that making these rattles is a really satisfying project. You can sit down and make one, start to finish, in an evening. I love projects like that. And they really work. The rattle inserts make such a good, loud, rattling noise you can really hear, even through the stuffing and the fabric of the head.

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So now in addition to the kits which contain everything you need to make a duck rattle, there is also a pattern available for making these three rattle variations. And I made a separate listing for 3-packs of the rattle inserts if you need those, too.

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