I finished this unicorn today.  I thought I’d explain a little bit about what inspired me to make her. I don’t have space to keep all of the magazines that I get and I often find that I only really like a few pages or projects from each magazine so a while ago I started… 

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One of Charlie’s colleagues has given me a bunch of her old linens over the last few weeks.  She gave me a set of round cloth napkins embroidered with little strawberries and leaves that I thought might make good mushroom tops.  I have wanted to make a mushroom for my little snail to hide under… 

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The last few days I have been making some toys to give as holiday gifts.  I made this little sock monkey for a friend who has had a thing for sock monkeys since childhood.  I used a child’s size argyle sock for this guy so he is a great size – you can hold him… 

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I found this excellent book a the used bookstore in Waltham on Saturday night.  I haven't made a puppet since I was a child and I'm not sure I'd like to start. The whole theater part of puppets is pretty off-putting to me.  I hate to be on stage. I hate karaoke, even. And one… 

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I finished the second horse this morning while Roxanne was at nursery school.  His name is Polonia and he is a twin. Like his brother, he has a vintage patch on one side and an embroidered vintage napkin (from the same set) on the other I’m not generally a fan of making two of something… 

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I finished this horse this morning.  His body is made of all kinds of new and vintage fabric pieces, including an embroidered cloth napkin from another of Charlie’s colleagues. The buttons on his legs were salvaged from an old pair of cropped pants from Express that had all sorts of extraneous buttons and belt loops… 

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Charlie's colleague, Liz, found me this excellent little booklet at an estate sale last weekend.  I believe she got it for pretty close to the original 1944 cover price of 10 cents.  It is only about 10 pages long, but has quickly become one my prized craft books. What I love about this book is… 

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It feels good to have this little vignette completed.   Here he is in the cauldron. Can you see the “huff huff huff puff puff puff” fabric inside his ears and on his foot pads? I wanted him to have some fabric with text in those two spots so he would match his piggy friends… 

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I’ve been in a bit of a creative funk the last few days – feeling overwhelmed by the number of pieces still left to make for the library show and feeling so saddened by the story of the Kim family. Stella is seven months old now, like Sabine, and I am a nursing mom with… 

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snail simple and clean in natural linens. (his antennae are stiffened with fabric stiffener – good stuff despite the lewd stiffy humor i had to endure while Charlie was sitting by the craft desk)