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hello byob, and welcome to my thread. i recently began learning how to make mini stuffed animals and i will be making one for byob as my entry! i am not a sewing person and usually find thread to be my nemesis, but this project is supposed to be for children so i thought surely i could do it here is the kit i got:  the table of contents:  and here is a bit of the felt selection i have:  the only color i seem to be missing is yellow - the ones that look yellow in this pic are really more of a tan here is the first mini stuffed animal i made, finished on sunday night. i call him Wonky the Peng  in my next post i'll be asking for audience participation to help design a mini stuffed animal |
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first off, i need your help deciding what type of stuffed animal to make our choices are: penguin sloth bat pig whale seal hedgehog fox raccoon alpaca bunny panda octopus owl since i've already made a penguin, we should probably select something else. please post which stuffed animal you'd like me to make if you need to see one of the example images of an animal please let me know and i will post it the animal with the most votes in 24 hours will be the one i will make City of Glompton fucked around with this message at 02:55 on May 6, 2020
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May 6, 2020 02:25
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Heather Papps posted:pig is my vote but uh more importantly sunglasses: make the sunglasses. whatever animal we end up with, i'll def make sunglasses. good call
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May 6, 2020 15:16
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last call... |
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May 7, 2020 02:08
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i cannot do a slothctopus bc the sweet lil sloth doesn't seem to have very defined footies and also i don't know i'm at the level of being able to make combo animals yet would those of you who said slothctopus like to clarify your preferred animal between the two? nut posted:add 2 votes for raccoon via my family tell them to please come post otherwise their votes are disqualified i'm sorry thems the rules
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May 7, 2020 03:29
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thank you all for voting here is where we landed (i threw PSP's vote in both sloth and octopus piles) sloth - 4 raccoon - 2 alpaca: 2 octopus: 3 pig: 1 owl: 2 goku: 2 sunglasses: 1 with that it looks like i'll be making a sloth wearing sunglasses next we need to decide on the sloth's colors
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May 7, 2020 15:47
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sloth will require 6 pieces - a body back, a body front, a face, eyes, and a nose  it seems like voting might be too complicated for this so let's simplify and vote for the body color or colors, and i'll select face, eyes and nose colors (although if you have input on them please feel free to chime in) what color or colors should be used for the body back and body front of the sloth? here are our choices:
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May 7, 2020 15:57
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i figured as much but it's important that i ask 
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May 7, 2020 16:57
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i will be working on this over the weekend but my internet went out yesterday afternoon and they don't think it will be fixed until Monday so i probably will hold off on photo updates until then |
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May 8, 2020 23:07
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today we are making sloth i got started last night so let's catch up -  here are my supplies for making the body - trace the stencil then cut out. for anything black, it recommends holding the stencil against it and cutting around since tracing won't show  well those didn't come out as well as i wanted. the sharpie pen soaked in a little too much and i didn't want the leftover ink to ruin our little fellow:  it's also quite difficult to cut the felt against the tiny sunglasses stencil:  so i tried again with a regular ball point pen. also had the brilliant thought to use a white eyeliner pencil to trace on the black (although it didn't really work too well):  almost forgot face markings and nose:  success! ready to start stitching: 
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May 16, 2020 18:50
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i started trying to stitch his little smile on last night and ran into some trouble. how did they do it for the picture? idk but i am not having a good time trying  going to do what he says and take it slow i guess
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May 17, 2020 19:04
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we left off here... there is a problem, i think they cheated when they made their examples:  well we wanted sunglasses anyway right?  i thought maybe they stitched the nose on to make it smaller but i really do not know, i don't see stitches on theirs. oh well  this is as far as i got, i have an island to build after all (say those Nooks look an awful lot like the raccoon in this project book don't they...) 
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May 21, 2020 07:08
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this afternoon i got his face stitched on. it was hard because there is not very much room! i pulled out the stitches several times around the sunglasses trying to do a better job. i'm not a thread person but i did try   the body will be next, maybe tonight maybe not, i'm watching she-ra, it's hard to watch if i am trying to wokr
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May 26, 2020 02:19
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working on sloth today and i hopefully will finish him soon! i wish my stitches were a little more consistent but i guess that comes with practice  here is the back side, it is two pieces of the blue felt bc it was really thin  my thread has to be refilled so i had to knot it on the inside, i'm supposed to make french knots but in spite of a friend trying to teach me how, i'm hopeless at french knots, i'm sorry  soon it will be time to stuff the sloth and there is a special addition that i will show you before it is stitched up
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May 31, 2020 21:28
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ready to stuff sloth  but first... 
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May 31, 2020 23:02
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this lil guy deserves to have a heart i'm a little messier bc the smaller the felt thing the harder it is to stitch also no one will see this   not too shabby tho!  other sloth stuffing items include some beans for weight (which i found gave my 2nd penguin a nice feel) as well as some poly-fill  heartening  ready for final stitching, kind of regretting making that be on the leg side, it seemed like a good idea at the time and less like a good idea now 
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May 31, 2020 23:03
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had a last-min burst of inspiration to add a magnet to his lil paw for stickiness finished!  hopefully my final knot holds idk i'm not good at knots  just chillin w/his pal   thank you byob for your help in selecting sloth as the subject. i mostly enjoyed doing this project. i learned a few things, like, i would probably benefit from better quality felt and floss/thread, and i should start with stitching the hard parts first. also i need to learn how to make knots that aren't granny knots
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May 31, 2020 23:48
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if u only eat 1 magnet its ok
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Jun 1, 2020 01:42
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thank you i'm really glad i thought of it, it was a spur of the moment thing
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Jun 1, 2020 01:55
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