Mood: Gooood…
Listening to: Barenaked Ladies – Big Bang Theory theme song… did I mention I’m hooked?
Yes, I’m making hedgehogs… like.. to put needles in when you sow…
I’m using felt… gray, light brown and brown… black beads for eyes and tiny black bead for nose. And some foam rubber for the base and under the top so the needles stay… I don’t know if I’ll use it under the top yet. I bought it just in case, really. I’ll have to figure out how dense the hedgehog will be when I start stuffing it.
I started up by cutting the gray foam rubber thing into egg like shapes… kinda… like free handed…
and then I started messing things up and cut the felt free handed into one long wide strip for the body of the hedgehog.
I haven’t sown it together yet because, seeing as I think I have messed up, I need to think on how to do his nose.
I think I know how to do it, but I need to wait for the glue to dry. I used a universal glue.. I could have used a fabric glue, but I don’t have that, and the wood glue was glues shut and I couldn’t open it, so the only other glue I could use was universal.
So… now I’m waiting for the glue to dry. I’ll update when I get pictures and going again on the fabrication of the animal.
This is how the hedgehog, the first one, turned out. Even thought I fucked up, I am very happy with him… her… it…
I haven’t stared on the other one yet, but I will… Thinking about maybe making it a little smaller…
But for now it’s ok. I have, at least, one hedgehog… Go me…
Oh right…
First I glued the foam rubber thing to the felt and waited for it to dry. Then I started sowing the nose… and when I figured out “That will never look like a hedgehog like that” I cut it to shape. Then I attached the eyes and nose.
After that I cut out the brown felt. I wanted it round, and it got round, and a little small. Trying very hard to make the round shape fit a not round shape I struggled quite a bit. But then I remembered something my mother did when I visited her, when we were making throw pillows for her couch. We made a long round one.. like cylindrical shaped, and the end pieces were so hard to fit. So she used the showing mashine and sowed a single, far spaced line around and then another, slighly on the inside of that… she held the under thread fast, and started to pull on the top line, and the fabric started to scrunchy up. That’s what I did with my hedgie. But of course you should use a BROWN THREAD!!! which I didn’t do. I used white, and I had to removed them afterwards, and it looks kinda corney now.
But yeah… not too bad for my first time. And I can only get better, right?