#sewityourself

Here's some instructions if you also want to make some 😊

I still need to draw up a sized petal template but I've also made a youtube video (my first one, it's horrible 😂) if you are more of a visual learner.

1. Cut 1 brown corduroy circle 1 wool batting circle and 2 green 2/3 circles (for the back)

2. Cut 12 pairs of petals (24 pieces total)

3. Sew petal pieces right sides together 1cm away from edges. Turn right sides out and top stitch along the edge. Stitch centre petal seam. Repeat for all petals

4. Quilt your brown centre to the wool. I made lines about 1.5cm apart making a grid.

5 Pin 6 of your petals centre first evenly spaced around the edge. Pin the last 6 over the gaps. Sew 1 cm from the edge

6 Roll hem the straight edge of the 2/3 circle pieces (a rol hem to folding and then folding again)

7 make 3 button holes evenly spaced on one back piece

8 secure the pieces to eachother both having right sides up, creating a pocket

9 fold on your petals and pin your back piece right sides together to your flower front. Sew 1.5cm around the edge and turn out through the pocket.

10 stuff your pillow then add buttons to fit the holes you made earlier. I do the buttons last to make sure they fit nicely when fully puffed.

This month is zipping very quickly!

The tomato has perked up and started producing some fruit

The peppers are kinda eh, they'll have nothing then a decent flush.

Some radishs.

Carrot reseed (no sprouts yet) and far end a yellow squash

I'm leaving the weed to grow a bit bigger. I'll be picking them for salad for the chickens

Other side of the row, with the squash plant in view :)

Sunflowers, chard and far end sunflowers again.

Chard close up.

Peas coming in. And carrots I'm leaving to go to seed

Flowers to seed of the carrots :)

And it's taken a year, but i finished the jackets i started last year! Had to stitch rip the zipper in both at leats once, but i learned a lot.

That's it for now!

🍏 Froggy doll 🐸

✧I SUMMON THE FURRY PUFF BALL - KURIBOH!✧

100% hand-sewn by me. I’ve been wanting to try sewing plush for YEARS now and finally able to find some time to practice doing it. Decided to choose Kuriboh from YuGiOh since it looks easy and perfect for beginners.

Throughout the process, aside from accidentally pricked myself with the needle at some point and yelling “OW” during call chat with friends, Kuriboh’s hands took me the longest time to make since they literally had me going through several trials and errors to figure out the correct size and sewing method I want.

Pretty happy how it turned out overall, especially knowing that this is my first ever completed hand-sewn plush! If time permits, I’d love to try out sewing more plush :D

(He’s now chilling in my YuGiOh collection corner, alongside my handmade Millennium Puzzle)

The amount of official Clone Wars merch is woeful, and for what there is, I canny afford. :(

(If I could afford to buy from independent creators as well I 11/10 would)

So I took matters into my own hands, embroidered Five’s helmet, turned it into a patch and sewed it to one of my sweaters.

Not bad for a shiny first attempt 😏