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est:
So uh, I guess I'm learning to sew in anticipation of the craft exchange thread.  I'm making a kind of plush doll/pillow at the moment, and to keep it simple I've started with a simple round sun.

Laying things out & planning:


Tidier eyes after I've sewn them up: (please ignore absolutely horrid linoleum)


Close-up of stitching:



This is kind of fun, actually.  Not sure if I am going to sew those pupils on with some black thread or if I'm gonna glue them on.  I am leaning more towards the sewing option at the moment, I think.  Seems like it would be sturdier.

mysteriousbriefcase:
oh wow, i'm impressed.  i learned to sew by hand back when i was into the whole "punk rock" sew patches and zippers on stuff phase, but it never looked as good as that.  my stitching was horrible.

redglasscurls:
Nice, are you hand-sewing?

Lines:
if you're hand sewing, then, wow, you're doing really well. if not, hey, still looks good!

est:
Yeah, I am hand-sewing using a method that Heather taught me (thanks Heather!)  It is a fairly simple stitch, but apparently it is pretty sturdy.  You come up one stitch away from the last stitch, then loop back onto it and down, then start over.  It is kind of slow going back and forth like that, but if it means that the thing doesn't bust open I'll take the time to do it right.

I could probably finish the face & start sewing the edges tonight.  One problem though is that I forgot to get padding for the insides.  So I may go out at lunch and grab some padding and maybe some brighter yellow felt for a kind of flare of triangles around the sun if I want to try to get a bit trickier.

If I want to get really tricky (for a first project, anyway) I guess I could get a yellow-gold zipper to sew in and a kind of pillow insert to put inside rather than simple padding.  But I guess that if I wanted to do that I would have had to have bought the pillow first and based the rest of the design around the pillow so that it fit properly :(

I think it's probably best I keep this thing simple and make whatever I decide to do next a bit trickier.  I usually have a tendency to go directly for attempting the best thing evar, and then get discouraged when I fail.  So it would be nice to take this in steps instead this time.

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