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est:
Ok you guys, I finished off this project about an hour ago.  It got kind of fiddly toward the end & I know that it could have been done a lot better, but I guess that means I learned something, right?  Hopefully the next project will turn out better.

Here I've laid out and pinned a corona for the sun:



I've left one part off so that I can use that area for stuffing.  I sewed around all the other bits, then stuffed it, then sewed up the hole.  Pretty simple.

The next pic is the kind of stitching I used around the outside.  Went down, across and back up.  Didn't loop back, just kept going.  Then when I got to the end I turned around and came back using the same holes to make it stronger & so that it looked the same as the stitching around the face elements (this is from when I was half done)



And here's the finished product:



One insanely happy sun!

Not sure if I am going to keep this for myself  due to it being my first project, or give it to my dad for father's day next weekend.  I mean, I am pretty sure that I am going to keep it, because I am not sure my dad would appreciate a sun pillow with a big shit-eating grin on it.  I wonder if I could think of something else simple to make in time for next sunday.

schimmy:
Hah, that's awesome. Can I have it? For totally manly reasons, of course.

thehoopiestfrood:
Aww! That's so lovely! You are excellent at sewing, I really thought you'd used a machine to do it!

Over here you can get tiny little sewing machines for about £10 like this but I don't know how good they actually are - you can get them in Superdrug and random places. You can also get proper full sized ones very cheap in Lidl, but I don't know if you have an equivalent of Lidl in Australia.

est:
Lidl sounds like Aldi, and I am sure I could probably pick up a super-cheap sewing machine from Aldi if I wanted one.  I think that hand-sewing is fun for the moment though.  Maybe once I get over the novelty of it I might look at prices and see if it's worth it.  Thanks for the tip!

thehoopiestfrood:
Ah yes, Lidl and Aldi are pretty much interchangeable over here in Britain, they're in pretty fierce competition as far as I can tell. I know my Mum got a sewing machine from one a few years back when her old one died. Basically if you want something like that and you're willing to wait long enough, they will turn up pretty cheap in one or the other. It's how I kitted out my flat. :P

I stick to handsewing myself if I ever do sew anything as I am terrified of sewing my hand to something using the machine. :P

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