Sometimes things can be serendipitous. This combination of events happened a few weeks ago. My colleague was telling me about the wallpaper they had been hanging in their soon-to-be-born grandchild’s room. It had giraffes on it and her husband was making a cut out of two giraffes to have the grandchild’s name on it. I remembered seeing a free pattern of a giraffe come by from CholyKnight/SewDesuNe like a week before. I showed the giraffe pattern and we both fell in love.
One of those giraffes needed to grace the new nursery. It just had to happen. So I got to work, asked for some inspiration for the spots, and they had the brilliant idea of doing two colours. The pattern came together fairly easily, and is just adorable. I brought it with me the next Monday when we also celebrated her birthday. Two or three days later and the baby was born, everything was just in time. Serendipity.
While I was making this first one however, I actually looked at the pattern image. It had a pastel-rainbow spotted giraffe on it. My first instinct was that ‘I can do that too!’, so I cut out a second giraffe at the same time as the first. It’s got bright rainbow spots on its side and some more blue/green spots on his head. Again, came together easily and practically at the same time as the orange one.
This one is still hanging out at home until corona has cooled down enough again to bring him elsewhere. Not sure when that will ever be. It does feel like we are stuck in these corona-times for the foreseeable future again.
Well, at least that means easy access to the sewing machine and the opportunity to make more little plushies. I know that there will be a pikachu in the future now that I’ve bought some yellow fluff-stuff!
Absoluut schattig, allebei!