Tag: Turtle

Turtle

Who could say no to that adorable turtle face, even if he is a bit head-heavy.

It might have been a while, but this little turtle has been finished since June 6th, but my motivation for writing has been lacking. This turtle is, of course, a free Choly Knight/Sew Desu Ne pattern. This one was a little bit more difficult because the shell requires stopping before the end of the seam in order to have everything fit together nicely. I also sewed a wrong side to a right side in the ‘shell edge’, which meant a lot of unpicking invisible thread in high pile fabric. Not my favourite activity for sure.

The pattern has a few different options. You can choose nostrils or a smile, I chose the nostrils. You can also choose what shape the extremities would have, either flippers (my choice) or arms/legs, which basically are very similar to the tail that I used. In the examples, the shell is empty or embroidered. I chose to leave it empty because embroidery wouldn’t show up on this fabric when I tried it before.

I do think his eyes and nostril combination is particularly cute. Up next might be a frog? I think? I put eyes one of the remaining cut patterns, but I forgot which one it was. There are so many projects on my to do list that my word file ‘Projects’ has 20 separate projects listed, and it’s not complete. Curse my overactive imagination!

On a Roll (with a Bow!)

I finished the Duck skirt not long ago, and Saturday I decided to finished another UFO I had thrown in a bag in the corner (probably quite literally). See, I bought this knit fabic, it’s blue-green with turtles and apples and flowers and stuff on it (fairly.. childreny). I tried to get two shirts out of it, a while ago. I succeeded in cutting out the pieces and then my machine decided to stop working and I couldn’t figure out how to get the serger to do what I wanted. So I bagged the projects and threw them in the corner. Where they sat.. and sat .. and sat..

Today I got the bag out and finished one of the shirts. This one is a sleeveless top. Since I didn’t really have enough self fabric to finish the arm holes and neck, I took a bit of red stuff I’ve had in the closet for a while too (I’m still scared of knits, if I’m honest). I cut of a strip to finish the bits and decided I might as well use it to make a bow on the front. I’ve seen bow-blouses all around the net for a while now, and I figured I’d like one myself. If not, I can always cut the bow bit of and have a normal neckline, right?

So you might wonder what it looks like.. Don’t get scared, but here’s my fantastical kiddy top without sleeves but with a bow! Front and back first:

Front Back

And a close(r)-up of the bow and the fabric. See all the cute little turtles and apples and flowers and stuff? The colour is closer to the first picture, but I couldn’t get the flash to cooperate nicely.

Bow Details

Now, I’ll hopefully finish the other shirt soon too!