My Creative Space: a robot, a wrapped rabbit, and a request

Thank you so much for everyone for voting for me in Plushie Palooza - Cam even tweeted it and Vic did a big blog post about it!! But the voting is still open and you can still vote by leaving a comment and I need lots and lots more votes!! My entry is a robot not unlike the one below. I have made a few custom ones from people wanting their own so I have decided to list one on Etsy... here he is....His name is Curtis.

I reckon he is pretty darn cute!

The response to the sew your own softie kits, Rafferty and Regina,  from my current wholesalers has been huge and very encouraging. Everyone who sees them loves them and since I have been working on them for about 5 months it is great to see them in the flesh.  I have taken new photos and am much happier with how they look now.

 

As well as the instructions you also get a little card so you can personalise each softie - this was feedback from Kate and her girls who were my official pattern testers.

I  have also changed the packaging and am much happier with it.

The perfect present for young sewers- all wrapped up and  ready to go straight under the tree!

I have been thinking a lot about packaging... what will be kind to the earth yet stop things getting dirty from grubby handprints in shops... I did want to just have the fabric of the rabbits and the instructions just all held together with a nice wooden dolly peg but everyone kept telling me they would be ruined in the shop. I have provided two made up Rabbits  for each wholesaler for display purposes. The other packaging just didn't look nice enough for retail, so this is the new improved packaging, plsu who doesn't love that red and white bakers twine!!

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