trio

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what an intense 5 days! I changed my initial material idea from wool to organic cotton, which is very soft, durable and almost felt like wool. I also made slight pattern adjustments on the legs/hip area on each animals… which ended up with me … Continued

fast tracking a project

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i was working (slowly) on my original plush designs in Marvelous Designer. Now I have a charity event I would like to help so I’m fast tracking my art piece project. Those are very simple pieces at first glance but I … Continued

buta-kun

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Buta(Pig)-kun Plush4.0, done! I wrapped this project over Thanksgiving break and added one more piece… Buta-kun Hat 2.0. as a gift to my friend’s kid and this one is a “winter version”. Added soft touch faux fur as a lining instead of cotton. … Continued

back to the machine

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to the sewing machie that is. Off and on I’ve been working on the Pig and was up to 4th version. I decided to use 100% Italian wool (oh, fancy!) with more stream lined silhouette. Draft, cut, sew, fix and … Continued

tailoring

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The easiest part of whole process was sewing the bodysuit. I’ve done this so many times and I immediately fell into my comfort zone. Every steps in 3D printing was new and I had to figure it out by myself … Continued

bunnies

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Just simply I like to make a plush for special someone. I looked up a pattern from a book by Yuko Hara and I modified for microsuede. Also I changed up some propotions here and there. I learn from good patterns how to cut … Continued

from books(2)

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I made a rhino while ago from this book from Japan (Dakishimetai! Doubutsu Nuigurumi by Emi Kimura) . I love their clean silhouette of this patterns. I used micro suede. ちょっと前に”抱きしめたい!動物ぬいぐるみ 木村恵美 著”という本からサイを作りました。輪郭デザインがきれいなところがたまらないです。マイクロスウェードを使いました。

Not A Turkey

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My husband thought I started to sew a turkey plush. It’s not a a turkey! After Thanksgiving while the rest of America was busy shopping for Christmas, I was home experimenting with drafting clean silhouette animal body patterns. To me Holiday … Continued

from books (1)

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Aranzi Aronzo publishes really cool and fun sewing books of their cute characters. I got the book form Japan but I think there are English versions available nowadays. I’ve never sewn jersey material for plush toy and it was challenging at … Continued

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