Sunday, July 4, 2010

A New Book

I've been wanting to buy a book of patterns to make more stuffed animals, but it's been difficult not only to find one at a bookstore around here, but to find *the one* I want. There are a few books that I've "kind of" wanted, but there was one book in particular that I saw online that I really wanted to look through. I haven't been able to find that book, so I purchased it on Amazon and am now anticipating the delivery of my sought-after book. In the meantime, it's a long weekend and I wanted to have something new to do this weekend. There's really only so much you can find online as far as patterns go. There's a lot, I'll admit that, but I've gone through all of the free stuffed animal patterns I can find and I've saved and tried all the ones that interest me. Let this be known: there are a TON of ugly patterns out there.

The point of my story is, after searching different stores for a book that interests me, I finally decided on this book (picture from Amazon):
I opted for this book because a friend of mine wanted me to make her a tea set and I had been having a difficult time re-making the tea pot I made for my first tea set. This book has a pattern for a tea pot. So that was the first thing I worked on and the tea pot turned out alright. I altered the pattern a little to fit my tastes, so it looks a little different than the one in the book. The other item I made was this:
Cute little bunny in his PJ's. Mine didn't turn out quite how I would have wanted, but I was running out of blue yarn. I plan to make a teddy bear in PJ's...at least I think I might. And hopefully that will turn out better than this one. At least I finally have a good pattern for a bunny.

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