Firefly Farm

 Next up was our trip to Firefly Farm.  

We got to see a "real" unicorn!  

Heading to the haunted barn.

Watching the animals with papa.

Looking at the creepy things with Papa.

Checking out the dragon with mom.

Even the Haunted Barn had a quilt block on the outside!

Watching the unicorn with mom.

Fun day at Firefly Farm!

~XOP~

Sometimes You Just Have To

I have a friend that I work with that recently asked me an innocent enough question. 

 "Do you have any fabric scraps I could have to make a tooth fairy bag for my daughter?" 

 Do I have scraps?  pfffffttt.  Ahhh, just a few, LOL!  

I gave this some thought, asked questions regarding favorite color etc. 

 It was determined she loves lots of colors and unicorns.  

OK, don't worry, I can help you with this.  

BUT...you know I could not just let her hand stitch a bag, right?  

I researched on the internets (all of them) and found this!

Is this not the cutest tooth fairy pillow ever??  

It was machine embroidered and then hand stitched together.  

I don't have the ability to machine embroider, so what to do, what to do? 

 I decided I could try to embroider this by hand.  

So I drew up my own pattern and tried.  Here is what I came up with.

I did all the stitching by hand, and bought the aqua flower and sewed that onto the unicorn.

I put a string on it too, so it could hang from a dresser or bed post.

I could not be happier with how it turned out!  

It was pretty time consuming, but maybe that's because I had no actual pattern and was making it up as I went along, eh?  

It took me about 3 hours from start to finish to make, so not casual.  

The one in the ETSY shop was about $22 and I feel, with labor and materials, this was a more than fair price for it.  

I would have to charge more if I was selling mine for the time alone.

When my friend gave it to her daughter this was her response.  

I'm told that she was telling everyone all about her amazing unicorn all weekend long too.

It's certainly nice to know your gifts are so well appreciated!

I scanned in my template for the unicorn that I drew if anyone is interested.

You can find the link to the template here

I traced the pattern on to sparkly felt and cut on my drawn line.  

It should be about 3.75"- 4" across when you print it.

I am NO expert on this linking to Google docs, so hopefully you can print it correctly.

If not, email me and I can send it to you via email.

I satin stitched the ears and the horn.  

I outlined the horn in gold floss and crossed it over the horn in a zig zag pattern. 

 I just did some improv lazy daisy flowers and leaves on stems and a few other embroidered flowers.  You could add whatever you like.  

WIPs With Friends

I realize it have not posted since that BIG post about my vacation. 

 I had a class last Saturday with my SIL to work on our Fiberworks quilts.  

If you remember, mine is the orange cat and hers was the seahorse. 

 This is what mine started off looking like.  

I fused him to the Pattern Eze.  

Then I had to cut him out and somehow adhere him to a background fabric.

I chose to use this text print.  I found it at Hawthorne Threads. 

 It is all cat breed names 

(not all encompasing, of course, but many different breeds and common names).  

I just checked and they don't seem to have it anymore but you can find some here using this link.

I used some fabric glue and just tacked it down then used invisible thread and 

stitched it on to the background.

Then the fun begins.  I used Steam-a-seam II lite and fused it so lots of different fabrics that I thought would be good for the cat and cut the motifs out.  

I peeled off the paper and stuck them to the cat.  

I didn't fuse anything in place yet as I only got part of the cat covered.  

I believe that I may need to move things around so I won't fuse until then.  

The nice part about using the SAS lite is that once you peel the paper off, and before you fuse it,

 it is still kind of sticky. 

 This is how far I got from 10am until 4pm on Saturday.

I still have the majority of the left side to do and his face.  

So far I am totally smitten with how he is turning out.  I am especially in love with his tail!

Additionally, I pulled the fabric to start on a second unicorn. 

 These are the fabrics I selected.  

I am thinking about making the horn out of the dark teal and the stripe on the right.  

What do you think?  

Or should I stick with a gold?

I will link up with Sew Fresh Quilts.

Now it is your turn to link up here with your WIPs.  Use the linky and show us what you are working on.

~XOP~

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