Moogles Complete

Today is adding the face to the moggles. There are a variety of ways to add their faces. Acrylic pain is one way. Sewing is another. Really its up to you.

Each way has diffeents ups and downs.

Acrylic:
more details, different faces available. quick
down side is that acrylis won't hold or look too good on fur cuz the fur causes it to pop up a bit.

Sewing:
Lasts longer, tigher seal agains the fabric
time consumig and less choice for details.

Again it's all up to you.  I did one of each here for show.

AS for faces, you can really do anything. Know that if you sew you'll need a thick thread. The little mebroidery thread I sued wasn't quite enough. it keep sinking into the fabric and disappearing. I ended up choosing to paint all of them.

Lastly I added the wings. I had to first sketch out a wing pattern I liked.

Once i had a pattern I needed to trace, cut and sew the pieces. When cutting these remember to leave a gap between the line and where you cut. otherwise these might not be sewable in the end.

As I guessed they were not sewable. So I ended up just glueing them on. They still look rather cute. 

All that is left is the little dongle above their heads. I"m going to take some thin wire and see if  I can wrap some of the red dots I have and then stick the wire into their heads. I hope it works.

Feel free to ask questions, leave comments, etc. I"m always up for a chat!

New toys

Everything on my backlog has been put on hold for this!

I cracked recently while remembering my granfather, who was more of a father to me than anything else. I lost him recently, very recently. It was a whirlwind of events, but i was thinking about him and his rules on tools. See he use to tell me that if you have a job you're trying to do and you don't have the right tool then you better get it right quick. Otherwise, you're going to screw up the job. I'd been considering getting a new machine and figured if I'm going to do that it might as well do embroidery too. I've been wantign to do detail work on my sewing stuff for a while now but my hand sewing stinks. (I'm not kidding) After thinking about it for about 2 days and talking with my husband I caved and we picked up this machine. I haven't stopped sewing for a week.

I'll type that again.

I haven't stopped sewing for a week!!

Sewing before took the right mood, cuz my other little machine took so much work(read as fighting) but this thing is amazing.

Normally, I'd be against Brothers brand machines. I've just had way too many problems with their stuff in the past, but I just...

All week?! Only stopping for bathroom and sleep.

I'm not kidding.

I'll do a better review of the machine later.

For now. Here is a slew of things this machine has done.

Must have more colors. Found a good site for decent colors at a nice price.