Anyone need plushies for christmas

A friend of mine over at http://octokittycrafts.blogspot.com/ is having a huge sale for her crochet plushies on facebook. https://www.facebook.com/octokittycreations

She's done some amazing stuff and I don't generally like crochet stuff, but I want all her mini plushies. it's insane!

Go take a look if you have a moment nad might be on the hunt for something fun.

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. 

More ponys

I'm really sorry I haven't making my usual posts. I'm gearing up for Tortuga at the end of the month so I'm using all my time to make stuff. Hopefully I'll have one more post this week that is on time (hopefully). if not I will at least keep trying to update with what i am working on.

Currently I just finished the last pony.

You've seen the tutorial I used to make these. However, I gave up and had to do some modifying to it. It was just being too much of a pain in a few places.

What I modified was the little flange pieces on the belly piece, the piece that connects the butt and neck to the side pieces. I widened them both because the pattern had them too small, or my printing make them too small or something. Either way its a bit nicer to sew now. I also am playing with adjusting that cut out in the center of the tummy. It hasn't worked right once for me so far, but I haven't found a decent solution. It's suppose to cause the ponies to keep their legs together, but it's really not.

If I figure something out I'll make a post. For now, pictures.

This is Dr. Whooves. Not sure which version, but he came out rather cute.

 One of my two naughty ponies for Totuga which is a more adult event. Her name is shibari. She really like ropse lol.

 This is the second Naughty Pony. I might make more, but no promises for now. This is leather head. He's got a fascination with toys so his little satchel has all sorts of stuff in it and he has a little riding crop on the other side.

 Simple Big Mac. I feel like I need to make his yoke that he wears, but I'm undecided.

Finally, Mare do well. This was more of a challenge. I had a blue body I was originally going to make into Luna but could not find the right color fur for her. So in trying to make her clothing I made a purple body, decapitated Luna, sewing that head on to here and started the decorating process after that. Suffice to say hats are a pain to make, but I really do like how she came out.

If I have time I plan to make a pirate pony and maybe one more naughty pony. However, I need to switch over after this for a while a make a bunch of wire ears so I can't keep spending time on these for now. I've made my goal I need to switch now.

ALso two of these guys will be for sale on my etsy because I need some money. Here is the link: https://www.etsy.com/shop/KristelsKreations

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

My Little Plushie

Today I'm working on plushies to see how they sell at a few events. These will be hard to sell because I can't sell them when I'm with my partner because she makes crochet plushies.

Either way it gives me something new to try.

I use this pattern here: http://voodoo-tiki.deviantart.com/art/Beginner-Pony-Plushie-Pattern-1-319925160
http://voodoo-tiki.deviantart.com/art/Beginner-Pony-Plushie-Pattern-2-319925387

Her sewing tutorial is a good one too. http://voodoo-tiki.deviantart.com/art/Beginner-Pony-Plushie-Tutorial-319926863

It's an ok pattern, but there are some issues I've found. It's a personal thing possibly. Either way it's been a fun process.

This is what it looks like once it's all sewn together.

Here is what it looks like flipped right side out.

And here is one after some stuffing.

As you can see above I need to finish stuffing that one and then sew up the neck. This is what the neck looks like right now.

Once this is suitably stuffed and sewn up I can then decorate the outside with hair and tail and whatever other extras I want to add. 

This is a fully stuffed one. Ignore the blue. Her names Inkwell for a reason. :P (That and i was dumb and used a pen to trace out the pattern. Don't use pen on felt. )

Here's one with detail work. I glued on the hair, printed out eyes and sealed them with modge podge then glued them on. 

Here she is all done. The cutie mark is painted on and her face details are simple stitches.

One last touch was some small glasses I made out of wire and glued to her face.

Like I siad the pattern has weird bits, so she sits funny. I could be sewing it wrong too, but all of them so far have sitting issues. ??

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