Osterküken (nicht Osterkuchen)

Cute little German chicks! I was able to follow the instructions pretty easily, but I cut the beak for the first test chick too big and it looked more like a finger puppet than a cute chick. None of my rotary cutting equipment is metric so I used a 3-3/4" x 2-1/4 rectangle for the bodies.

The two-color cotton cord for the legs was a little expensive--I had the rest of the materials leftover from other projects--but it's so *cute*. And there's still enough on the spool to make a whole army of chicks, as a fun alternative to doing something meaningful.

Sloth Factory

I finished some things!

These pink sloths went to live with Roland's nieces, so I can talk about them now.

Friends forever.

The pattern is from Funky Friends Factory. I also have one of her cat patterns, but I am still looking for the perfect fabric. The sloths have velcro on their arms and legs so they can hang from branches.  We bought the pattern, body fabrics, and colored velcro in Iowa, and the felt in Freising. The claw fabrics were in my stash but I think two of the three were purchased in Germany.

Total time from start to finish: two months of not-sewing-often-enough.

The claws were tricky.

We really got inside his head.

Attaching the head to the body.

And it's just that simple.

Our test sloth (who we are calling David Lee Sloth because we are awesome) has special button eyes that we bought in Iowa along with the pattern, but the girls are young so I appliqued felt eyes onto their sloths for safety. I think I prefer this look, I like the cartoon-y-ness of the big wide eyes.

Now I want to make more stuffies. Maybe smaller, faster ones.

Stole the name off the Internet, of course!