Mascots

I've become obsessed with making felt mascots. They are hand-sewn, stuffed and embellished animals and other creatures. Typically they are small enough to fit into the palm of your hand: 2.5 to 3 inches at most. I'm not normally into "cute" much, but I just can't seem to get enough of these things. I first ran across them in The Cute Book. Below was my first set. My daughters are constantly requesting more. I also made the lizard, and two of the squirrel from The Cute Book, but have no photos.

New Book of Mascots

Just recently, in a fit of insanity, I bought a pattern book of felt mascots from sewcrafty32 on eBay. The book shipped from Hong Kong, and is entirely in Japanese. However, there are lots of illustrations and most of the mascots are simple enough that you can figure it out from looking at the photo.

Here are pictures of the mascots I've made from this book.

Seal

This one was surprisingly tough. The muzzle portion ended up just under a centimeter wide. Its stuffed and turned. Crazy!

Flower Baby

The flower baby has a lot of pieces. It was difficult to keep the petals positioned as I sewed the head, so I used some temporary basting glue. I added the embellishment on the suspenders. Its a row of the star stitch from my sewing machine. I stitched long rows on the felt, then cut the strips.

Bear Hair Ties

This set of ponytail ties has a bear face attached.

And here is a set of Hello Kitty Hair ties. I made the pattern for these. I got a picture from the web of Hello Kitty and resized it so the face was roughly the size of the bear ties above. Then I traced each component of the drawing as a separate piece.