Reindeer prototype

When we saw this months Crafts Beautiful magazine in Asda, we just had to buy it! On the front cover was a beautiful reindeer made out of Tilda fabric. He was sooo cute, we were desperate to make one each! We immediately went onto their website to download the pattern and we were so disappointed when it said there was a technical error their end! We waited anxiously for a few days and finally, they sorted the problem and we were able to download said reindeer pattern!

We both wanted to make a reindeer for ourselves as soon as possible but unfortunately, my arm being in plaster sort of scuppered any chance of us going to Paulines Patchwork to buy some beautiful co-ordinating materials!   It also scuppered making them from a practical point of view, me being unable to use a pair of scissors or anything! But still desperate to make him, we decided we'd cobble together what we called a prototype! One where we could learn all our mistakes on!  So we grabbed three co-ordinated materials we did have (red!) and set about making him. 

 

Although he looks quite different from the one in the magazine, we still love him to bits! We think he looks rather Christmassy! We need to buy some bigger black beads for his eyes as the ones we have are not quite big enough. We still intend to make one each with nicer material but for now, we shall admire this one!

Sewing the base of the feet to the legs was quite challenging. We tried pinning it in position first but this made it rather impossible to sew. Then we tried tacking it in place first and this proved to be a better way of doing it. The legs have sand in the bottom. Normally, we'd make a little pouch to put the sand in first, then slip the pouch in the legs. This time, we just poured the sand into the leg and to our surprise, none of it poured out!