creative space :: robots

This is a bit of a cheat creative space. In that it's not from this week. I made this a few weeks ago for a dear friend's 4th birthday. 

It's made with one panel of Kristen Doran robots fabric + some spots that I had in my stash. 

It took way longer to make than it should have, as I kept changing my mind on the placement of the robots..... You know how that happens; designing as you're going.

The little pocket perfectly fits his robot softie. 

Other creative things happening today include running errands for supplies our workshop this weekend at the Saviours of the Lost Arts. I've just found out that the workshop is fully booked, with a waiting list. Just more reasons why I need to find a suitable space to run some workshops of my own - a long-held dream.....

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the disco bots went to kindy

Finally finished these. Quite a while of procrastinating, and then a while of them sitting quietly on my sewing table. And then another short while of not having a dolls needle meant the bots sat with no limbs for a few days.

I finished them up on Friday morning before kindy, while drinking my morning coffee. On the verandah. With kids pushing at me,  and coffee going coldish.

I'm quite sure the disco bots had a lovely time at kindy.

The kids named them - "Mushroom Flower Butterfly" and "Sparkles".

With many many thanks to Jodie, who sent me this pattern (because of this reason).

The Disco Bot pattern is really easy to read, well written and a nice simple one for most beginners to sewing. If you look closely you'll notice that I obviously didn't take enough notice of Jodie's instructions where she says to take care when you cut and sew; as my robots have unevenly sized arms. Thankfully my kids don't mind about that, and say it's because robots are made out of recycled bits of stuff so they wouldn't be the same sized anyway.

On my softie list now is Parsley + Beet, and waiting patiently for an Ernst pattern, as I know Ari would love to have another turtle to join his clan.