Syd and Matt helped me make the BEST Christmas gift for our favorite baby.
I wanted to make our favorite baby a set of Nutcracker-themed stuffies to go with a board book retelling of The Nutcracker that I'd bought for her (Will's bookstore scratch-off birthday present has been a great excuse for me to do a bunch of shopping in local independent bookstores), but I couldn't find ANY patterns for anything close to what I had in mind...
... so I commissioned my favorite artist to make some!
Syd drew me five Nutcrackers on her Wacom, and then I commissioned my favorite graphic designer to lay them out in just the right way that I could have them printed as a fat quarter from Spoonflower:
And then I took over doing some actual work myself!
I matched each character up with a complementary color of solid cotton from my stash--
--drew a simple outline around each character (Frixion heat-erasable pens for the win!) and cut them out--
--and finally put each one right sides together with its backing fabric, sewed it most of the way around, turned and stuffed it, and ladder-stitched the opening closed.
I am delighted with our little set of Nutcracker stuffies--
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