Finished

This is the 2010 Games Mascot finished. I had to paint him orange and he stands at 47 inches tall or 120 cm.

Trucks Continued

These are the fabrics i will be using.
Shiny silver for the windows appliqued on, black for the wheels made separately, red for the lights appliqued on and green for trucks.
While i was looking for fabrics i came across this delightful green fabric, I am thinking Monster Pillows here, for the two 3 year olds. More on that later.

Baby Trucks

Goodie! I have my camera back!
Inspired by Jodie Carleton of Ric-Rac Designs freebie http://vintagericrac.blogspot.com/2009/03/bee-bah-bee-bah-emergency-tutorial.html I am going to make a couple of boy toy trucks for my nephews in England when i go next month to the U.K. to see them for the first time. the first picture shows the materials used to make the patterns for the two toys. I went to Zart Art and replenished my cardboard requirements, which is the way i like to make my shapes.
having drafted them up using graph paper, the easiest way to do shapes not being a math person i transferred the design onto cardboard. Many of the shapes are going to double up on the transport to make things easier and to make them look like they belong as a group. Added to these two will be a car and a bike, but more on that later. They need to have seam allowances added i will do that on the fabric befor i cut it out. The windows and the grill are the same sizes and i will appliques them onto the fabric first whilst it is still flat. The wheels will be made separately. This one is the truck.
This one is the Tipper truck.
taped up to show the shape.
thew shape of the tipper truck.

Moving House

My daughter who works in Bathurst moved house over the weekend, and my youngest also moved house on the same day, quite a coincidence! He has moved into Greensborough, just a couple of suburbs away with his girlfriend Renee. He had a very action packed Saturday. 1. Move house. 2. Go to a friends engagement party. 3. Play in his band in the finals competition. and on top of all of that HIS BAND WON!! congratulations to the boys in Venomartre.
Today, It is quiet in the house and i am going to make some toys, don't know what i am going to make yet, I just need to make something.
Have a lovely day.

Auntie Me

I became an Auntie! My sister had a baby boy on the 6th of this month. Welcome to the world, Sydney Michael!!! Both mother and baby are doing well, I have been busy making baby clothes, thinking about my sister all week, thinking, not much time left, Congratulations!!!!!

No Camera

I will not be posting for a couple of weeks cos i have no camera.
My middle son has gone to Thailand and taken the camera with him. He will be back on the 14th.

Games Mascot Continued

This is the nose.
Black cotton fabric, white chalk pencil, and scissors. I traced around the shape, cut it out, sewed the darts and stuffed. Made a gathering around the outside edge and pulled it closed at the back encasing the stuffing.
I sewed the nose to the muzzle and then sewed that on top of the whiskers. The whites of the eyes were sewn on and black marker was used to do the black of the eyes and the dots for where the whiskers will go on the muzzle. The whole thing was then sewn onto the head and the stripes were glued and sewn onto the face.
I had been without my camera for a few days so i was not able to show how i assembled him step by step as i would have liked but here he is.
I went to Savers an opp shop in Greensborough and was fortunate in finding him some clothes. and bought him a pair of blue shorts and a plain white T shirt and on the computer i found the logo of the games. I then made the logo the size i wanted and reversed it, printed it onto transfer paper and ironed it on.
He has socks, just needs runners and a few finishing touches, I do have to colour in his skin using orange pencils, cos he is not supposed to be brown, add some whiskers and he will be done.