Anyways, if you had checked out my other fabric projects using Stampin' Up! fabrics, you might have seen a stuffed owl I had made. My mother-in-law thought she'd pick me up a pattern book on stuffed animals while she was in our birth country. Glancing through the book, which has technical terms in Chinese that I don't understand, but can probably figure out. But it takes work on my part. Then I saw the patterns.
OMFG! This page contains patterns for 8 different animals! There's lines going every which way. I swear only Chinese people would try to save paper this way. Argh! Well, it wouldn't be so bad if I just tucked the book away and never to be brought out again. Except, my daughter's sharp eyes spotted it. She saw a goose in one of the pictures. Ever since then, she pestered me about making her a goose. I couldn't take it anymore after 3 days and I told her I would try to figure it out. A couple more days of her asking whether it's done, I decided I had better make something for her or this will never end. I braved myself and tried to figure out the pattern here and drew it on my fabric. Without reading any instructions, I tried my best to figure out how the pieces were to go together.
Well, let me tell you something, pattern following and sewing is not for birds! I have decided I'm more of a sew a kinda-straight line and call it good kind of a sewer. It didn't really take that long. But it sure was difficult to move the pieces through the machine sometimes. I probably would do it a bit differently, if I absolutely had to make it again. Oh yeah, it has no eyes, because I didn't want to sew by hand. All the openings were top stitched closed. There were many slipped stitches that had to be re-done. But it's just me being an amateur, I'm sure. Oh well. She LOVES this thing, and that's all a mother can ask for!
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