Thursday, July 21, 2011

Gone Camping

Daddy, Momma & little bunny
packed their sleeping bags and went camping.
I spent much of last week pattern testing for Florence of Flossie Teacakes.
I have been following her blog for at least the past year,
really enjoying so many of her projects.
Then this spring, I absolutely fell in love with the sleeping bags
that she made for her children's teddy bears.


The pattern comes with 3 sizes,
but is really customizable to whatever stuffed animal or doll you'd like.
  This is an extremely well written, easy to follow pattern, with lots of great photos.
  I was never frustrated with it, and I really enjoyed the process!
The back sides
Each sleeping bag is like a mini quilt -- top and bottom layers, quilted however you'd like.  On these DS Quilts bags, I did wavy line quilting.
On the sheep sleeping bags (below), I did free motion quilting.
Her pattern includes a very nice tutorial on single fold bias binding --
 I had never done this before, and was surprised at how easy it was to learn!




Each sleeping bag has a soft pillow for the bunny's head, and I finished the inside of the bag (after stuffing the pillow) with a decorative wavy stitch.



These little sleeping bags were such fun to put together.
You should have seen the smiles on my children's faces!
I will definitely be making more, for Christmas, birthday gifts, etc.
Pattern available here!

8 comments:

  1. Saw these on Florences blog - These are so sweet! Love the inbuilt pillow too! Lovely to find your blog!

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  2. so cute michelle, as usual i love the material choices : ) lucky stuffed animals and dolls at your house!!

    have FUN on vacation .... be in touch when you get back.

    i got the envelope in the mail, thanks. and the girls went to the park deal last night with some friends --- they had a blast! zoe talked the whole time apparently and ella had fun but was quiet. later she told me she just really likes to talk with me instead : )

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  3. Thank goodness I have a 2year old neice and I have someone to use all these adorable patterns for! My 21 yr old daughter would probably appreciate a little sleeping bag for a softie but she might look at me a little strange if I were to make one for her! Love these little sleeping bags

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  4. these are adorable! so so cute :-)

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  5. These are just adorable! Any little kid would love them!

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  6. They're beautiful! Thank you so, so much for all your work testing the pattern, and thank you for the link too. x

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