Tag: sewing

  • Paw assembly is under way. If you look closely you can see the slits for the finger escapes.

  • Complete cornflower blackwork. This represents approximately 50ish hours of work.

  • Stitching up a quick little project – a tiny chickadee gardener bird!

  • A friend had been wanting a set of my paws for a while but didn’t want to ask because they knew how much work/$$ goes into them. So I decided that would be their Christmas present this year & got them to pick out fabrics from my stash. They’re gonna look sooo cute!

  • Wow, what a difference a trim makes! Left before trimming. Right after trimming.

  • Been busy doing up a basic liner and setting claws. I got lucky & could use one size liner for both paw sizes. Meanwhile, I’m impressed with the pattern which creates a firm ‘pressure fit’ around the claws, so I chose to glue instead of my usual drill’n’sew.

  • On the homeward stretch now! Although the outer motif is making me cross-eyed as I stitch it 😵

  • Sewings pads on 3 paws represents 2 full days of work. But these are looking awesome now! Foxfire must have ginormous fingers/ring finger as both me and my husbands fingers ended at around the knuckle joints in these paws, so I’m going to make a simple full liner from sports fabric to slip inside &…

  • WIP of the blackwork square design. It’s beginning to look so striking as all the elements come together.

  • Nyoomed these paw pads through the sewing machine. After I sew these in, I’m forced to wait for the package of accompanying claws to arrive to complete these sets.