Dinosaurs!

My mom made me and my siblings giant stuffed dinosaurs when we were younger. That means she made them out of crazy awesome early 80s fabric. My sister had a purple print triceratops and my brothers had a green and a brown stegosaurus. I had a giant pink paisley brontosaurus. I named it Dino ("deeno" like on The Flintstones) and it slept in the bed with me. By giant I mean it took up half of my bed. It's about as long as I am tall now (5'3").

So my mom found these dinosaurs tucked away and brought them out of hiding for my nephews to play with. My older nephew thought they were amazing and plays with them constantly when we are at Grandma's house. I found the book she got the patterns from and decided to make my nephews their own smaller versions. I tried to pick fabric that reminded me of the cool vintage patterns my mom used, but I had to use a lot of red because it's my nephew's favorite color. Here's how they turned out:

No button eyes for this bronto - didn't want the 2 year old to chew them off.

Had to off set the flower pattern with some masculine stripes. I'm very happy with how it turned out.

I think the stegosaurus is my favorite. I am in love with that fabric. I would marry it if it were a man.

A patchwork bronto for Monkey. It had so much red on it. I hadn't planned on making two brontosaurus' otherwise I would have bought more fabric. They were just so much easier to sew and finish and I was on a time crunch. He could care less that it's such a jumble of fabrics (the other side is the paisley print, the under side is the stripe and the tail is the blue swirly dots). He just loves that it's his.

Mind Your Manners Hankies

I posted these items of awesomeness on Etsy:

I'm kind of in love with them myself. I made them for my brother-in-law and he already wants 12 more. haha. He's not getting 12 more, but he'll get more for sure. I already have one order in from a friend and one set to make for a giveaway winner on the blogject.

Braided Headbands

These were kind of difficult to photograph, but I'm sure you all get the idea. Braided headbands. I used scraps of leftover fabric from all my previous projects and braided them and sewed them to a small piece of wide elastic to give them stretch. They are unbelievably cute when they are on a real person and not a fuzzy fake head.