Playing by the rules

 Do you set yourself rules ? guidelines? parameters? Do you give yourselves little rewards when you have finished something? I do it all the time, then I change the rules, move the goalposts and dement myself .

 The rule for the weekend is to finish off some things, and I mean completely finished. No leaving the hand sewing for another day. 

As a result, yesterday I wound 11 little pom poms and sewed them to eleven little hats

I stuffed , closed, added ears and tails and nostrils

to eleven hat-wearing hippos.

Nobody said life (or blogging) was fair

The busier I get, the more I do , the less time there seems to be share it here on the blog.

I'm trying to wrap up the fox pattern and the polar bear pattern (an old one) and a new beginner pattern and a number of heads on sticks are calling me...

So, I get busy

and you my patient friends get Butts !

(But I give them with love)

H is for Hippo

I really don't know if I am done yet

 As is always the case, the more I make, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make and I feel the pressure of not-enough-time and too many ideas. I am not really complaining, it is a great problem to have and far far preferable to the no-ideas times.

I just want to make everything small and hand sewn with befuddled little inquiring heads, and chubby tummies and wibbly limbs.

This puzzled little man is also available on sale in my pattern shop using the code verysmallbusiness until tomorrow morning. Thanks to the people who have popped in and thanks for the love for the new friends. I was very unsure about these guys, thinking they might have been just a for-me kind of toy so I am super pleased that you like them too.

A winner of the brooch kit Crafty Squirrel giveaway ?

Angelina 

There are heads impaled on needles calling me.