Tuesday, December 1, 2020 A Frog with a Cookie Name

Continuing on with my felt animal adventures, I introduce to you…(drum roll…) Mr. Fig Newton! The observant among you will notice that he’s not quite done. His arms and legs and hat are just pinned on so far – I’ll hopefully finish him tomorrow. Did I ever show you a photo of the critters I made from the second chapter of the book? I don’t think I did, so hold on whilst I look back through my photos to see if I have one.

This is “Evie and the Bear.” It seems odd to me that the creator of the pattern book went to the trouble of giving eclectic and interesting names to the rest of the animals, but Bear just gets the name “Bear.”

I started these for our granddaughter, but a wise friend told me that if I make a set for one family, I’ll need to make a set for every family as more grandchildren come into the picture. I’m here to tell you that I can only do these once. Fig Newton’s arms were so hard to turn out that it took me two days of repeated tries for just one of them. The second one was equally difficult and I ended up busting a little hole in the felt, which is still there. You’d have to look hard to see it, but it was so hard to do that I couldn’t face starting it all over again. I like to call these little mistakes “homespun charm.”

Anyway, these will now be part of Grandma’s toy box at our house, but I can hardly wait to have someone play with them. I might have to do my own playing until our granddaughter is old enough.

So much fun!!!!

I’ll probably finish Mr. Newton in the morning before deleting this.