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Handmade Softie for Grace

KarinaJean — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:52:43 +0000

This post had been months in waiting.

My Good Cousin was expecting her first baby. She is one of my favorite people in the world so it follows that I wanted to make her something really lovely. I decided to splash out on some forest green mohair from Germany, and construct some type of softie critter. Part cat, part lamb, part Gizmo from the Gremlin’s movie. I used green paisley patterned fabric for added cute details.

The end result was a little more squat than my design sketch. But maybe a little more friendly?

A test run on Master J was a gleeful success.

I am told Baby Grace is also quite taken with her fluffy new friend.

Schaffas2 – the results

KarinaJean — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 10:10:52 +0000

A little while back, on Feb the 1st this year to be exact, I told you about a charity auction I was involved in ~ Schaffas2. Screamdance, Adelaideans Sam Barratt & Chris Edser, hand-picked art-friends from all over the world to customize their own breed of schaffas – including Me – YAY!. We were each sent a similar blank shape and given free reign to add, subtract, paint or destroy these objects. This is my creation:
“Mr Schaffas-Uffagis used to have 4 legs. One day he was at the beach having a grand time. He was chasing a ball through the sand, turned too suddenly and tore the cruciate ligaments in his back knees.
He could not afford surgery, so he got a wheel alignment instead. He is happy enough. He has a one-legged bird friend called Peg-ales”

Ah Mr Schaffas-Uffagis and your wheel alignment…I wish I could have kept you for myself..but I let you go for a good cause.

You can check out Mr Schaffas-Uffagis and the rest of the 2010 Schaffas creations at meet the schaffas and just in case you want all the Schaffas for yourself there is a book that documents all of the Schaffas Two exhibition in 2010 and a selection of the Schaffas from the 2008 show. Buy it from screamdance or urban cow studio

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Owl Friends

KarinaJean — Mon, 24 May 2010 03:07:17 +0000

So many new babys have been born into our circle of friends this month. Good friends of ours welcomed Baby boy bright and early on a Monday morning. He snuck in a few hours before he was due to be induced… So when I was deciding what I should make for baby F, I thought he should have some wise owl friends to go with his rather wise decision. I made him a soft plush mother owl with white leather eyes, blue patchwork cotton face and bobbly ears. I also made him a mini owl on a timber ring..ready for his first teeth.

Dolly for a Little Lass

KarinaJean — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:51:48 +0000

Little girl S was turning 1. No longer a baby-as such, she needed a little lassie to march into toddler-hood with. So I made her Ms dolly. Ms Dolly; with her sooty eyelashes, pigtails, belly button and ruffle cloth nappy.

Ms Dolly was made a few months back and since then Little Girl S and Ms Dolly have been around the world and back again on a grand adventure.

Stash Pocket Steggles

KarinaJean — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:53:13 +0000

A little boy I know turned 2 recently. I wanted to make him a cool boyish toy that he could hide all his treasures in. So I made him stash-pocket steggles – a big plush Stegosaurus with a hidey-hole in his back. I had never made a plush toy for a child over the age of 1 and I wasn’t sure how it would be recieved..But the big open-eyed WOW was more than I could have hoped for.

Steggles the Stegosaurus

KarinaJean — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:27:11 +0000

We have had many friends with new baby arrivals in the last month. I used to make baby blankets as gifts. That was before I became a mama and before we moved to hot humid queensland. So when second cousin Baby Boy O, and next-door Baby Boy S arrived I felt the need to create something more personal, fun and climate-appropriate than a blanket (please note…my blankets were run of the mill blankets, not nifty blankets-that fold-up-into-a-carrybag/cushion like Lady S made for Jonah. That blanket rocked and the idea was so superb that it has travelled all the way to israel).

So I designed Steggles the Stegosaurus – nice and plush and squishy with plenty of ribbony bits for the little ones to suck on. He is just darling.