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If you love soft toys and would like to make your own at home, this is the site for you. Most of the Funky Friends can be made in an uninterupted day.
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Welcome to the Funky Friends Factory blog
Hi, I'm Pauline.
I believe that toy-making should be
SIMPLE and FUN for everyone ~
so anyone can give it a go!
Here you will be able to keep up to date with the latest happenings at the 'factory'...
I’m so excited to show off the brand new Funky Friends Factory toy making KITS!
Korina of Korina’s Kreations has agreed to join me as the OFFICIAL Funky Friends Factory KIT MAKER! She is now coming over once a week to ‘play with fabric’ in the Funky Friends Factory shop with me!
I have been playing around with the Dilby Duckling pattern for a little while now as I wanted to be able to make him out of non-stretch fabric. There’s no need to be concerned – he’s still Dilby Duckling as we all know him, only a little bit bigger, a little simpler and…
You might think that I ONLY love to SEW toys…. but when I can’t get near my sewing machine,
So it’s NOT THAT strange that when I was first thinking about my
Izzy INSOMNIAC Teddy Bear pattern design, I wanted to make a KNITTING PATTERN for Izzy’s sleepy sheep. I thought it would be FUN for me to be able to knit some sheep while I was up with insomnia in the middle of the night – AND way less noisy than my sewing machine!!!
BUT, because I know that some people cannot knit, I designed her a cute sewn sheep instead. I was going to leave it like that, BUT then,
Hi, It’s me, Jo again….
Since I became a part of the team at the Funky Friends Factory, I have been sewing my way through the Funky Friends Factory patterns so I know what it is like to sew EACH one.
So far I have tried – Silly Scrap Snake , Plattie the Platypus, and Cheeky Chook.
I’m so excited to make another Funky Friend! This time I will try to sew Heather HIPPO.
I decided on some pink and yellow FLOWERY fabric with bright yellow for my contrasting fabric – a nice bright cheerful combination, don’t you think?
I quickly sewed the front and the back body pieces together, followed by the front and back legs to the tummy piece. After that I sew the tail and turned it right sides out. I put some stuffing in the tail and I pinned it to the back body pieces.
I seem to have more and more sleepless nights as I get older, BUT I get some of the BEST ideas for patterns in the middle of the night so I shouldn’t complain about insomnia!
I am so excited to introduce my newest Funky Friend – Izzy INSOMNIAC and her friend Sleepy SHEEPIE.
