Stitchcraft Galore!
I’ve been designing and crafting plushies and stuffed animals since I was six years old, when my Grandma Eloise taught me how to make a running stitch. In the years following, I’ve taught myself to pattern, embroider, and use a sewing machine! I’ve made everything from huge stuffed animals to tiny cloth dolls, and even sold some of my work! Enjoy the gallery!
Cyprus the Walking Tree (2016)
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Cyprus is a 17" cloth doll with a polar fleece base. She's entirely handsewn! When I made her, I had never used a sewing machine before.
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I made her pattern with a small body and long, oblong legs to give her a hulking form.
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She has a sturdy wire and plastic spine that supports the weight of her head and full yarn hair.
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He face embroidery is based on my own pen drawings and stitched onto watercolor canvas before being attached to the head.
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This doll was an experiment in texture, featuring moss made with lace and frayed flannel, lichen and oakleaves in felt, and vines in spandex, rickrack, and embroidery floss.
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She’s covered with mismatched buttons and cotton flowers underneath a tied harness.
The Great Axolotl Sale of 2019
In my third year of working with WWU QueerCon, I decided to return as an artist table as well as being the creative director. Along with selling embroidered patches, beaded accessories, and buttons, I designed a pattern the make miniature axolotl plushies. And i made a BOATLOAD of them! I made about 26 in total, both in the black and red color scheme and the classic pink. I set their price at $20 and every one sold!
The Baby Pink Velociraptor
In 2015, when I got may hands on a huge pink polar fleece remnant, I immediately started looking up pictures of Deinonychus anatomy. I ended up with several sketches of velociraptors, seeing as their size seemed more achievable. I built my pattern around these specific measurements, trying aim for ‘Jurassic Park’ level realism. and then I broke out the pink fabric and make this 55” long monstrosity!
The Bedside Dragon
Later that year, after a short lesson from my mom on running her old sewing machine, I decided to make another big reptile. I broke out the poster paper and drew a (slightly) smaller pattern than the velociraptor, this time to build a whimsical dragon. The actual sewing of the project took longer than expected as I learned how the run the machine, but I ended up with this beautiful 40” beast that can curl up very sweetly on a bed!
