Planning and Design

My friend for whom I made whale shark bags for himself and his older son has a younger son whose birthday is 6 months later, but I couldn’t bring myself to make yet another whale shark bag so decided to make a plushie instead. I chose the cutest pattern on Etsy and I might have sized it up a bit (can’t rmb…). In order to make it match the whale shark bags I used the leftover fabric and googly eyes, but wanted something fun for the stomach so used some leftover fabric from the Captain Hedgehog quilt I made.

Materials

• Pattern
  • Whale Plushie (Etsy)
• Fabric
  • Leftover Plain Slub Denim Fabric Dark 145 cm (Spotlight)
  • Leftover Imagine Shooting White (Riley Blake)
• Eyes:
  • Arbee Sew On Joggle Eyes

Construction

I used By Annie’s Soft and Stable as an interfacing layer of sorts because I thought it would give the silhouette a nice smooth finish. It did the trick but it was fairly difficult to sew, especially around the tail. You can actually see the stitches a bit 😅

The pattern was straightforward and I only had issues due to adding the Soft and Stable. I love how the tail curves up on its own 😁

Reflections

So younger son wasn’t that enthused about it but older son was haha. I think if I were to make it again I would use a white corduroy for the stomach instead and a soft fleece for the top ❤️

Things I learnt:

• I don’t particularly enjoy making plushies 😅

Categories: Sewing

Tagged as: Benevolent Aunt Stuff Plushies

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