Suddenly Seymour

I am very pleased to introduce you to my new friend.

Name: Seymour
Date of Birth: 7/19/2010
Favorite Color: Periwinkle
Favorite Food: Ice Cream!!! (That's my favorite, too!  Weird!)
Favorite Hobby: Giving Hugs
Favorite Song: Mahna Mahna by The Muppets

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This is the story of how Seymour came to be...

I have seen these cute little fabric and felt monsters all over the place and I just love them.  I wanted to try to make one of my own.  So, I bought some felt and thought about it for a while and did nothing about it.  I always way over-think things!  ;-)

Yesterday I finally got brave and decided to try out making my own monster.  I tried to just freehand draw something but I was hating everything I came up with.  I ended up looking at pictures of monsters and picking out the things I liked the most and then I drew a boxy version of those things with a ruler.  After that I kind of rounded it out and made it cuter.  Then I started to make him.

Seymour was kind of my ginuea pig monster project.  I learned a lot from making him, but there are a lot of little mistakes in there, too.  I didn't take into account seam allowances and made his hands a little small.  I wanted them to be really small, but these are super duper small!  They were kind of hard to sew and didn't come out quite even but that's okay.  He's a monster!!

His ears are actually supposed to be pointed.  Well, technically they still are.  I couldn't get the points out when I turned him right-side out so he has square ears now.  Shh...don't tell.  ;-)

I made the hole a little too big for flipping and stuffing so it was a little hard to finish.  I really don't know how to hand sew much so my mom was nice enough to show me how to do that part. Now I know for next time.  Thanks, Mom!  I wouldn't have been able to finish it without you!  :-)

I'm actually very happy with my first attempt at making a monster.  I learned things that work and things that don't so when I decide to make a friend for Seymour I'll be ready!  I'm excited to try other stuffed animals now, too!

I love felt monsters!!!

Yep...this is where his name came from.

Don't you love Ellen Greene? I miss Pushing Daisies.  :-)