As Isobel is busy getting ready for a short visit back to Wiltshire, starting mid-week she's been busy trying to finish the latch-hook rug we wrote about earlier (our post on 08/08/2015 told you all about it). That's likely to be an objective to be completed AFTER her return, as well as getting on with the Foxy Family I wrote about last week. What with creating a hostess gift to take away with her - pictures of their family dog, whom Isobel used to look after when they went on holiday - and deciding what she's going to wear when she's away, time has been pretty scarce this last week.
(Alas, the little dog went to Doggy Heaven before we left Wiltshire, but Isobel came across some photos she took of Widget while she was staying with us one time. Two of them have been made into a collage, and Isobel intends to find a frame to put it into tomorrow).
Nevertheless, some progress has been made with the Foxy creatures that we will be introducing into our shop at www.Etsy.com/shop/COLDHAMCUDDLIES soon (but definitely only after Isobel has come back from her holiday). So there won't be a post from either of us next week, although Isobel might bring back some photographs of her trip away to share in a post with you sometime after she gets back. Meanwhile, here are some Foxy photos for you to be going on with.
In our last post, I showed you their heads and tails unstuffed, together with a selection of fabrics that might be used for their frocks.
Here are the Foxy bunch - as they now look:
They are bit closely packed together here, but they just fitted onto one of our side tables so Isobel decided to photograph them like this.
However, the more Isobel looks at the Yellow face on the left of this picture, the more she thinks she will not become a Coyote - as I mentioned might happen last week - but she will become a Fantasy Fox, because the plush fabric is definitely a yellow (and not a light brown - and Isobel thinks she might be able to create a nice story about her sometime in the future too).
The Grey Plush Head will definitely become a Girl Wolf, and the Chestnut one will obviously become a Fox. The Brown Chenille head will be the Coyote, and Isobel is particularly pleased with the way she looks - as to begin with, this head was viewed as an experiment. It's a fabric that is prone to fray, though, so all the seams have to be over sewn to preserve their integrity. Nevertheless, I think there will certainly be more Coyotes made with this material. They look more like the original, apparently!! (Or at least Isobel thinks so - but then she's never seen a real one I'm told!).
At the time of writing this post, the selection of fabric to go with each head looks like this:
(Alas, the little dog went to Doggy Heaven before we left Wiltshire, but Isobel came across some photos she took of Widget while she was staying with us one time. Two of them have been made into a collage, and Isobel intends to find a frame to put it into tomorrow).
Nevertheless, some progress has been made with the Foxy creatures that we will be introducing into our shop at www.Etsy.com/shop/COLDHAMCUDDLIES soon (but definitely only after Isobel has come back from her holiday). So there won't be a post from either of us next week, although Isobel might bring back some photographs of her trip away to share in a post with you sometime after she gets back. Meanwhile, here are some Foxy photos for you to be going on with.
In our last post, I showed you their heads and tails unstuffed, together with a selection of fabrics that might be used for their frocks.
Here are the Foxy bunch - as they now look:
They are bit closely packed together here, but they just fitted onto one of our side tables so Isobel decided to photograph them like this.
However, the more Isobel looks at the Yellow face on the left of this picture, the more she thinks she will not become a Coyote - as I mentioned might happen last week - but she will become a Fantasy Fox, because the plush fabric is definitely a yellow (and not a light brown - and Isobel thinks she might be able to create a nice story about her sometime in the future too).
The Grey Plush Head will definitely become a Girl Wolf, and the Chestnut one will obviously become a Fox. The Brown Chenille head will be the Coyote, and Isobel is particularly pleased with the way she looks - as to begin with, this head was viewed as an experiment. It's a fabric that is prone to fray, though, so all the seams have to be over sewn to preserve their integrity. Nevertheless, I think there will certainly be more Coyotes made with this material. They look more like the original, apparently!! (Or at least Isobel thinks so - but then she's never seen a real one I'm told!).
At the time of writing this post, the selection of fabric to go with each head looks like this:
On the other hand, Isobel may well change the Fantasy Fox and Coyote fabrics, so that the former has her frock made with the plain yellow material, and the Coyote is made with the green floral patterned one. She is also dithering between giving the Fox a purple frock, and giving the proposed Wolf the blue one, so that she can be matched with our Gentleman Wolf already in our shop, which can be seen by using this link -
https://www.etsy.com/listing/227439336/ooak-wolf-toy-cuddly-stuffed-animal?ref=shop_home_active_20
All will become clear once Isobel comes back from her travels. Meanwhile, I'll end this post for this week, by wishing all my American friends a belated Happy 4th of July - I'm told it's a great excuse for tremendous celebrations, but being a Beaver Lamb Bear, they doesn't mean as much to me as they will do to you. Anyway, I just hope you all had a great time - and look forward to seeing you all again soon.
Your Friend - Cy Bear.
