Baby Niffler - Pumpernickel

It has been a while, but there has finally been a new addition to the magical creatures residing in my home. The baby niffler Pumpernickel has made his first appearance and is now playfully making himself at home with his brothers Persimmon and Pistachio. I'm now in more danger then ever of losing my bright and shinies to these mischievous but adorable little critters.

As my first two nifflers were on all fours, I decided to make the remaining two in a slightly different body shape. So to create this baby niffler I started with a basic pattern shape that was for a sitting critter. This then had to be heavily altered, allowing for a longer tail, a wider head, a pouch, the hands and feet, and the altered snout. I then had to allow for Pumpernickel's unique markings.

This little sitting niffler turned out to be trickier to sew together then his brothers on all fours, especially when it came to attaching the little feet to the legs. The hands and feet themselves were just as fiddly as the first two nifflers I made, and also just like the first two nifflers, this niffler has little magnets sewn into the hands.

To finish his look, Pumpernickel was given blue safety eyes. The hands and feet for this niffler are stuffed, along with his snout, head and tail just to give definition to those areas, however the majority of the body is filled with plastic pellets to give him a little more weight and flexibility.

This little niffler turned out to measure about 9cm tall and 10.5cm from tail to toe, allowing him to fit in comfortably with his brothers without looking too big or too small. I think he turned out super cute and hope to one day soon complete my baby niffler set with Pumpkin.

Pocket God & Goddess Dolls

Another quick and simple project this week. Similar to my pocket witch dolls, these are my pocket god and goddess dolls. These two totem figures are only 6.5cm tall and because I liked how this floral material turned out for the witch dolls, I decided to uses that same material again for these pocket dolls. These were again fast to sew together and a little fiddly to turn and stuff.

I love the simple design of these pocket dolls, the standard type shape for the male figure and the robust round body for the female figure. The pattern for these little god and goddess pocket dolls came directly from a set of cookie cutters I own. I simply traced the shape of these cookie cutters onto fabric, sewed, stuffed, and was done. These are so cute and I'm tempted to blow up the shape to a larger size to make cushions.

Harry Potter Wand Bookmarks Framed Set

A few months back I made these colourful iron bead wizarding wand bookmarks. These were for the characters of Harry, Ron and Hermione, Dumbledore, Voldemort and Bellatrix, and Neville, Luna and Fleur. As I already have quite a few bookmarks I found I wasn't really using these and they were just left in a sad little pile on my desk. I wanted to do something fun with these and thought they would look cute displayed somehow and this is what I can up with.

I had this old picture frame that I think used to be gold, but it was not looking great, so I gave it new life with a few coats of white paint. After that was done and sealed I gave it a white backing board, as I wanted a nice clean looking frame for these colourful wands, and added the wands. I originally thought to add names under the wands, but once I had the wands placed I decided to leave the names off as it might have looked too cluttered.

This is the finished look hanging on the wall, which I am very pleased with. It's a nice and simple alternative to having a set of real full sized wizarding wands hanging on your wall, especially if you don't have the space, or funds, for that. I have patterns for each wand available if your interested in making a set of your own, either to display as I have, to use as bookmarks, or for any other purpose you desire. Click to find patterns for Harry, Ron and Hermione, Dumbledore, Voldemort and Bellatrix, and Neville, Luna and Fleur

Pocket Witch Dolls

Just a quick little something, Halloween inspired, are these pocket sized witch dolls or totems. These little witches are very small, the standing witch measuring 7cm tall and the witch on broom is 5cm tall. This miniature size made these quick to hand-sew but very very tricky when it came to turning the sewn fabric inside-out, or right-side-out. Stuffing these was also quite fiddly.

For these pocket witch dolls I decided to use a floral pattern, keeping the witches more abstract in design. As it is technically Spring here in Australia where I live, I liked the idea of softer colours for these little dolls as opposed to the traditional witchy colours of orange, green, purple or black. The actual design or pattern for these comes straight from a couple of witch cookie cutters I own, only I shrank the image to making these smaller then the original size.

Mini Hanky Pouches

These sweet little pouches were actually made from a paper printable. I have printed onto fabric a couple of times before with some success, seen HERE and HERE. So I decided to print these very pretty vintage inspired hanky designs onto fabric also. This was done by taping the fabric to a piece of paper before putting it through the printer in order to give the fabric more stability. Unfortunately there was one hanky design that misprinted along the top edge. So when sewing these pouches together by hand, as I do with everything I sew, I instead decided to use velcro to complete that pouch.

For the other two pouches I used a waxed cord to make the drawstrings. These pouches are only small, with the two drawstring pouches measuring about 12cm by 12cm, and the velcro pouch measuring about 12cm by 10cm. Originally these paper hankies were designed to be letter writing sheets for guest to leave messages on, then they could be hung up, bunting style, as decoration for that celebration as an alternative to a guestbook. However I'm sure there are many creative ways this Freebie can be used. Download from the Eat Drink Chic blog HERE FREE.

Faery Rag Doll #7

It's been a about a year since I made one of my faery rag dolls, but I recently had the desire to make another and so I did. This new beautiful redhead faery doll has found a home next to my brunette faery doll on my bookshelf amongst some of my favourite books.

This lovely faery was made in the same way as my previous faery dolls, and I'm finding the more of these I make the faster I am getting at making these. This is a good thing because I plan on making more of these and as a hand-sewer, sewing anything by hand takes a long time.

As with all my other faery dolls, this faery has a blanket stitched fringe, embroidered ears and black safety eyes. I just adore her bright red hair with her blue flowered dress, and the floral wings are the same material used for my previous brunette faery rag doll.

The full height of these dolls are about 24cm from head to toe and the full wingspan is about 16cm. All my faery dolls have reinforced wings that allow them to hold up one their own without flopping over but are still soft enough to allow them to be squashed and played with by little hands.

Luna Lovegood Dirigible Plum Earrings (iron beads)

These Luna Lovegood Dirigible Plum earrings, more commonly referred to as Luna's Radish earrings, are made from iron beads, also known as perler, hama and pyssla beads. The 3D red earrings design above was created from a pattern by Karen Kavett, the flat orange earrings were created by slightly changing the same pattern.

These earrings are about 4.5cm in height, making these a statement piece, especially the red 3D earrings. They are super cute to wear and very simple to make. The pattern and instructions to make these can be found HERE on Karen Kavett's youtube channel, along with a few other free Harry Potter iron bead designs.