Feeling Crafty...

I'm guessing this is the start of nesting or maybe just my version of nesting but all I want to do right now is make things for our little man - crafty things!  I saw a mobile the other day that had birds on it and I thought, how wonderful would that be if I could make that with woodland creatures instead!  Then that had me on the hunt for a good felt pattern for owls, foxes, hedgies, and other cute creatures.  Well, I've only found an owl so far but I thought that'd be a good start.  Let's see if I can do this....:)

Here's the inspiration:

These cuties and their pattern came from Juicy Bits Blog and they looked simple enough to make....although, I'm not much of a sewer and this carpal tunnel has me a bit limited.

Here's my rendition:

Because this is going in the baby's room (and the fact that I couldn't find safety eyes at JoAnn or Michaels) their eyes are just sewn in rather than cute little buttons.  The blue guy is my second try and I'm definitely getting better and cleaner as I go!  I used Google to figure out the blanket stitch that you see around the outside (to fuse the two halves together) and sat and made them while DH tried to refinance the house:)

Pretty good for a first pass.  Now off to cut out 4 more or so and maybe a few small ones too. 

Next up, learning to crochet an amiguri doll!!