This new year started with a bang for Bailey's Bruins! After we made it through the holiday rush, I was contacted by my online friend/customer Doris about her new children's book she is going to have published next month. Well Doris has bought a few of my bears, bunnies and monkeys this past year and asked if I would make her a chicken to go along with the book...so I thought about it for a minute (maybe two) and agreed we'd make chickens!
So since it was going to be a child's toy I didn't want to use a generic pattern like you would use for home decorating...so I had to make my own....man am I glad I have my Grandma's talent to do this!
I had a few mornings of waking up and deciding in my mind how it was going to look...it needed to be kind of fat and have a nice tail. It needed drumstick legs and just the right face. I sat down to the drawing board and created chicken #1. It wasn't fat enough and its tail was a little too small...but it was a good start for never having made a chicken before!
So time to redo the pattern! And I give you chicken #2! You can see its a little rounder, but still a little too skinny! Almost there...Then I came up with chicken #3!! I think this one might be the right one! Now to cut it out from the fabric we chose and get it put together in time for the book coming out! :)
The fabric had arrived just in time! I cut it out and created the first of what will be many little red hens! I sent them off to Idaho and she loved them!
