Kitty & the city- Back Tack ends
Here is Samantha, a real city kitty who is my Back Tack offering for Allison.
I tried to be as pure as possible about the Back Tack project... I loved its premise. Same patterns, 5 buttons, recipient's monogram, black & white plus one other colour and the interesting part... how each of us would interpret all of this and make a softie. And with all this everyone has created something different. Love it!
So I chose the wee pointy kitty... a pattern I had been eyeing off but for all the other projects had never attempted. I really like the pointy bits! The trial kitty was made out of some cotton gingham... and believe the warning this is not an easy creature to turn inside out! Samantha was made with white herringbone fabric that I iron-on transferred my design onto. Did you know that this iron-on stuff makes fabric feel & act like vinyl?! AAArgh! I didn't think about it... but turning a wee vinyl pointy kitty inside out is for crazy people! It took me over 1 and a half hours! And in the end I had to give up on the tail... sorry Allison she has a stumpy tail!
The reason she is called Samantha is because I was pondering who on this earth would wear white vinyl? It would have to be Samantha from "Sex & the city"! Allison, she is only young, so there may be hope to reform her... but I had to give her that slightly bling button around her neck in case she wishes to live up to her name sake!
I also made up some other offerings for Allison to hopefully distract her from Samantha's tail...
...some matching extra bits:
...and there are some other fun things for Allison & Tilly that they will discover!
Looking forward to seeing the gallery of all the other creations and to not lying awake at 1am wondering if my softie was good enough! T
I tried to be as pure as possible about the Back Tack project... I loved its premise. Same patterns, 5 buttons, recipient's monogram, black & white plus one other colour and the interesting part... how each of us would interpret all of this and make a softie. And with all this everyone has created something different. Love it!
So I chose the wee pointy kitty... a pattern I had been eyeing off but for all the other projects had never attempted. I really like the pointy bits! The trial kitty was made out of some cotton gingham... and believe the warning this is not an easy creature to turn inside out! Samantha was made with white herringbone fabric that I iron-on transferred my design onto. Did you know that this iron-on stuff makes fabric feel & act like vinyl?! AAArgh! I didn't think about it... but turning a wee vinyl pointy kitty inside out is for crazy people! It took me over 1 and a half hours! And in the end I had to give up on the tail... sorry Allison she has a stumpy tail!
The reason she is called Samantha is because I was pondering who on this earth would wear white vinyl? It would have to be Samantha from "Sex & the city"! Allison, she is only young, so there may be hope to reform her... but I had to give her that slightly bling button around her neck in case she wishes to live up to her name sake!
I also made up some other offerings for Allison to hopefully distract her from Samantha's tail...
...some matching extra bits:
...and there are some other fun things for Allison & Tilly that they will discover!
Looking forward to seeing the gallery of all the other creations and to not lying awake at 1am wondering if my softie was good enough! T
posted by Sweet Treat at 2:17 pm
3 Comments:
Glad I wasn't the only one having softie-anxiety. But looking at yours, I cannot imagine why you did.
Very sweet!
Very cute kitty, what a nightmare it can be sometimes - I felt your pain when you were turning her inside out!
I love her expression
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