I've gone officially baby crafts crazy. I admit. My head is buzzing with ideas of crafts to do for the kid. And the kid we are speaking about is -4 months old. But I cannot stop my brain, it's like it's gone on warp drive.
On the same time I feel very proud of my creativity and especially of the fact that all my craft ideas so far have not required bought material. Most things I have done, like the Socktopus, are made of stuff we already happened to have. This one I made from old T-shirts and socks. Hence the name Socktopus. And the wadding is from an old pillow.
I narrowed the socks a bit with a serger so I could remove the bad looking areas from the heels of the socks. I sewed on one of the head parts the eyes and the mouth. Then I combined the pieces for the Socktopus head. I attached the pre wadded legs to the head and the bottom piece. I turned the right side out and filled it with wadding.
I LOVE the Socktopus, it's so huggable, soft, cute and so useless. Maybe I'll keep it myself.
ps. Just realized that octo in the word octopus most likely means eight. Which makes me notice that I should have had eight sock legs for the Socktopus instead of six. In Finnish the octopus is freely translated as "ink fish", so I only noticed this while writing the post. But... who cares!
ps. Just realized that octo in the word octopus most likely means eight. Which makes me notice that I should have had eight sock legs for the Socktopus instead of six. In Finnish the octopus is freely translated as "ink fish", so I only noticed this while writing the post. But... who cares!
pps. The voting for the most amazing dollhouse project is open till Sunday the 12th of May.
(It is not necessary for you to vote me)
It's so cute. I love the name Socktopus. :)
ReplyDeleteI thought I was so clever when I figured out the name, but according to google I wasn't the first one to innovate that :)
DeleteYou might think it's useless, but I bet it'll provide hours of entertainment for your little one (no matter how many legs it has).
ReplyDeleteVoted for you at the undersized contest earlier today!
Thank you for the vote! I hope the kid will enjoy the socktopus and cover it in drool :D
DeleteHe's so cute!! Look mommy, there's a squid in my bed! And Octopuses may have eight legs, but this is a soctopus and they have six. So there. Love him.
ReplyDeleteThanks for pointing that out, this is an anatomically correct socktopus :D
DeleteThank you Alana!