Premiere! Cute Elephant Softies^_^

 Finally, I finished my first softies, my own pattern design. Woohooo! I am so proud of myself. Especially since sewing is my long forgotten hobby. Last period of my sewing time was 15 years ago, that's before i drown into drawing and architecture. It started again last November after a good friend of mine passed me her old sewing machine.
It turned out making my imagination of softies design is not as easy as i thought. You may read my first summary here.
Started with simple conceptual sketch.

It took many redrawing pattern ...

and many failing elephant ...

and of course it took many hours. I have to juggling around between taking care of El, doing household work, and other works. But since I made my first prototype below, i just can't stop sewing. It's a new addiction^^. 

I collected pictures of the failing elephant to see the transformation, for my own record. You can see that one time i wanted to separate the cutting for the trunk to smooth out the shape. Another time i struggled to get fluffy shape of feet and round shape for body. At the end, I get to match the concept of elephant i once sketched out. Yaay! 

Several failing elephant didn't make it here. I ripped it off directly when it didn't come the way I wanted it to be -__-

I managed to get it a company, a sleeping Elephant. I looooveeee shocking pink ^^

Now we call them Mother and Baby Elephant. Great way to tell story to El that he'll going to have baby sister very soon :)