Sewing aliens on a Sunday

Whooooo it's Sunday again.

Sewing Sunday.

A dear friend of mine, Suzie, is expecting her first baby pretty much any day now.

This week I have decided to make her little girl a doll.

The problem is that traditional dolls are kind of a bit lame.

So I'm going to make her an alien doll!

For this project I gathered up,

• 2 pieces of cute fabric (around 40x40 each)
• 2 sheets of felt (whatever colour takes your fancy)
• coloured thread
• big ass needle
• Polyester stuffing

As mentioned in past sewing projects, a sewing machine is pretty handy but you can

also sew by hand if you need to.

Okay so first step is to decide the shape of your extraterrestrial.

I went for your basic alien shape with 3 antennas.

Roughly draw it onto the back of your fabric with a pencil.

And I mean rough.

Trust me when I say that the wonkier your alien the better it will look.

Cut your shape.

Next step is to trace your alien out on to the back of your other chosen fabric.

Once you have cut both sides you can stitch the face on to the front

 and any other details you want to add.

I chose to stitch on a face, eyes, mouth,  felt buttons and a bunny tail.

Yeah. A bunny tail. It's my alien creation and I'll put whatever tail on it I like.

The reason I decided on felt buttons was that this is, after all, a gift for an infant.

If I know nothing else about babies it's that they love the taste of real buttons.

And quite frankly I don't wish to be held responsible for any child swallowing a foreign item.

Pin your 2 shapes together so the insides are facing outwards.

Now sew both pieces together leaving the legs open at the ends

Once this is done you can now turn your creature out the right way and stuff the hell out of it.

A tip; you can't stuff a toy too tightly.

The more the better.

No kid likes a floppy doll.

They are going to love and squeeze the shit out of that thing so make sure it's firm.

Now all that's left to do it stitch up the feet.

And it's done! You are now a toy master of non lame dolls!

Pat yourself on the back.

Ta daaaaa.

I can't wait to meet the baby girl that this doll is meant for.

She is going to have amazing parents that are way cooler than pretty much everyone else I know.

All I can say is that she is going to be one lucky chicken.