The Friday project unveiled!

Hi y'all!
Well did you have a good old guess at what yesterday's project was from my iphone pic? Yvette guessed an owl, which was a good guess seeing as I love owls, but I've already made Peabody an owl so no. It was..... a Mr Hedgehog taggie!
I got the idea after buying my pinking shears to make a small felt Hedgehog for Peabody and I was thinking what else I could make using the pinking shears (it turns out it's addictive to cut things in a zig zag. Who knew?) I drew out this pattern at work one night and decided to make it into a taggie (a toy with tags of ribbon for baby to hold on to) cos that sounded pretty cool. And I have about a trillion different ribbons so it was going to be a good way to use some of them!
Initially I was going to make him all out of felt, but then when I looked through my fabric collection I realised if I make everything out of felt there will be no use for the stash of pretty fabrics I've been hoarding for a rainy day {wink!}. So I gathered some brown and aqua fabrics & ribbons and set to work! I was on a roll yesterday til I broke my sewing machine needle. D'oh! So I used last night to hand sew the eyeballs on and his nose on and sew some eyebrows (cos what Hedgehog doesn't have eyebrows, honestly...) and then this morning I found a spare sewing machine needle and I finished him off {high five!} I am so proud of how he turned out!! I just love him and I hope Peabody does too! And I'm so proud cos I thought of it all on my own and drew the pattern and it actually turned out exactly as I wanted {happy dance!}
So here is all the sewing I've done for Peabody, lovingly arranged in the lined basket Mum made using some beautiful bird-nest fabric I bought at Spotlight and a basket we got as a food hamper for our Engagement (hooray, recycling!) Thanks Mum!
So hooray, another one of my "Maternity Leave Projects" out of the way! Now I just have to scrap about 40 pages before Peabody is born. LOL!!
:) C