Nyancat

A bit of a break from clothing, here is Nyancat from the famous viral video! This is one of my favourite things that I have made. I made it while suffering from insomnia in Japan, and stayed up for three days designing and handsewing it - my sewing machine there was incredibly cheap and failed me when it came to felt - plus it was too loud to use at night.

I am insanely proud of this because of how accurate it is to the original. Seriously, each of the poptart dots were carefully mapped out to match to the original. The end result is super cute and all!

Obviously, there is no pattern out there for something like this, so it was patterned from start to finish by yours truly. I used scrap paper and sellotape and was very happy to get the proportions right and everything :)

You can see the feet looking a bit weird and sticky-out. Next time I would cut little indents in the bottom rectangle so that they could go straight down, but I didn't realise that would be a problem until it was finished. It still stands up on it's own though, so yay for that!

In Summary

Insomnia can lead to being massively creative.

I'm a bit too much of a perfectionist at times

I now want to make a Nyancat bag and a Nyancat pillow (with a rainbow fleecey blanket attached...)

Patterning and making something entirely by yourself is incredibly rewarding!

I am really proud of this plushie

Next time I might make the base of the ears a bit wider. I didn't realise how much they'd shrink when the face was turned inside out.

Only a short post today. I'm running out of quality things to show off, so I'm going to have to get a move on with making new things to talk about!