A sewing project + a new art crush

Been a little while! I was pretty proud of myself for updating roughly once a week (or at least 4 times a month) at the beginning of the year, but then softball season happened, and it's still happening. It's been pretty crazy for the past several weeks.

This weekend I'm going to my first baby shower.  I have to say that freaks me out, both because one of my best friends is going to be a father, and because I'm apparently of an age where my friends are becoming parents. I don't know how much awwww-ing I'm going to be able to do when the day comes... But nonetheless, I wanted to make something special. It was a bit of a challenge coming up with an idea, because most of the baby gifts I could think of were decorative, and they're not going to have a baby room right away.

I settled on a stuffed toy. A few years ago my boyfriend gave me this book for valentine's day after I swooned at its adorableness in Borders, and he also made one of the animals in it, which was about the greatest thing ever:

I used the same pattern because it's one of the largest ones in the book, but I modified it into a bunny:

I also looked up the artist of the pattern, and she's just FANTASTIC! Here are two of my favorites:

If you're into that sort of thing, she has a blog and an etsy shop, and definitely check out her Flickr sets, where all the little guys have adorable names that make them even better.