After Rachel declared that she would indeed make the Enormous Pikachu and began to sew, Sophie decided she would also make a Pokémon toy. Thankfully, she chose something a little smaller than Rachel's idea. Sophie has less sewing stamina than Rachel, and I think anything bigger would have left her more defeated than empowered.
In the midst of all the sewing interest last year, both girls had made a small stuffed fox. I had seen a picture of one on the internet somewhere and it was easy enough to duplicate. It was a good place for the girls to start hand sewing because there was lots of repetitive running stitches and it was all made with felt.
Sophie decided that her latest creation would be an Eevee pillow of similar design to the fox. I had her draw a picture of what she wanted, and talk to her about how to deconstruct her ideas to a workable plan.
We went to Spotlight and she spent $10 of pocket money to buy the material and stuffing. Again, I helped to appliqué the facial features on, but Sophie did the rest of the sewing. Rachel showed her how to do the ladder stitch to close Eevee up after we stuffed her.
Not sure if I should have helped to guide more with the design so that Sophie would think of Eevee more 3D than 2D, but I was trying to let her have creative control. It's important to let kids figure it out on their own right? Sophie does love her Eevee, even if she isn't exactly what she had imagined to start with, and she's pretty proud that she sewed it all, given her limited sewing stamina.
Eevee is actually sewn with some scrap fabric from my cape too, as well as some scrap batting that I had lying around which happened to be the right cream that Sophie was after for her tail and neck ruff. We have loads of the brown fleece left over, so maybe there will be more soft toys in our future. Who knows!
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