Robot Steve!

I am a pretty bad blogger, I would like to say that it is because I am have been so busy being all arty farty sorting through fabrics, and sketching up ideas of all the amazing ideas in my head. But that would be a lie. In fact, I have spent way too much time watching TV series which are probably too shameful to admit...

I have, however, created something completely in my own head which was, for myself, not a bad attempt without using a pattern. I could explain how I did it, but I don't really know how I did it. I like to practice with the idea in the back of my head "I can do that". Generally it works, if it doesn't, I just pack it in. Try it sometime... you might surprise yourself.

NB. I have also attempted to sew a dress using a pattern from another dress I owned and didn't really like the length of- this has somewhat worked... it looks like a dress but at this stage I cannot be bothered using the attitude "I can do that" with the details of a nice hem so I will just leave it at that for now.

VALENTINES DAY

Meet Steve. The name given to a rather fat robot that I (yes, in my own head) created. I made this for my partner on Valentines Day. Some might say "pathetic" but I really wanted to make a robot and give it to someone so I decided he would be the perfect guinea pig for it.

aka Steve

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Steve only took me about 2 days to do which is a pretty good effort! I managed to whip up the body pretty quickly once I cut out all the bits and pieces on the sewing machine, and even sewed on the details on his front chest with a machine as neat as I could.


















Some of it had to be done by hand such as a little bit on the lower chest for the gauge and the face (mouth and to sew on buttons- some machines do buttons, but find its less fuss doing them by hand). I also embroidered on my name on the bottom :)

As I said earlier, I didn't use a pattern, just made it up so you can sort of do the same thing and just play around with it. I did however try to draw it as a 3D image to begin with to work out where the seams would be and the shapes I had to cut out to create the whole piece. This does help a lot. If you look closely it is just squares and rectangles all pieced together with the arms and legs sewn into the body seams then just turned inside out. Obviously you have to leave an opening for the stuffing and then sew the final gap with a hand whip stitch.

Square and rectangle shapes which make up the body. Arms and legs are just two rectangle pieces sewn together and then stuffed.

Arm sewn into the shoulder seam of Steve (Make sure you do it with the body inside out to get the neat finish with no stitch showing).

Legs sewn into the bottom body seam- small gap left to turn body right side out.

Steve is pretty easy to make and you can make it as complicated as you like with the design. All you really need to do is cut out some squares and rectangles to create a 3D shape. I always think that looking at other soft toys you can work out how they put it all together. That's pretty much how I came about with the theory "I can do that"!

Enjoy!