Sheep at the Window

In the jungle, the mighty jungle…

The lion sleeps tonight…

or not, and Bunny looks pretty nervous about it.

We went on a very short vacation this weekend, and instead of packing books (well ok, I did pack one book..), I took a small box with needles and thread, and all my small leftovers of fleece fabric, and I made these 2 puppets. The lion is for Ez, the bunny will join some more puppets that I plan to make and will be gifted to Yael’s baby (who is due any day now, so I better hurry).

They were lots of fun to make – I didn’t use any pattern, and didn’t even really plan what I was going to make – I just started cutting and stitching and let the characters emerge by themselves.

So far both puppets look like they were made by different people – so my goal to myself for this week is to try and develop some charactaristic features to make the dolls recognizable.

Inspiration for characteristic features:

Hillary’s patchwork set

Rosa’s dolls

Moopy and Me’s rabbits and kittens

And there are, of course, many more of them online..