An advent calendar is a must!

pattern advent calendar

Yes, I know, Irma is still too little, to be excited about and advent calendar. She is only turning 2 in April and doesn’t understand the whole hustle around Christmas.

But that doesn’t matter, I love Christmas and now I have a good reason to have an advent calendar too.

Until I moved out, my mom put up an advent calendar with little bags, filled with little goodies,  every year. Without was no option and now Irma should get one too.

So I was sewing like crazy, to finish the advent calendar before December.

And here is my first self made advent calendar..

advent calendar

All figures are sewed double and in between I sewed in fleece, so the pockets are firmer.

The little pockets are made out of quilt. Therefor one side stays open, so you can put something in it.

Here you can find the pattern for the adventcalendar.

On the upper edgeI sewed in 3 loops, so you can pull trough the bar. So can hang the quilt on the wall.

Measurements for the advents calender

The idea for the houses I found on the website of ginihouse3

The idea for the reindeers I found here.

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A friend for tiger Tim..

pattern tiger

In the summer my nephew Edgar got an Angry Bird bath robe from me.

He really liked it, but he subtly let me know, that if I ever sewed something for him, a stuffed animal would be a great idea. For example I could make a friend for his tiger Tim and white tiger would fit very well.

So I sewed the little prince a white tiger for his 8th birthday and tiger Tim got a friend too.

It wasn’t that easy to sew the tiger though.

It started with finding plush with the right tiger print - you can mostly only find zebra print - and ended with the fact that I couldn’t find a pattern for the stuffed tiger.

Finally I found plush with tiger print at stoff 4 you and I made the pattern myself.

And I think it turned out kind of cute, even when the proportions are not exactly correct.

The most important thing is, that Edgar was super excited and even tiger Tim seems to get along very well with the “new one” too.

Tiger Tim and his new friend

For those, who want to sew the tiger, here is the pattern.

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