A little toy making

I have spent my afternoon relaxing whilst sewing furiously. Lets just say, the two don't really go hand in hand!  But I must say I am very happy to have yet another UFP which has been bugging me, finished and out of the way.

Meet Mr Lion.  He is made from a large yellow checked remnant of fabric, and his tail is a gold cord that has been kicking around in with my ribbons for forever.  The same goes for the eyes (they were originally from my mothers sewing box.)  Mr Lion has been looking very sad for the past few months, as I hadn't gotten around to sewing on his hair or face (much like Aslan from, The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe, after he has his mane cruelly shaved off.) Now much happier and very much more lion like, with a big bushy beard!

This is Miss Elephant, which I completed a while ago.  Miss Elephant is made from an old pair of grey cord trousers, a fancy print mans shirt, a piece of denim cord, hand crochet flowers in denim blue acrylic yarn and small and very old lace flower decorations, which have both been sewn onto felt and then blanket stitched onto the elephant.  I hope Mr Lion and Miss Elephant can be good friends and won't argue.

This is the pattern book I was working from for both toys.  It was published back in 1976, just look at those fabrics!  My mother originally made us the lion, pig, elephant and frog from this book, when we were very small.  I like that it still has the price sticker attached; 95p from Woolworths!