These are making me smile and I hope they make you smile as well. As long as it's an animal etc, it's always adorable....

I have been seeing pincushion all over the place lately especially the turtle and not wanting to purchase anymore patterns, I decided to dive in and make my own.

I made this fat little bugger first after three or four trials and errors. His house seems to be a bit small for him hahahah....anyway,

I wanted a realistic face and I think I captured the turtle face pretty good. I made his shell and body as one piece and then made the cover for the shell seperate. I took a T-pin with a round loop and forced a huge plastic pearl on it and then wired some seed beads in the loop of the pin.

I rouged his cheeks with crayon and outlined his mouth with a black Identi-pen, two black/green seed beads for his eyes. In this model I made a seam on the bottom and it raise his head and I like that.

Has anyone made any of the turtle pins on the web.

Cute

How cute!

Then I decided to make another one with the shell not included with the body to see if I liked it better. I used the fabric from a little embroidered dress for the body. I then made the shell seperate.

The shell is just stuffed a bit and pinned on the turtle so far but I wanted you all to see it and give me an opinion.

I adjusted this pattern for a longer tail and tried to make the beak longer. I rounded the head a bit more on this one. I still need to adjust the shell, it is still a work in progress.

I didn't put a seam down the bottom like the first one and his head is therefore lower. I like the higher head better.

sew adorable!

Then on a second thought because there are so many patterns on the web and there is one that kinda looks like mine lol. I decided to dig all my promos out of the garbage and keep them for a while in case I want to make a pattern out of this little guy.

I also want to make an owl, an elephant and a few other cuties...these things take so much time. I have spent two entire days on these. Here is a pic of my mistakes and promos.....

Yeah, I like the first one better, his expression is priceless, kinda like a snapping turtle, ya know what I mean? The second one looks more laid back and cartooney. Looks like you had a ball making thm.

Yeh I like the snapper better too. It's the same pattern but they never come out the same. I still want to make more. I have so many scraps that would look so good.

these are adorable.... your very clever... sometimes it's fun to make it up yourself!!!

Your pincushions are adorable. :thumbup: