Island Batik Ambassador's Funky Friends Factory Challenge

This month the Island Batik Ambassadors were challenged to make some fun stuffed animals from Funky Friends Factory.  I have made a few of their patterns before and they are always fun and I always learn a lot.  This year I chose to make Chrissy Camel.  My youngest son loves stuffed animals and I knew the camel would end up in his collection so I asked him which color he wanted the camel to be and he decided on purple.

This pattern had a lot of pieces, but once the sewing started it with my favorite Schmetz Microtex Needles he went together quickly.  I started by ironing my fabric with my Oliso iron.  It sure does a great job steaming out wrinkles.  There are pictures of what to do on the Funky Friends Factory website which were really helpful!  I of course sewed him together with my favorite Aurifil thread.

Putting the bottom hoof on.  It was a lot of pins, but went together more easily than I expected.  I stuffed him with Hobbs polyfil and it worked wonderfully.  I'm always surprised how much stuffing actually goes inside a stuffed animal!

I couldn't find my box of embroidery floss to make his tail.  However, I have a ton of rick rack and happened to have the perfect purple.  It's funny because I bought this rick rack on the way back from Paducah and it was so old it only cost 38 cents a yard!

My flowers are in full bloom in my yard so I decided it was the perfect place to photograph my camel which my son has dubbed Caramello.  He started out by checking out some salvia, but it wasn't purple enough for him.

Next up were the iris.  Two beautiful purples to choose from.

And finally into my son's arms.  He sure likes him!  It made all the effort worth it.

I hope you get to quilt today!

Suzy