Taggie Elephant

Most of my sewing end up as gifts.  My love language is time and that is how I share my love to the people in my life.  So I usually make them a gift and or spend time with them.  A friend of mine was having a little baby but we didn't know the sex so I had to make a gender neutral gift.  Her nursery theme was elephants. 

I didn't use a template. 

• What I did was use a round plate for the body and traced it on to the fabric and then I did my best on making a trunk. 
• I used a button for the eyes and then I traced a small bowl on to the fabric for an ear and cut about an inch off so that I can get an ear look. 
• I used brown ribbon to make the taggie feet. 
• First I hand sewed the ear to the body.  I left a little opening to stuff it so the ear can stand out from the rest of the body since I was using the same fabric for the whole thing.
• Sew the body together inside out.
• Then I stuffed it and put a small piece of cardboard between the body and trunk to keep it from hanging. 
• Now you can completely sew it.

The hardest part about making this was deciding what shape I wanted the elephant.  I decided I wanted something more abstract but child like.  This circle shape elephant really resembles a childs attempt to draw an elephant.