Thought it was time I made an amigurumi for myself and Princess Leia Organa it was! It does appear Princess Leia is a little chubby (or maybe curvy?) but I think she’s cute like that. I was quite looking forward to making her because of her hair.

Did some research on amigurumi hair and I adapted the hair tutorial from Geek Central Station but instead of embroidery thread, I used roving wool. I originally wanted to use the roving wool idea for Obi Wan’s hair but then realised I didn’t have white wool. I didn’t really photograph the process so I will try to describe how I made her hair.

Basically grabbed some roving wool - with the sewing machine sewed a line down the middle to create her hair parting. On the underside of her wig I applied a thin line of PVA glue on her parting, and pinned on the line of her parting on her head and left it alone for a few minutes for the glue to bond to her head. Still with the pins stuck on I added a little more glue to her undersides of her hair and using a hair tie, wrap her hair down the sides of her face - and yes it might appear I am killing her with my hair tie. This will hold the hair in place. After 15 minutes of “strangling” Princess Leia, remove the hair tie and braid both sides and twirl it into a bun - sew in place and leave alone overnight for the glue to completely dry. Remove pins in her head the next morning. Glue should dry clear.

Congratulations! You made made amigurumi hair! I haven’t tried this with short hair yet but I should think it’s just as easy and you can really do alot with roving wool for hair.

On another note, if you like my Princess Leia as much as I do, you can download a desktop wallpaper of her here.

Tags: star wars, Amigurumi, Princess Leia

The Sophia Carry-All is completed! It’s hard not to fall in love with the bag when you first see it on Amy Butler’s website. It has a great shape and something Audrey Hepburn-chic about it. This cute fabric is Bubble Bees Olive by Flutterby. It took me 2 full days and 2 half days to finish this.

After many weeks of prepation and sourcing of materials, my most challenging project to date is complete and not without a lot of frustration and abundant mutterings of swear words. It is my first time using a zipper foot, making piping and sewing in piping. For the record - I really suck at piping.

Along the way also pushing the limits my old Singer sewing machine - which really didn’t help the already frustrating situation. It really isn’t used to sewing many thick layers of interfaced fabrics together. And in demostrating it’s irritation, it stubbornly refuses to pick up bottom bobbin thread and or tangling itself and spitting out mini thread ball disasters.

I am glad I made it. It’s a pretty bag and I get to use it tomorrow! I will have to make another one for Dixie but after that... not again!

Tags: Amy Butler Sohpia Carry-All, Bubble Bees Olive, Flutterby , Bag