20+ years and still loved!

All packaged up and ready for gift giving!!!!

It was over 20 plus years ago when I happened across a pattern to make some cute decorative clowns... I think it was a Simplicity pattern.

I found the clowns to be so cute I made tons of them for friends and family.

Back in April, one of the recipients of a clown, told me someone very special to her was having a baby and oh how she wished I would make a clown for her because she wanted to give her something unique for the baby...

As I've mentioned before, I never learned how to spell "no", and so of course I said yes... she told me the baby wasn't due until the end of August... of course, as usual, I procrastinated for quite some time... the baby was born August 26...

But alas, I completed it more or less on time (my friend wasn't in a hurry she told me) and my friend picked it up this past week... she was delighted...

I didn't have the whole pattern, over the years, many parts of it got lost, but I did my best to recreate it as best I could... but I also remembered back to when I had made the originals, and remember that I had hated how the hair was done.... so I changed it and made it much much more full...



I also made several other changes to make it more baby friendly, rather than just an ornament... so button eyes were replaced with hand embroidery just like the rest of the face... and buttons were not used on the front, pom poms were substituted instead.

After finishing it, I can't believe I made so many of them years ago... and while I have lots of patience for a lot of needleworks, I don't think I'd have as much patience with making that many clowns now, they are a bit fiddly....

I sure hope the recipient likes it! What do you think??


Anyway, just thought I'd share the completed product and give everyone something to smile about!!!

Hugs...