Happy Plush Plush

Bunny Photographer

2011-08-31T20:13:00.006Z

This is a special bunny plush made for Niclas. I took a WIP picture just for fun too.
Its made with fleece, wool tweed, felt and cotton jeans.

Lrrr Plushie

2011-03-28T07:29:00.003Z

This is the last commissioned plushie I made before heading off to Denmark.

I don't usually make copyrighted cartoon characters but I made this for someone who actually works on Futurama. Anyway I decided to make Lrrr since he doesn't get as much love as Bender (who is also great).

This was made with a green wool fabric and felt. I am not currently taking commissions for plushies.

Flower Faerie

2011-02-20T20:48:00.004Z

This was done on commission for a friend, but it is based on a design that you can see on my art blog. The eyes were a bit of a challenge as I haven't made them like this before, but I think they turned out ok.

Thank you to Ciaran too who took the pictures below

Link-pops

2011-01-22T13:59:00.006Z

I made a little Link plushie :)

Not sure if I will sell him, if anyone is interested he's 40E + shipping.
If you want him let me know.

He's all felt and some stuffing.

The King plushie

2011-01-08T13:37:00.004Z

This is a cross post from my art blog where I started posting about the king design first.
I was looking forward to making him and I'm pleased with how he turned out. He's made from felt and some really soft red material thats a bit like velvet.
He's for sale now in my etsy and dawanda shops.

Purple Lady Plush

2011-01-02T14:51:00.003Z

A purply plush, a commission for Christmas. All felt with a removable hat.

You cant really see it here but she has doc martins on, so there is flowers and yellow stitching on her boots to match them to real ones.

Spock Notch

2010-12-12T13:23:00.003Z

This is a Spock plush that I made for a commission. I enjoyed making this one, and I like the way it turned out.

Made from felt and fleece.

Diamonds

2010-12-09T11:54:00.003Z

So here is somemore plushie decorations I've made for christmas. I used custom printed fabric of my own design from Spoonflower. (You can order some here if you like it). Bringing a bit of bling to christmas.

I'm selling these decorations along with others at the Crafty Market in Dublin on sat 11th, and also online at my etsy and dawanda shops. Cheers!

Slacker Cats

2010-12-02T16:24:00.003Z

This is a commission I finished recently. The plushies are based off of two cartoon characters.
Made from fleece, felt and stuffed with polyester stuffing.

Little Children Christmas Decorations

2010-11-24T16:41:00.004Z

I made a few children Christmas decorations, they are all hand-sewn and all unique.

Check them out, along with more pictures in my siopa (shop for all the non-Irish): my Etsy one and my Dawanda one. *jingle of christmas*

Snowflakes

2010-11-18T21:34:00.004Z

I got some custom made fabric from Spoonflower with watercoloured snowflakes. I made them up into some plush christmas decorations.

Theres a big snowflake on one side and patterened small ones on the other. The fabric with the small snowflakes is available in my Spoonflower shop too. I really like how the watercolour look of the design came through on the fabric.

Available now in my dawanda and etsy shops :) christmassssy

Spoonflower Fabric

2010-11-16T15:49:00.004Z

I've made a couple of my fabric designs available for purchase at Spoonflower. Its a great website that makes up whatever fabric you design. There is a lot of great fabric desgined by different people there.
I have a few more designs that I'll make available once the swatches have arrived and I can double check the colours.

Here's what I have available now:

Yellow Ele

2010-10-09T15:51:00.007Z

This is a baby yellow elephant who is just a bit sleepy. Lucky enough it has its own blanket to keep warm.

The ele is made from fleece and cotton fabric patterned with bees and cats. Its a really cute fabric, as is the duck fabric on the little blanket.

SOLD

Craft Market!

2010-10-02T21:25:00.002Z

I am taking part in the Crafty Market on Sunday 2nd Oct!

I will be selling plushies and postcards and other odds and ends, so come by and say hello if your about.

The place is Shebeen Chic, at the bottom of George's street, near the George's Street Arcade. Its open from 1pm to 6.30pm.

Red Lorry

2010-09-26T20:10:00.005Z

Decided to make a bigish red lorry (19x13x16 cm). Its mostly felt with some nice traffic patterned material on the side and red gingham on the bottom. I used some clear PVC for the window so its sort of looks like glass. The number plate on the back reads HPP 2010 (happy plush plush).

It was a bit of an experiment but I think it turned out pretty charming. Its up now on in my etsy and dawanda shop.

Thanks to Ciaran for the help with the photos.

Marnie Plush Portrait

2010-07-26T19:04:00.005Z

This was a commish that I did recently. I based the plushie off of a photo of the lady in question. She has a bag that can be taken on or off (bottom photo) and she has a ponytail too.

Felt for pretty much everything. I really like that olive green felt.

New Bunny Aceos

2010-06-12T19:02:00.006Z

Cross post from my art blog. I've made some ACEOs and I'm selling them in my shop.

Yellow Lemon Plush

2010-05-20T21:41:00.005Z

This is a plushie I made that is a character from an animated short that I made called Colour Contamination. You can see the character peeking out in the poster here:

It's a while since I've made the film (2008!) but I still had the desire to make this design into a plushie. I think it turned out pretty faithful.

Commissioned Plush

2010-04-19T19:12:00.007Z

I had a few commissions for plushies recently. One was a custom plushie made for a girl I work with called Estrela. I made a plushie version of the character design in the header of her blog. It was a nice design to adapt with a fair amount of detail.

The other commission was to make a sun and moon plush again, one of my favourites.

Plushie Workshop

2010-03-28T16:01:00.006Z

So last Saturday I did a plushie workshop in my old college, IADT Dun Laoghaire. It was great fun, and a good turn out. The lovely Jenny Keane kindly organised it, she has a couple of pictures on her blog of what she made.

If anyone who was at the class wants to ask me about anything, feel free to comment here or email me at louise.bagnall[at]gmail.com

Unfortuatly due to interest in the college I couldn't open this up to the public. I would like to do more workshops (for everyone), but I've yet to find somewhere I could do it.. any ideas?

Fez Bear

2010-03-03T22:57:00.005Z

Made on commission. Features a removable bowtie.

The recipe was Bear + Fez + Sad =

Blue Lady Plush

2009-10-04T16:30:00.004Z

Its a little while since I made one of my lovely lady plushes. I finished her a couple of weeks ago and I was trying to decided what to do with her. I think I like this one too much to sell. I have her hanging on my wall and I'm not ready to give her away. Maybe in a little while, when I've made something to replace her on my wall...

Anyway, down to the details. I made her with felt and flannel that I hand dyed blue, and she has an embroidered face and blushed cheeks from the cold.

Music Lovers

2009-09-29T21:15:00.003Z

I forgot to post up this screen print when I did it last year. I made about 4 of them I think, as you can see the print was a little noisey so I didn't make very many copies. As a bonus, cos this is old (..even though its new to the blog) I've added a sketch I made which is of late:

Homemade Handmade

2009-09-22T19:12:00.004Z

I finished this embroidery piece after doing it in bits and pieces for months. Its good practise for my stitching skills and also for neatness. Anyway the theme of this one is Homemade Handmade and hopefully its pretty obvious what each panel represents. One is just simple sowing thread, one is scissors and one is like knitting needles. The tools of the trade if you will.

Anyway its felt and embroidery on a linen cotton mix and its 'signed'.
(By the way I'm not putting this up on etsy, so if anyone is interested my purchasing send me an email.)

Boum Plushie

2009-09-16T12:19:00.002Z

This is a plushie I made for Boum. Its a lovely character of hers that I really liked.

Made using fleece, tweed and felt.

Miffy

2009-09-04T11:19:00.003Z

Made for someone who likes Miffy. I'm slowly getting better at making clothes for plushies.

Pink Bunny

2009-08-13T17:24:00.004Z

The lamb, the bear and now the bunny. She is made from a pink herringbone fabric with a ribbon around her neck.
Her face has embroidered details and saftey button eyes.

Available now in my etsy and dawanda shops

Teddy Bear

2009-08-06T12:54:00.005Z

I made a teddy bear plushie. He is made from a soft wool herringbone fabric with a wool scarf around his neck. His face is embroidered and his arms and legs are a little moveable but you have to be gentle. One more animal left to make in this style.

Available now in my etsy and dawanda shops

Rocket Commission

2009-08-06T12:51:00.003Z

This is a retro style rocket I made on commission.

Embroidery posts

2009-05-17T20:29:00.004Z

I'm going to post my new embroidery stuff over on my art blog since I see it as being more like my drawn and painting artwork then my plush ---> www.elbooga.blogspot.com

Spring Lamb

2009-03-29T22:18:00.006Z

Its spring and thats the lambing season. This little bouncy chap has moveable arms (though be gentle) with blue ribbons and safety eyes. SOLD

Sun and Moon plushie

2009-03-24T00:42:00.006Z

A big happy sun and moon. Their soft and cuddly. They make a good pair.

Pink Lady Plush

2009-03-17T17:37:00.004Z

An all new lady plush, this time it was the pink tweed that inspired me.

Made with wool tweed, felt and embroidery floss. 27 x 16cm

Boy in a big scarf

2009-02-25T00:38:00.003Z

I embroidered this piece onto felt, then stuffed it to make a plush. Best of both worlds. It was still cold when I started this but now its warmer he probably doesn't need that big scarf..

Its in my dawanda shop now.

Materials: Embroidery floss, wool felt, wadding

Blossom Bunny

2009-02-09T21:28:00.007Z

This is a little picture I embroidered on to wool felt. Its bunny, with a bird and a blossom tree. It's also an unashamedly girly picture :)

The piece is 17 x 13 cm. I think it would look lovely in a little frame, (or if not framed I could back it with another piece of felt which I will do if its requested.) Its available now in my Etsy and Dawanda shop (link on the right).

Red Riding Hood Tea Cosy

2009-02-04T22:54:00.003Z

This is a special red riding hood tea cosy I made for a christmas present. Haven't had the chance to upload it till now. You are looking at two sides to the same cosy. That wolf ain't ever going to catch little red.

It was the first time making a cosy, which I found challenging. I like how it turned out though and I'm thinking of making a few more on different themes.

I made it using a linen cotton mix, fleece, felt and polyfill stuffing.

Plushied out

2008-12-22T15:20:00.002Z

I have had a very busy few days. First was the open gallery art fair at This Is Not a Shop over in Smithfield. It was a good couple of days, and I sold lots of things including all my owls, an elf, a bunny, my rhino and stag beetle and a few patches. All in all it was really good this year, the walls were jam packed with artwork.

Then on Saturday I had my plushie Christmas workshop. It was the first time I had done anything like this, so I was a bit nervous before it started. Once I got on with it I was too busy to be worried about anything. It was just three hours long and we only had time to make one design up. I'm happy though that I gave a comprehensive enough introduction to sowing that they might continue on with it.

Other plushie news is that I have a few items on sale in the Irish Design Shop. Its open in Powerscourt town centre until christmas. They have a few of my screenprinted items and a couple of my 'unicorn' plushies.

Lastly, I have put up what I have left in my Dawanda shop (link on the right). Theres just a couple of patches and my flame-boy elf.

Its been a good start to the christmas holidays. Now I just have to get on with organising the last of my present buying and card making.

Plushies on sale

2008-12-17T23:22:00.002Z

On thurs and fri, the 18th and 19th Dec, my plushies will be on sale at This is Not A Shop. Its open each day from 3pm to 9pm. Have a look here http://thisisnotashop.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/2nd-annual-christmas-art-fair/

Also I will be there, making plushies and decorations for people to see. Come along and say hello!

Plushie Workshop is booked out!

2008-11-29T14:05:00.004Z

Its all booked up now, sorry to anyone else who wanted to go. I may be doing one next year, depending on how this one goes.

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I am doing a christmas plushie workshop in December at the Paper Lantern Studios http://paperlanternstudios.blogspot.com/

When: December 20th
Time:12-3pm
Where: Paper Lantern Studios, Mill Street, Dublin 8

Class costs €20, includes all materials, tea and fairy cakes

I'm really looking forward to it. Its open for complete beginners, in fact I'm expecting most of the people to have no experience sowing.

Head dress

2008-11-10T23:52:00.003Z

I dressed as a Native American for Halloween and I made a head dress for it. I only just got it finished in time, but it looked pretty good.

yeti!

2008-10-04T20:17:00.003Z

yeti!
made for halloween, a furry friend (who's a little slow, it must be the cold)

sold

Lady plush

2008-09-18T19:57:00.003Z

A lovely lady plush.

Today the weather was good but winters comming, so she's dressed nice and warm. Shes wearing a coat thats made from a hand dyed wool blanket.

Sold

Scott Morse's Tiger

2008-09-17T18:47:00.003Z

This plushie is based on Scott Morse's tiger character design for Southpaw and also his new book, tiger! tiger! tiger!

I made it because Mr. Morse is my favourite artist and storyteller, and as I had recieved a painting from him a while back, I thought that this might be a nice surprise for him.

I'm happy with how the plush turned out, espically his face and head. I would have liked a little more time to add finger and toe lines, but I really really had run out of time as a friend of mine was travelling to the states to give it to him.

All in all a good experience, I just hope he's liked...

screen printed plush together

2008-08-17T14:05:00.001Z

available to buy now at my dawanda and etsy shops, see the links on the right.

screen printed plushies!

2008-08-07T20:14:00.004Z

I did some screen printing of my designs on to fabric last weekend. It's something I've wanted to do for ages, and I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. Each one is unique as its not a perfect process, but I think that adds to the end product. I made five of each one in different colours and on different fabric. I'll be putting the rest of them up soon.

Their available now in my etsy and dawanda shops, the links are on the right.

Update on the patches and badges!

2008-07-26T12:32:00.002Z

So here is just a selection of the badges and patches I have made up over the past month. I really enjoy doing it, just thinking of new ways to incorporate them into other things I'm making.

Most of these are available in my Dawanda shop, see the link on the right hand side.

My sketches and doodles on fabric...

2008-07-14T11:22:00.004Z

I have started making loads of patches and little fabric art (that i have also turned into badges). I have millions of doodles and characters that I draw and I decided to make something with them. here is a few I have so far. They are available now at my shop.

wee owls

2008-07-07T16:25:00.007Z

This is a collection of small little owls. Their made from a wool blanket and felt that I hand-dyed.

They are roughly 4x4x2 inches and is nice for the squeezing. The wings are embroidered.

Now available in my shop: happy-plush-plush!

Hand dyed felt & wool and polyfill.

Large Owls

2008-07-06T12:06:00.006Z

Two large blue plushie owls. For use as a cushion, soft sculpture or just for the hugging.

They are roughly 10x10x3 inches and is nice for the squeezing. They has layered soft fleece wings.

Fleece, Hand dyed felt, gingham and polyfill.

Giraffe commission

2008-06-18T23:22:00.002Z

This is a plushie giraffe I made on commission. It was a character from a short animation so I had to stick to the design.
It worked out well and it was good practise to make someone elses character.

Fleece, felt and polyfill, embroidered the face.

Elephant painting and plushie

2008-06-02T10:44:00.004Z

For a good cause

Panda Plushie Swap

2008-04-28T17:16:00.005Z

This is my plushie swap panda bear. He's off today to his new home in Canda. He was designed by Ciaran Duffy duffbot.blogspot.com/ and Im really happy with the outcome. I might make some more animals along the same lines...

Here is the designs Ciaran made:

Crammed Organisms show: My Unicorns!!

2008-04-27T16:15:00.008Z

These are the plushies I made for the Crammed Organisms show. [link]

They are four real life unicorns, a rhino, a stag beetle, a narwhal and a swordfish. They each have 'unicorn' embroidered on them. I wanted to do something that was a bit different and unusual, and I pretty pleased with how it turned out.

Fleece, flannel, polyfill and pipecleaners

Elephants!!! lots of them

2008-04-17T14:10:00.011Z

These elephants were commissioned by the elephant research charity in the uk. Check out there website for more info on them, they do good stuff! --> www.elephantresearch.co.uk
Notice that there all different :)

Little Green Alien

2008-03-18T00:21:00.002Z

Done for commission, its a little green alien about 3 inches tall.

I'm watching an alien film as we speak, but I can assure you that this little guy is a lot friendlier.

Felt stuffed with polyfill

Bun bun in a dress

2008-03-16T18:39:00.009Z

This is a little girl bunny I made as part of a little series called 'bun bun'. Her fur is very very soft and she's very squeezable. Her ears have pipe cleaners in them so the're bendable.

I hand embroidered her dress with a flower and a vine and she also has a little pocket for any easter eggs she comes across.

She is made from a polyester blanket, and her dress is felt and cannot be removed. She has safety button eyes and an embroidered nose.

Now available in my dawanda shop: happy-plush-plush

Sleeping Blue Elephant

2008-02-17T17:00:00.006Z

Done for a commission. He's got a blanket for keeping warm on cold nights.

Fleece, linen, hand dyed material & gingham on the back of his ears.

Tree-boy

2008-01-20T14:15:00.002Z

This is my second elf creation, a tree elf, or tree-boy as its now known.

I think this is probably one of my best sown plushies from a technical point of view. The sketch of the design I made up for him is below.
Fleece, felt and a lovely leaf button.

And he is now available in my etsy shop: happy-plush-plush!

Mario Wacom Cover

2008-01-13T19:41:00.001Z

I made this wacom cover as a present. From fleece and felt.

Gas Flame

2008-01-05T23:03:00.002Z

This is a design I've made of little elf creatures with different natures; this one is a gas flame. Let me know what you think as I was going to make a series of them.

Fleece, felt and embrodairy thread.

Now available in my etsy shop: happy-plush-plush!

Deer and Faun

2007-12-13T14:47:00.000Z

Made espically for christmas presents. I'm really happy with how they both turned out.

Turtle

2007-11-27T22:25:00.000Z

This happy chap is a turtle thats ready to brave the cold.

He has a warm shell which is removable, as is his hat and scarf. He's made from moss green cordory, fleece, tweed and tartan. He also stands all on his own.

Day and Night

2007-11-17T16:25:00.000Z

This is my new design for my sun and moon plushie, the day on one side the night on the other. There squishy and hugable.

The monster from the deep!

2007-10-20T16:14:00.000Z

A loveable sea monster.. aww. This guy was designed by Eimhin Mc Namara www.evomc.deviantart.com , to be made into a plush by me
I made the pattern and adjusted the design slightly for plushification.

In time for halloween, enjoy!

Tootin' Blue ele

2007-10-14T14:33:00.000Z

A new little elephant! He's really very soft

Wide-eye bunny

2007-10-07T16:08:00.000Z

This bunny may look a little odd to some, but he's really quite a lovely little fellow. He's wearing a lovely red jumper with elbow and knee patches

Sleepy ele!

2007-10-07T16:05:00.000Z

Two elephants, one a plushie, the other a paper ele sown on to canvas. I made these to be auctioned off for an elephant charity http://www.elephantresearch.co.uk/splash.html .Ill post up when I know when.

You can see more of my art at my non-plush blog, www.elbooga.blogspot.com

Red Hen

2007-08-19T21:49:00.000Z

This was a commissioned piece. The brief was to design and make a red hen plushie. I wanted to push myself on this one so I decided to make it more 3 dimensional then previous designs and to use a wire frame.

I made and corrected many mistakes along the way, but I'm happy enough with the outcome.

I added the extras of the ribbion and rose at the end after asking if it was wanted. I also decided to give it a bottom, it is a hen after all!

Monster Monster!

2007-08-19T21:46:00.000Z

This is Aine MG's character (www.ainemcguinness.blogspot.com) of one of her crazy little monsters she draws. Made for her birhtday and now in her care.

Yury Gagarin!

2007-07-18T13:52:00.001Z

Made specially for Ciaran (duffbot.blogsopt.com) This was based his character designs of Yury Gagarin.

July 2007

GONE

Blue Boy

2007-07-18T13:37:00.000Z

This is Eammon O' N's (humlogic.deviantart.com) character plushified!
Hopefully I will be making more plushies of people characters.

July 2007

GONE

Hoodie Girl

2007-06-17T14:07:00.000Z

She's a hoodie who is interesting and sweet. she likes to hang out with other hoodies like the red hoodie boy below.

Made with fleece, felt and some other random materials. I had to use glue for some of her features because they were just to tiny for sowing.

SOLD

Marmalade

2007-06-17T14:04:00.000Z

This little girl is a plushified version of the main character in my graduate film 'Marmalade'.
she was hard to make, but worth it.

Mac and Wellies

2007-06-17T14:02:00.000Z

One of my favourites.

All handmade with fleece, felt and embroidery thread.
2007

SOLD

Hillwalker

2007-05-13T10:55:00.000Z

He's got a warm coat on (with little pockets), and a little wooly hat and some good boots. Just show him the mountain to climb!

March 2007

SOLD

Hoodie

2007-04-28T17:08:00.000Z

People misjudge him all the time.. but he is just a sweet little hoodie.

March 2007

SOLD

Starboy

2007-04-25T15:11:00.000Z

This is starboy and he's a lovely wee fellow.This is a plush inspired by my recent watercolour doodles (you can see them on my art blog, link is on the right).

I used fleece, felt and embroidery thread. March 2007

Covers and Cases

2007-04-15T14:46:00.000Z

I made these 3 cases to house (l - r) my ipod, harddrive and nintendo ds.
I was pretty happy with the outcome and there all quite useful.

felt, fleece, plastic button and embrodiary thread.

Blue Elephant

2007-04-15T14:40:00.000Z

My very first ellie. Made with blue fleece, felt and embrodiary thread.

GONE

Bargin Bunny

2007-04-10T16:33:00.000Z

This is Bargain Bunny, who is always on the lookout for a good deal and is frequently found at car boot sales.
This is the third plushie in the 'I-like-to-work' series.

Made from fleece, felt and old patterened material. Designed, sown and copyright to me, as with all the plushies I will post on this blog! Jan 2007

Door to Door Death

2007-04-10T16:28:00.000Z

This is Death, he's something of a door to door salesman and he's pretty successful.
This is the second plushie in the 'I-like-to-work' series.

Felt and old patterned fabric. Jan 2007

Buisness Bear

2007-04-10T16:26:00.000Z

This is Buisness Bear. His is the first plushie in a little series called "i-like-to-work".

He's made from soft fleece and pretty swanky 70's-esque patterned material. AND he has a little hat. Jan 2007

Sun and Moon

2007-04-10T16:24:00.000Z

An early plushie that I made as a present. your looking at two sides of the same toy here. about 20cm in diameter.

made from fleece, felt and embrodiary thread. Dec 2006

GONE