Old clothes into new baby stuff... stuffed animal tutorial

    I have been waiting for the maternal instinct to overwhelm me, but nothing happened (;-)) so far, so I tried to do something about it, create something for my expected little ones! Since I have gathered a lot of clothes I don't wear anymore, I decided to use them :

   So I started by making this pattern using a pencil, 2 A4 paper sheets glued together and a pair of scissors. A pattern for the body, the ears and tail :

   Drawing the pattern on the trousers...:

    Cut the double fabric and then sewed it together:

   Same with the ears, I used the fabric of the inner pockets of the trousers:

    And the result after stuffing them with glass wool parts and sewing... :

   I also stuffed the body with glass wool and then sewed the ears on it:

    ...and the result:

    I had a hard time sewing this totally by hand, so I asked my mom to give me her old singer sewing machine to experiment a bit. 

And here are the stuff I made:

From this..

to this

 

this..

into this..

 

   And also:

old trousers

..into another stuffed elephant!

    Since I had the machine I thought of doing some more things except stuffed animals.. So I experimented with some old advertising towels a t-shirt and my trousers (again...) :

   And made these bibs!

 
    Cute?