1st handmade toy!

Today, I made my 1st handmade toy for Caleb- a rattle! All thanks to Jo, whom I got the inspiration from. The last time I remember sewing was probably in Secondary School during Home Economics. That explains my 'interest' in sewing.

I was the one who preferred the cooking part to the sewing during my schooling days as I look forward each time to create a dish to bring back home for my family to try. I never enjoyed the sewing part as I would always fumble or never did understand why in the world must there be so many different types of stitches..

But nevertheless, I finally got down to making a toy for Caleb as I thought that it would be a good opportunity for myself to prove and show my love to Caleb by making him a toy since I dislike sewing so much. Prove to who? Well, basically, to nobody but myself. It's probably like a self-help kind of thing I do to improve on the areas I am weak in so as to function as a more wholesome person-more sacrificial of my time and more patience to sew this.

Anyway, this what I did. I first cut the felt pieces of the colours into these shapes..



Then I just stitch up the 8 pieces of felt one by one, and side by side...till it forms the rattle.



I changed a bit of the instructions that my friend, Jo taught me. I did not want the stitches to show in the rattle. So I hid it and left a hole on top to flip it inside out so as to hide the stitches.



Then I stuffed in polyfill into the hole with one chopstick to push it right in and dropped 2 bells in (for more sound) before filling it with more polyfill.



So lastly, I just sewed the top up. Thanks Vicky, my helper, who has also assisted me in making this possible. She was experienced in sewing as she took a sewing course before.



Ok, so how did Caleb react to his new handmade toy?

He was captivated with the colours as he stared at it. Then he tried to hold it and at the same time, suck his fingers.



He also dumped my rattle for his fingers..which is obviously more tasty.


Other times, he would treat it as an ice-cream.



So just within 5 mins, the rattle became quite wet from his saliva. Oh boy..

He was also studying it...probably got that from CT with his chem engineering background, figuring out how things work.



I do wish to make more toys for Caleb because its fun and inexpensive. Cant wait for Caleb to grow up a little more for both of us to make toys together. :)