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April ditto plush reveal!

April's reward for the ditto plush tiers is cosmic brownie ditto! he can be chocolate scented upon request 🍫

i enjoyed making this one very much, especially with the *ahem* 2023-03-12 15:30:19 +0000 UTC View Post

April sticker(s) reveal!

April's stickers are the sprout dittos!! 🌱
Since these little guys are smaller than my normal stickers, the sticker tiers will include 1 normal and 1 shiny sprout! The normal is made with my normal glossy laminate and the shiny is made with holo star laminate!

Patterning series & last day of kaiju prototyping!

Hey all, happy Friday!
Today i posted another entry in the patterning series - this one is about designing embroidery! It took a long time to write, so i hope you find it helpful!
It was also the la...

Ditto sprout backing card & kaiju day 4!

Hey all! Tomorrows friday!!
Today i knocked out the backing card for the ditto sprout pin! I'll marinate on this one for a day before calling it final. I have to make a big business card order but I'm holding off as long as i can on ordering all my pin backing cards because i want to see what ...

Patreon & kaiju work!

Happy wednesday! This week is flying by @_@
I had to spend a lot of time taking my dad to an appointment today but i was able to get some work done prepping some patreon posts for the future while i was waiting!
I also continued work on the kaiju - as promised he became even chonkier from t...

Peepitto backing cards & more kaiju progress!

Hi all!
Today i continued work on the backing cards for the peepitto pins! I always print out a test to make sure everything looks OK in person before sending them off to production. I have a few adjustments i need to make but I'm pretty happy with them!
I also continued work on the kaiju p...

April pattern day 1!

Hi all, hope you had a nice Monday!
I started the day by beginning the design for the peepitto backing card! I have a lot of work to do on it, so I'll save the reveal for when i clean it up a lot!
But the big event of the day was starting the kaiju pattern that will be a pattern reward for ...

Finishing cosmic brownie dittos & sublimation fun

Happy Saturday!
Today i was finishing up the embroidery for the cosmic brownie dittos for april's plush tier reward. As i was about to sew on the backs i decided to sublimate a darker brown mochi; cosmic brownies have a lighter top frosting and a darker brownie, and the difference between the ...

Working on April dittos & April's pattern teaser 👀

hey all!

i started the day by taking even more dorayakitty photos, and had so much trouble choosing the one i wanted as the main pic... and then just ended up using one i took ages ago 🤣 oh well!

i also finished up another entry for our patterning series that's going on, this time ...

Reward fulfillment day 2 & dorayakitty photos!

Today i finished packing up & mailing out the rest of the March ditto plush and more stickers!
I also finished sewing up some more dorayakitties and took some cute photos with them, and recorded some footage for their videos!
Tomorrow i plan on starting the cosmic brownie dittos for the...

1st of the month! Patreon work, reward fulfillment & finishing mini dorayakitty embroidery

The first of the month is always a busy day for me since i roll over my patreon to a new month of rewards! If you haven't read the post about March rewards, you can check it out here!
The patreon shop,...

March Rewards Info!

here's information on the rewards for this month!

march's shop password for $5 patrons and up can be found in this post:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/marchs-patreon-79400959

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Dorayakitty!

O LAWD HE COMIN! I finished a large dorayakitty today! This pattern will be a reward in March as well as a tiny ITH version!
I'm still tweaking the embroidery for the minies, it is REALLY hard to get embroidery defined at such a small size 😩 hopefully will have progress to share by the end ...

Monthly catch up!

Another month come and gone - this year is FLYING by!! 💀

things are still crazy busy for me over here, but what about you? did you make anything you'd like to share in february? anything you're looking forward to in march? it doesn't have to be plush related!

i am VERY excited abou...

Happy pokemon day! Post office run, updated Hopen guide & sad QC on pins

hi all, happy pokemon day!

today i dropped off all the breakfast orders at the post office! it wasnt as hard carrying everything in 1 go since there weren't any boxes this time 💪😤

i also finally got my hands on a full mochi swatch set from hopen textiles! i'm not sure why mine w...

Breakfast buddy fulfillment day 2!

Here we are, 4 full bags of orders ready to go out tomorrow morning!
Thank you again everyone for your support! 🙏

Breakfast buddy fulfillment day 1!

Thank you everyone who supported me on this drop! I had 200 plushies for sale today and they went so quickly. I can't tell you how much it means to me! It still blows my mind every time!
Fulfillment for drops is always a 2-3 day process for me. While i pre-scent 1/3 of the plush and hand-sew a...

Beginning of dorayakitties & pin disaster 😩

Happy Friday!
Since im a bit behind schedule i spent the day working on the newest tutorial post.
I also received my peepitto pins but... ALL of the yellow ones have black smudges that can't be removed!! 😩 so they will have to be remade sadly...
I ended the day by working on the doray...

Day ruined by emergency adulting 🙈

Ugh, today did not go as i planned at all - i had something really urgent come up before lunch that ended up with me making stressful phone calls for 5 hours - what a waste of a day!!
I did manage to work on an embroidered version of the head pattern I've been using for patreon posts! There ar...

Finishing up dittos & shop prep, moving on!

Hey all! Happy hump day!
Today i finished sewing up the ditto donuts and finalizing my shop for Saturdays update! Tonight i need to stuff the rest of the donuts and do more handsewing but the bulk of the work is behind me!
I took some time to continue work on the head pattern for a tutorial...

Donut day 2!

Hey all! Today was the 2nd day of donut production for this Saturdays shop update! I got all the purple donuts embroidery done and I'm about 1/3 through sewing all the donuts together. As i figured might happen i didnt get them all done today so I'll be finishing them up tomorrow in addition to p...

Peepitto pin preview!

I got this pic from my manu last night! These mini peepitto pins are getting shipped out to me soon! 🥳 they will be a part of my spring shop update in a couple months!!

Donut day!

Happy Monday!
Today was the first day of donut production! I got all the embroidery for the rainbow and shiny ones done. I'd reaalllyyy like to get the purple ones made and everything sewn up tomorrow but we'll see how it goes! Things usually take longer than i expect 😅
After these are m...

Locking in breakfast shop update day!

Since i finally received fabric today to finish the donuts for the breakfast buddy line I'm locking in the shop update day for them as 1 week from today! It'll be
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 AT 1PM EST!

Breakfast prep & dorayakitty plans 👀

Hi all, happy Saturday!
I've gotten all the breakfast dittos stuffed and ready for hand sewing! The scents have been mixed up too!
I decided to make some dorayakitties with my new squish cat pattern, so i went to buy some dorayaki at a local japanese specialty store.. and look at how perfec...

More mochi mew work!

Hey all, happy Friday!
Today i did more work on March's reward for $5 tips & tutorials patrons and higher - besides the mini ITH version, I'll also be including embroidery files and a sewing pattern for a mega mochi mew!
These guys are beginner friendly and can be made from any stretch ...

March pattern reward work!

Today i had a lot of fun working on a reward for March $5 tips & tutorials patrons and higher! I'm tentatively calling these "mini mochi mews" - a month or so ago i had this idea to make a very round kitty out of mochi that would be a really good stim toy, and here's the result! Its a tiny ba...

Pancake day 🥞

Today i had to spend most of my time adulting, unfortunately, but i was able to finish up the last of the pancake dittos for the upcoming breakfast shop update!
I'm still waiting on some fabric in the mail to make the donuts, but I'm *hoping* it'll arrive saturday or Monday - which means we're...

Happy valentines day!

Hi all, hope you're having a nice valentines day!
Today has been a bunch of various tasks for me, including finishing up the sewing of the waffle dittos and the rest of the April stickers. I also worked on more content for future patreon posts, took some photos of the bacon and egg dittos, and...

Waffle ditto day!

Happy Monday! Hope youre having a nice start to your week!
Everyone say hello to the newest member of the breakfast buddy family: waffle ditto!
Today i finished up the sublimation design for these guys and got all the fabric prepped for sewing together. I also started preparing the sublimat...