On the 8th Day of Christmas,

My true love gave to me:

8 Sloths a Sleeping,

7 Hedgehogs Knitting,

6 Deer a Playing,

5 Unicorns With Wings,

4 Computer Nerds,

3 Squirrels Named Ben,

2 Gnomes Wearing Gloves,

and an Owl in a Pine Tree!

OK! We are getting there, aren't we?

Here's the Download 8th_day_sloth_pattern.

This one is very simple- I print the pattern on cardstock paper and then trace around it with dissolving pencil. I used a light ecru colored fabric that had a faint pattern of lace. I think it was a fat quarter from JoAnn's but you could use any light muslin.

I used red perle cotton in the smallest size to embroider in a running stitch. Then place another piece of the same fabric on the back with right sides together and sew around with machine.

Leave a 2" opening at back of sloth to turn inside out after trimming close to the seam and cutting slits on rounded edges.

I use pinking shears and then turn and push seams out (carefully) with a small dowel or pencil eraser end.

Stuff gently with polyfiber or cotton or wool- whatever you have available. Sew opening closed with matching thread and use red perle cotton to make hanger in back of head by stitching and tying a knot in thread.

Sloths are very strange and exotic creatures and I can't imagine living where they would inhabit the trees in my yard.

I have seen them at zoos, of course and have always thought they were cute and scary at the same time, like koala bears,  I can just imagine them smiling at me as they ripped my arm off and beat me to death with it!  I can't help but love them, anyway.

teehee...sorry, that would indeed be a calamity...we'd never get finished with this 12 days...can you imagine the headlines? Local crafter killed by crazed sloth!

on to the 9th day...

xo,

Kim