Make Your Own Menagerie This Halloween Season with Proggy Menagerie

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Today I have a wonderful book that is perfect for showing your creativity this holiday season!

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20 Soft and Snuggly Rag-Rug Animals to Hook and Sew

Synopsis:

Learn the basics of the Proggy technique with step-by-step photo guides, then set your creativity free with the easy-to-follow patterns. In Proggy Menagerie, designer and author Hayley Smith provides a collection of adorable three-dimensional rag-rug projects that can be adapted for use as children’s toys, pet toys, or home accessories. The technique is easy to master—simply cut your fabric into strips and push it through the holes in some Hessian backing—and has been a traditional way of creating mats for centuries. This technique, known as “progging” in northeast England, is familiar the world over. 

Proggy Menagerie puts a refreshing modern twist on the technique, moving it beyond the usual two-dimensional rug format, with instructions for making twenty fun and funky three-dimensional stuffed animals. With a few adaptations to the backing, filling, and eye materials, the projects can be safely used as soft toys for children, chew toys for pets, or be used as doorstops and draft blockers around your home. Designs include:
- Woodland creatures
- Farmyard favorites
- Perfect pets
- Feathered friends
- Water babies

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Review:

Just look at those faces! You KNOW you want to make the turtle and bat, RIGHT now, right? 

And you can! Hayley really takes you step by step through each animal, making it so simple to make these adorable creatures, that you will wonder why you haven't been making them before now! As you can see below, you get step by step COLOR photos, and Hayley's instructions are very clear. 

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She has included additional Try This segments to take your creation to a new level, or to make them suit for a holiday (which means Christmas gifts too!). Additionally she gives you basic instruction on some basics, like stuffing your creation, to help you get the best looking creature! You might just find yourself addicted, and needing to make the whole menagerie, after you make your first creature! So be sure to pick up this book and learn a new craft!


About the Author:

Hayley Smith creates all the products, designs, and patterns for her successful craft business, Craft Yourself Silly. Her Proggy kits, supplies, and tools are stocked by retailers throughout the United States. The author lives by the sea in northeast England.

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