#gavle goat plushie

[tj-crochets]

The super cuddly plushie gavle goat is complete!!!

Time to make some more little flame pins to add to it lol

[nimbusmist]

Disappointed that you can't buy the gavle goat plushie from the us 😔

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! The iron pills seem to be working, and I'm a lot less fatigued than I have been lately, but the downside is I am reaaaally struggling to focus so I do not have a crafting update (the gavle goat does have a head now but it is not attached). It'll even out, this just happens every time my energy levels improve lol I went to the store today to get a horse plushie I could decapitate and add a teddy-bear-style torso to to make a centaur bear but the only horse plushie in the entire store was one of those "walking toys" for little kids and I have been specifically forbidden* from making plushies that can move :(

*aka the part of my family I live with was like no, absolutely not, do not make moving plushies, please no

[tj-crochets]

Gavle goat plushie progress! My initial draft of the body pattern wasn't going to work, so I redrew it, and now I have one leg sewn (for proof of concept and to compare sizing), the body pieces cut out, and just need to sew the other three legs before I can sew the body together. Once I have the body and legs together, I'll tackle drafting the head and neck patterns. The horns will be the last pattern I draft, because I could do a bunch of math to try to figure out how long they should be, or I could wait until I've sewn the rest and hold up some paper in the gap where they should be and draw the pattern on the paper, and one of those is much easier lol

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all I realized I have the right colors of fabric (or close enough) to make the gavle goat (gavlebock?) in plushie form, but how big should I make it? And should I make it floppy and cuddly (the small version probably with my floppy okapi base pattern) or attempt to make it able to stand up on its own, but that would make it less cuddly? I'm leaning towards floppy and cuddly, bigger than the okapi, but smaller than the plesiosaur

[tj-crochets]

Thanks everyone for all the ideas! I am still undecided what I'll make, so far I think the only winter holiday plushies I've made are a chris-moose, the gavle goat, a menorah (hanukkiah? I am unsure of the difference), a dreidel, and I think I made little christmas tree plushies years ago but I might've just thought about making them and never actually made them? I have also made some yetis/abominable snowmen over the years but that's just because I like making monsters it's not really linked to any particular time of the year lol

So I make no promises given my everything, but does anyone have any holiday and/or winter-related plushies they'd like to see me make? editing to add: this migraine is eating my words a bit so if I reply to your comments and my reply doesn't quite make sense please feel free to ask clarifying questions I will not be offended I just have some words missing at the moment and some are harder to work around than others. It's not you it's me lol

[tj-crochets]

Now I have to choose if I want to prioritize cuddleability or accuracy for the gavle goat plushie Also, ease of sewing/limiting hand sewing vs keeping each pattern piece small enough I could share them later...decisions decisions

I have some new colors of fabric, so time for a new

[tj-crochets]

For all the people finding this from the "has the goat burned" blog, hi! Here are the flame pins I was talking about, I'm going to make more and try to vary the sizes more

The super cuddly plushie gavle goat is complete!!!

Time to make some more little flame pins to add to it lol

[tj-crochets]

Three flames assembled so far!

The super cuddly plushie gavle goat is complete!!!

Time to make some more little flame pins to add to it lol