Lambie Love by Auntie Rachel

When I was a little girl, my Great Auntie Kaye gave me this lambie. This lambie went EVERYWHERE with me -- as you can probably tell by how flat and flimsey the ol' girl is! I love this lambie! I love how it smells, I love that I've had it for so long, I love that it's mine and I just love how cute it is! I even still sleep with it...there, I said it! :) Because of this lambie, I love sheep! I just love them! It helps that my name in Hebrew means 'ewe' so, I guess I'm born with an attachment to these creatures. My life probably came full circle when I was down in Kansas visiting on the farm when I got to bottle feed Cashew AND that one time I picked up a freshly born babe to help it find it's mother!

Two of my very good friends, from two completely different times in my life, have just had baby girls. One was premature (but is the cutest little thing and such a fighter!) and the other was given the name Rachel (but not after me). And this got me to thinking about what I can do/give to these new little people that was given to me...so, in combination with my new experience and skill (?) in sewing AND my new found free time away from facebook, I've decided to start making lambies! I'm calling them "Lambie Love by Auntie Rachel" and so far I've made three! I love it! Mom taught me how to do it since she's the one who copied the idea and has been making lambies for babies within the family for several years and now I've made it my project!

I present to you, my line of 'Lambie Love' by Auntie Rachel! I'm still practicing so they're not perfect, but I kinda like that! They have a personal 'handmade' touch with skewed legs and floppy ears but they are soft and adorable and super fun to make! The big one is approximately 30cmX30cm (11inX11in) so you get an idea about their size. My goal is to make a bunch of them over the winter to be able to have them for sale online and possible at a market or two -- they make a PERFECT gift for any child. It's a fun little project and I'm excited to be able to thread the sewing machine all by myself (Mom laughed so hard when she was showing me how to do it!) and it's such an accomplishment to finish a lambie before a shift at work!

I think the sewing machine will be humming this winter and I can't wait! I'd like to get my own with an embroidery option but that'll take some time.

Aren't they CUTE!