Yesterday I attempted to sew my first stuffed animal as part of the Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores® “Cape Discovery” summer crafting challenge. Not too bad, right?
There are 72 featured crafts in their spring catalog, and there’s a craft for all skill levels. I decided I wanted to challenge myself a bit and chose to make the Fat Quarter Monkey.
Here is a side-by-side shot of the Fat Quarter Monkey from the Jo-Ann catalog and mine…
If you happen to like my monkey, I would love if you re-pinned this side-by-side image with the hashtag #summerofjoann, as the blogger with the most repins will win a JoAnn gift card.
The instructions are available online through PDF download, and this particular craft definitely requires some sewing knowledge. The instructions are extremely vague, so for someone with zero sewing experience, I could only imagine this craft would be not only confusing, but it would probably seem impossible. I honestly struggled with it a bit.
And if I had to do it over again, I would enlarge the pattern a lot more than I did and make this monkey bigger. It would make it easier to stuff and sew, in my opinion.
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