Wild Things - A New Safari Mask Sewing Pattern
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Are you ready for the kids to go totally wild? Want to take a safari without ever leaving home? Watch your backyard become the African savannah or turn the living room into a water hole with these lovely dress up masks.
This Wild Things Mask Sewing Pattern features patterns for Lion, Tiger, Giraffe, Zebra and Leopard masks. You can even make the Leopard into a Snow Leopard for a mountain adventure.
I'm so pleased with this pattern. I think the designs are my favourites so far and I've put a lot of extra effort into the pattern and tutorials. I've come up with a better (and easier) way of sewing the eye holes, and added whole sections explaining each technique used to make the masks. There's information on how to resize them to fit dolls (or newborns), printing guides and notes on materials to use.
The patterns are just as easy to follow as ever and are perfect for beginners. They're quick to sew and make a perfect gift or stocking filler. I think that practically all of the children Ella's class have gotten a couple of these masks for their birthday this year! I had a particularly amusing / gratifying experience this last weekend when I took Ella to a 'Superheroes' party for one of her school friends (you can see pictures of her freezer paper stencilled Wonder Woman costume here) - I looked around the room and realised that about half of the kids were wearing masks that I had sewn and Ella had chosen to give to them for their birthday's. It made me giggle and warmed my heart!
Anyway, back to these little wild things; we had so much fun shooting these pictures. I can tell that these masks are going to get a lot of play time. The leopard and snow leopard were particular favourites with my little testers. Anything that ROARs was a big hit too of course! (Any excuse to make a lot of noise really!)
Roooooaaaar!
As with all of my other PDF Mask Sewing Patterns this one contains bonus printables of all of the masks. You can print these at home onto card then let the kids colour, paint or decorate them however they like. Whey they're finished you simply cut them out and thread them with elastic. It's one of our favourite rainy day activities and is also great as a birthday party craft activity.
Colour...
Cut...
Play!
To celebrate the pattern release, I'm offering free copies of not only this pattern but the ENTIRE collection of Willow & Stitch mask patterns to two lucky readers. One here and one over on Instagram. You are welcome to enter both giveaways as many times as you like. Good luck!
