Lowly Worm Plush

Spending my last days of summer freedom checking off more items from my Pinterest bucket list. Richard Scarry is one of my favorite classic authors, I can remember many a trips to the public library, paging through What Do People Do All Day? and Cars and Trucks and Things That Go. A few months back I found that Scarry had published patterns (and lots of other fun projects) in his 1977 Best Make-It Book Ever!

One of the projects is a pattern for Lowly Worm and I've been dying to make it ever since I laid eyes on that cute little guy. Unfortunately, the closest library that has a copy is almost 1,000 miles away (according to WorldCat) and used copies are pretty spendy.

Fortunately, there are some wonderful bloggers out there and Suzy Fairchild happens to be one of them. She posted the pattern pieces on her i heart fabric blog and so I was able to finally assemble my little worm friend.

I printed the pattern and directions on just plain 'ole printer paper and got to work using cheap crafting felt sheets.

I was so excited about assembling Lowly that I forgot to take pictures along the way. I followed the book's directions pretty closely and he turned out adorably. I did do a lot of hand-sewing. A lot.

I didn't have a tiny yellow feather on hand, so I trimmed down a small feather and colored it with a yellow permanent marker. Worked like a charm!

The gluing of the eyes didn't work so good, so I stitched them in place.

Isn't he adorable!

Have fun making your very own Lowly. I'm in love!