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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Sweater Brobee

For those of you who have young children, the name "Yo Gabba Gabba" may be a common part of your household vocabulary. I know it is with my brother-in-law and his wife. Their son LOVES Yo Gabba Gabba. His favorite character is Brobee. Brobee is this green striped creature that reminds me a lot of that old McDonald's character Grimace (old skool). For Christmas, I decided to make him a handmade Brobee toy of some type.



My original plan was to make him a Brobee sock toy, since Brobee could easily be made in the same fashion as a sock monkey. But it was virtually impossible to find green/lime green striped socks! I looked online, at Walmart, and Target! No luck. Then I tried to find striped fabric at JoAnns... no such luck (out of the thousands of patterns they have there). So finally I tried Ross, thinking maybe there was something I could use from the kids section. Again no luck.

So I gave up and decided to go shopping for myself. I went to the Juniors section to find a sweater for myself, and lo an behold, what did I find? THIS SWEATER!



It was PERFECT! The right color, and it came with a scarf!! All for $6.99! There were only two on the rack and I bought both of them up. I used one sweater for Brobee's body, and the sleeves from the second sweater for the legs. I also got a green microfiber towel to make his head.

Here are the pictures I took throughout the process:




Being that I'm not the best at sewing, I learned a few things along the way and had to redo the stitching of the arms and legs to the body, but it looked pretty good in the end.





On Christmas, my nephew was one happy boy. His first remarks about his gift were, "Brobee is BIG!"





All the time and hard work I put into it definitely paid off!

4 comments:

Mich(Pixe's Treasure Chest) said...

Very cool! You're nephew looks very happy, and I bet he'll treasure his Brobee for the rest of his life! What a great aunt you are!

Nevita said...

Very good work.
Happy NY

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Unknown said...

This is darling, and your nephew's precious as well!

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Rhianne said...

Wow I just found your blog from Shrimp Salad Circus and this is the most amazing thing I have ever seen. Me and my boyfriend love Yo Gabba Gabba! :) How have I not seen your blog before? x