The Octonauts have arrived

It's been a horribly long time since I've blogged but I have been busy trying to get the ideas out of my head and into reality.

This is the most recent project. My son loves this gorgeous little program called "Octonauts". It's about a group of animals that explore, rescue and protect all the creatures in the oceans.  He's watched all the episodes over and over. The show is relatively new there is no merchandising available as yet, so we've been making our own for him to play with. It started with a cardboard "Octo-alert" button and then I made him a little medical bag.

Then one day in the shops there was a plain blue jumper that was a perfect Octonauts blue just screamed out to have some kind of Octonauts design on it. I had been reading a few great blogs like You Sew Girl and Curly Pops and one of them (sadly I can't remember which) had a project that involved using a freezer paper stencil and fabric paint to create a design.

I realised this would be the perfect thing for the Octonauts jumper. And after finally getting my hands on some freezer paper and fabric paint I made it and am quite proud of the result.

Firstly I traced the design onto the freezer paper off the Octo-alert I had made and cut out the stencil and ironed it onto the shirt.

Then I used a foam brush to paint in between the stencil.

Then I just had to let it dry and peel of the paper (it leave no residue). I ironed the jumper to seal the paint and voila - one happy little boy. And one happy Mum!

I'm very excited as my husband posted the picture to the Octonauts facebook page and I received compliments from both the makers of the books and the TV show. Woohoo!