One of the times being crafty comes in handy is for birthdays…

So when my husband told me of his friend’s little girl’s My Little Pony birthday, I shuffled through patterns for this one I had used ages ago, when Myla wanted an all-black and pink MLP for christmas…

Back then, I had found this wonderful MLP pattern by Dollphinwing on Etsy.  She even has patterns for different manes, tails, and extras…

So I pulled out the pattern again, took a trip to the craft store to pick out fabrics, and started building a custom MLP for a very girly 3-year old.

Looking back, I probably should’ve gone with the minky fabric like the pattern suggested, as it tends to hide any stitches and flaws pretty well.  Regular cotton fabric is MUCH less forgiving, but I think it turned out okay!

I purchase little hair clips to hold up the wings that they could remove later, and put in the little girl’s hair.  I handpainted the eyes in acrylic, and let my daughter name it and choose a cutie mark I could paint on.

She chose “Cupcake,” and I painted a cupcake cutie mark on its bum–which is funny, considering the gift bag I had grabbed, and didn’t realize until later (and Myla had no idea) was purely coincidentally DECORATED IN CUPCAKES:

So there you go!  It went over very well at the birthday party.  Surrounded by tons of store-bought MLP toys and clothing, this custom handmade one brought a kid-hug and a big happy smile.

So head on over to Dollphinwing!  She has no idea I’m sending you, but I like to share great things when I have a chance…she’s got a fox pattern there that I just purchased.  Myla’s birthday is coming up and since our kid is a stuffed animal junkie, I will most likely use it to make a doll of the arctic fox character that Myla came up with.  I’ll keep you posted!

Happy crafting!