Baby Lamb Mobile
(May 2016)
A mobile I made for a coworkers baby shower. I found the pattern on a blog (crochet-lamb-pattern-and-baby-mobile). I used all Red Heart yarns, four colors of super saver flecks and the new Buttercup for the fluffy parts. 
The lambs are crochet in parts...a head, body, two ears and 4 legs. Putting together was not a problem. Actually the lambs are really quick and easy to make. I considered using bigger eyes, but I decided to stick with the 6mm safety eyes, since the sheep looked so cute in the pattern pictures.At first I made 3 lambs like in the pattern, but somehow I had made an extra body, found another super saver fleck color and decided to make an extra lamb.
After finishing the lambs, I made little clouds. One for each lamb.
From white felt, I cut the clouds. Used a blanket stitch to sew two together with embroidery thread. I stuffed them a little with polyfill.
As per the pattern, I used a 8" embroidery ring to hang the lambs and clouds from. I painted it white to match the white ribbon I used.
I spaced the string with the lambs and clouds evenly out. After attaching it to the embroidery ring with a tight knot, I attached them to the top ring.I had to made sure all the sides lengths of string were even from big ring to small ring, so that the mobile would hang straight and not lopsided.
After I had it hanging straight, I glued the little fencing around the embroidery ring. I was at first afraid I would not be able to find something like that here. But AC Moore carried it.The knots on the top ring looked too messy, I tried to use my ribbon string wrapped around it to make it look better, but it did not. In the end, I uses the fuzzy yarn to cover it. That did work for me.
And I am glad to mention, the expected mother seemed pleased with it.
