I was organizing some old photos and found some of the original Little Buddies I made as a teenager!

I think they are the very first thing I ever sewed!

I remember a bunch of them were meant to represent people in my life, but all I remember now is the tiny pink dome one with 2 different eyes was me and the denim one was my brother (both clearest in photo 2).

I don't have any of them anymore, but I posted a photo of the buddies I've been sharing here on a site I have some family on, and the next time I talked to my dad like a week later he was raving about how much he loved them and told me he still has one of the ones I made back then! 😭 (our relationship is very complicated, so it hits hard to have him be so excited about an art project like this that honestly means so much to me, never mind find out he held on to a silly little doll I made and gave him as a teen for 15+ years)

Anyways, these are the original Little Buddies that inspired this project!

#MakeBadArt

I just realized I never posted the last of the little buddies I made before taking a break!*

Say hello to the latest friends to join the group!

Besides 1 bulk bag of assorted buttons I've been committed to not buying anything for this project (the fabric is all from undonateable outgrown clothing/old projects/old stained sheets/etc and they are even stuffed with scrap fabric that's I cut up into tiny shreds) I decided the only reasonable way I had to give the little teal buddy an eyebrow piercing (which he really really wanted) was to use one of the cheap rings I got pierced with years ago lol. 😜

*I'll hopefully make more at some point, but right now my new job is wiping me out

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