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Knitter, sewist, Seattle Soccer Fan, occasional tech stuff, whatever else tickles my fancy. Cilantro is fine, but pickles are a waste of a perfectly good cucumber.
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Sew Your Own Shark Pattern

tldr: sewing pattern links are at the bottom of this text!

A friend of mine was on Mastodon, musing that they wished they had a Blåhaj that was made in trans colors, a while ago. I am, of course, painfully easy to intrigue into crafts projects, so that evening I started looking around for a sewing pattern, and then for a Sacrificial Shark, to begin to make this muse a reality.

a pink, blue, and white stuffed shark

A kind friend gifted me a shark (smaller size), which I immediately began to dissect in service of understanding how they went together.

an unstuffed and partially unstitched shark stuffie

the inside out shark, each part labelled with a sharpie

This quickly moved on to referencing and drawing a new sewing pattern, sewing a test stuffie... picking on my cat with the test stuffie... and finally, the Full On Making of a "tri-color" shark.

a pink, blue, and white stuffed shark

But, that's not all! I've got a whole queue of friends who deserve, or have requested (or both!), a shark! So, before I get going on my new shark assembly-line, I thought I'd get my pattern and instructions together, so that others can join me in making people happy with stuffed sea life!

Here Are The Pattern Instructions

Tri-Colored Shark Sewing Pattern

Bi-Colored Shark Sewing Pattern

Please enjoy, but note that this was made in my spare time, for non-commercial personal use. I am making no money, here, just sharing the love! If you make a shark, tell me about it! Here, or on mastodon at @nothe@notacult.social ! Or just shout your joy to the skies, I'm not the boss of you.

PS: for my proof-readers, I'd like to note that I am FINally finished! ;) 🦈🏳️‍🌈🤍💙💗

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FYI your images aren't appearing for me in the post. If I visit the direct URLs they work, but they don't seem to like being embedded!

Edit: It seems like the issue is that your site does not support https but cohost (or my browser?) is forcing the image URLs to load over https.

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ah, thanks for figuring out the difference! I have waved this fact under my husband's nose, since he's the one who does the admin-ing, but as the URL's are specified as http URLs, I'm gonna go out on a limb & say it's probably a security setting in your browser forcing them to try for the https: version? Getting our host updated is on his list of things to do, though!! :)

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