Under the Sea -- A Challenge

As members of the Blogging Business Artisans Etsy team, we have a monthly challenge to create something that follows a suggested theme -- June's theme was brought to us by Erika of Artful Rising who challenged us to create a project with the theme "Under the Sea."


Naturally, my thoughts turned to a collection of sea creatures for the kids. I decided that a frilly starfish, a cutie seahorse, and a couple of little fishes would go into my play set.

I needed to make a bag to hold everything -- I started crocheting one, and then changed my mind! (Something I do quite often!) I get part way done and then rip it out and start again on a different tangent -- do you do that?

I love this chubby seahorse. He's just so round and cute! 

Here he is showing off his cutie little multicolored fins. 

He's quite proud of them, you know ....

This is miss starfish with her gal pal fishies.

Well, the green fish might be a boy, but he's not telling ....

I knew I wanted fish on the front of the bag and at first thought of crocheting an applique to sew on, but then decided that a felt fish would be cuter. So I made the bag out of felt (easy peasy with two sheets of felt from the craft store) and then cut out a little fish and sewed it on. Even stuffed it a bit to make it chubby and interesting for little hands! Then I crocheted some bubbles and sewed those on. I think it came out pretty cute!

These little sea creatures are making their debut in my Etsy shop!

miss starfish is oh, so excited!

♥♥♥  To see other Under the Sea challenge projects, check out the BBA team blog!

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