For my BF's birthday (in January) I decided to make him a felt robot because robots are amazing. I started by making a tiny pink pet robot for the big robot. It had to be pink because 'our' album is Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips. The big robot took about 16 hours to complete and has about 1,650 hand stitches. On the night I met my BF, it was an early halloween party and I was dressed as the Queen of Hearts with red felt hearts stitched onto my tutu (and a pig's heart in a box but that is probably another Craftster post), the last of these felt hearts is stitched on to the chest of my robot. He has a coin slot in his back (complete with chocolate coin), his arms and legs are elasticated and his mouth and tongue and position-able
So here he his,
as yet nameless Bert (short for Ro-Bert) on location in the meter cupboard:
And here with his little pink robot pet:
And one for luck:
Hope you like him. We are going to go off today and do a shoot around London so I will try and post more pictures after that. I am thinking maybe he needs a scarf too and as yet he has no name so any suggestions are welcome.
Malinki xx
Edited to add: Today I took him on the London Underground... He loved it...
Waiting for the tube:
On the tube (which gives you a better idea of scale):
Finally:
I added a made with love tag to the back of his hand... It is attached with a surgical staple as once due to over-excitement I accidently surgically stapled the back of my hand
It is held on with red ribbon which the BF used to tie something special. Awww!
And this is his coin slot (complete with chocolate coin) which pays homage to a whole slightly crazy afternoon spent listening to Dresden Dolls we once had.
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Edited to add an update:
Thanks everyone for all the really sweet comments. I gave him to my amazing BF about a month ago now and he absolutely loved him. It has become a bit of a habit to take Bert everywhere with us. Including to our friends' Harry Potter theme costume party - being slightly random we decided to make him a costume too. Our friends have now decided that we have to bring him dressed up to all future parties.
Presenting Dumblebert!
He is settling in to life at my BF's place really well and has developed some new hobbies:
He has become an expert in cheese and wine:
And taken up yoga:
And chillaxing with the BF:
Any for anyone who is interested, here is my BF with Bert. I love how you can see how much he loves him in this picture:
