Purple Mountain Majesties

The January scrapbusting continues! While looking through my fabric bins, I quickly came to the conclusion that the bulkiest yardages in there are fleece scraps. When my mom was cleaning out all the fabric in my old room at home in SF a couple years ago, she insisted that I take all of the bags of fleece. It's only right, of course, considering that a lot of it was from my early plushie projects. Unfortunately, fleece take up so much space! If I'm going to be efficient about stashbusting, using those pieces needs to take first priority.

The worst part was that so much of it was tiny scraps (less than four square inches...I don't know why I saved such tiny pieces). If I was to be perfectly honest with myself, I would have to admit that they will never be used on an actual project. I mean, I guess I could have cut eyes out of them, but will I ever really need hundreds of stuffed animal eyes in different colors? The answer is a resounding no, of course, so I decided to turn them all into stuffing. The only question was, what would they be stuffing for?

In case you didn't guess from the title of this post...

As the Crebain from Dunland would see it. 

I had this pillow hanging out in my "Crafts to Make" pin board as well, so I went with this large-ish piece of lavender fleece that was a remnant from blanket-making...it's not a color that I would ever use for a stuffed animal or food item, so I felt okay turning into some majestic purple mountains.

"I want to see mountains again, mountains Gandalf!"

See how lumpy it is? But at least my seams lined up?

I didn't bother following the actual tutorial/pattern, due to the odd shape of my fleece pieces. I freehanded (freescissored?) the mountain shape and then cut snow pieces until they looked about right. I also made the corners boxier so that it would sit up properly, then stuffed it with all my scraps. It makes for a lumpier, heavier pillow, but at least it's sturdy and sits nicely? Anyway, the more important result: there's now space in the bin for a few more sheets that were formerly living in plastic bags! 

You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-Dum...the Nameless Terror, Durin's Bane!
Okay, okay, so Walnut's not exactly made of shadow and flame, but he did look pretty grumpy about being woken up from his nap just to take a picture with some dumb mountain. 

You shall not pass. 

One last, slightly less forbidding picture.