So I had finally managed to get my hands on a copy of this pattern, and made my first elephant a few weeks ago during lockdown.
I looked at the suggestions for the fabrics, and it does say fleece, but I wanted something a bit more than a soft toy look to the head as it is hung in the dining room.
My Friend Pat very kindly gave me some 100% pure wool, and a piece of Grey 100% Pure Silk from her stash.
I made a few alterations to the pattern as I went along.  The front of the trunk I felt would look better with the embroidered details to look like wrinkles, and I lined the ears in the Silk for a very distinctive look.  And used a lightweight interfacing on all the pattern pieces to stop the wool from stretching and distorting while making up and during the stuffing process.
I did struggle with the tusks, as I had wanted to make them from cream leather due to the texture they would have, but physically attaching them proved very difficult.  I again altered the pattern to make opened facings at the tusk points, so that the tusks could poke through, and be attached from the back.  Again this was very difficult with the limited space available to get my rather large Man hands into.  So I switched to a piece of much softer cream suede for the tusks.
Said Friend Pat suggested that I make a head dress for the elephant, and I happened to have a sample book of pure silks, which had the perfect color match for the dining room wallpaper used on the feature wall.  So with some glass beads, some Indian style mirror embellishments and a fair bit of hand stitching, I made the head dress.

I have now copied the pattern and enlarged it to 150% (I did try 200%, but from measuring it would have been over 4ft across ear tip to ear tip) and I plan to make another in a darker grey wool, Might use silk again for the ear lining.

The plaque that I mounted him to is an offcut of MDF I had in the garage, cut to size, painted per, then I used gold leaf I already had and some gilding paste again from my crafting stash.  The stuff I used, was from 2 old cushions that had seen better days, so washed, and dried the inserts, and the stuffing was re-cycled.

All in all I've very happy with the finished Head.

I will post pictures, but didn't realise that I have to subscribe in order to do that now.  (Been a while since I logged into the site and wanted to post pics) so will do that, and add pics in a bit

So I had a "friend" message me via facebook to ask if I still made curtains, to which I replied that yes I still had the skills and equipment to make curtains, what was it that they were looking for?
The reply came back that they wanted curtains for Brother In Laws camper van conversion, and would I give them a price for making them up.  They would supply all the materials tape linings etc etc.  I said I'd need to know the sizes for each curtain so I could check they would be ordering enough and then I could give my price for the work.
7 Curtains in total, various sizes mainly width difference but drops all pretty much the same.  I checked allowances for hems tops etc, and told them how much I would have ordered to make them, and then said that I would charge £20 per width as a fee, (Not unreasonable as locally that's pretty much half the price of stores).

Curtains as I said were to be 28" drop (not long) various widths, "friend" wanted 3" heading tape which I said would be a tad much for such short curtains and maybe 2" tape would look better and give a better finished effect, (But already bought 3" tape) I also explained that as a basic rule of thumb that each curtain should be a minimum for 1 1/2 times the width of the window to get the gather rather then crinkled look and it worked out that in total I would be working with 8 widths of fabric, so £160 for fully lined handmade curtains, (plus whatever they were spending on the materials).

I got a reply back from said "friend" saying that was more than they wanted to spend, and that they had a lady in the village who had done work for her before and was much cheaper than me.

I have now been blocked as a "friend"

I could be really bothered by this, but I'm not going to be as to be honest for the work involved it really wasn't a life or death situation.  Just the cheek of it really....

Ho Hum, I know the value of my time, and less than minimum wage even if doing someone a favour isn't going to make me lose sleep