Mini plush gifts and soft keyrings

The plush on this shelf is deliberately small: three to six inches, which is a palm rather than a pillow, and that changes what it is for. A palm-sized crochet animal sits on a desk without taking the desk over, clips onto a rucksack without swinging into the wearer, and posts in a padded envelope for the price of a stamp. Two-thirds of what stands here comes in a pack, and the packs are how a party bag or a class gets covered; the singles are the ones with a name, a hook or a card. Read the fiber line before you buy for a small child: crochet cotton and stitched felt behave differently in a wash from a stuffed polyester body, and a crochet animal with a bead eye is not the same object as a sewn one. Anything with a glued piece belongs to an older child, and the shelf says so on the pieces where it matters.

Everything on this shelf is one of plush or plush keyring, and the Tiny Gifts rack keeps the price, the pack count and the widest measurement on every card so the sums are done before you order.