RE: Schazer and the Third Cruchet'd
08-10-2014, 05:16 PM
The old craft thread was launched into the Superether so I'm reviving this'n instead because I'm sewing! Again.
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Heracross here is made from midnight blue fabric which might be minky; I've never actually handled minky fabric before so I wouldn't know. It's slightly reflective, got a very short pile (<1mm), and I got a 1.5m x ~32cm piece for less than two bucks out of a bargain bin.
His antennae and arms are threaded with Gauge 20 wire, which is soft enough to bend with my fingers but likely to put up with a fair bit of posing.
The horn and facial mask are composed of three pieces - two big bits and a butterfly-shaped piece where they split apart at the top for his horn.
The whole thing's been a series of improvisations, but he's composed of simple shapes (U-shaped pocket for the lower body, hemisphere for the top, everything else has been tubes or identical shapes sewn back-to-back), plus the fabric is very forgiving and I've got no shortage of it so I've been freer to test and tweak the pattern as I go, for instance his lower arms (first run on the left, final version on the right).
He's distinctly wonky; the embroidery on his thorax isn't perfectly centered and his faceplate suffers for my not being ambidextrous. The overall effect makes him look like he's leaning in from the right, which is kind of cute in its own way maybe.
All I've got left is to find white polymer clay, make him little polymer clay claws, then finish his hands, right leg, and feet.
Other stuff I want to sew plush versions of at some point:
If other people want to talk about or show off their sewing/crocheting/knitting/embroidery projects, I'd love to see you share them or discuss techniques!
Heracross here is made from midnight blue fabric which might be minky; I've never actually handled minky fabric before so I wouldn't know. It's slightly reflective, got a very short pile (<1mm), and I got a 1.5m x ~32cm piece for less than two bucks out of a bargain bin.
His antennae and arms are threaded with Gauge 20 wire, which is soft enough to bend with my fingers but likely to put up with a fair bit of posing.
The horn and facial mask are composed of three pieces - two big bits and a butterfly-shaped piece where they split apart at the top for his horn.
The whole thing's been a series of improvisations, but he's composed of simple shapes (U-shaped pocket for the lower body, hemisphere for the top, everything else has been tubes or identical shapes sewn back-to-back), plus the fabric is very forgiving and I've got no shortage of it so I've been freer to test and tweak the pattern as I go, for instance his lower arms (first run on the left, final version on the right).
He's distinctly wonky; the embroidery on his thorax isn't perfectly centered and his faceplate suffers for my not being ambidextrous. The overall effect makes him look like he's leaning in from the right, which is kind of cute in its own way maybe.
All I've got left is to find white polymer clay, make him little polymer clay claws, then finish his hands, right leg, and feet.
Other stuff I want to sew plush versions of at some point:
If other people want to talk about or show off their sewing/crocheting/knitting/embroidery projects, I'd love to see you share them or discuss techniques!
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clouds is shaky love | broke as hell but i got a bunch of ringtones
eyes blood red bruise aubergine | Sue took something now Sue doesn't sleep | saint average, day in the life of
woke up in the noon smelling doom and death | out the house, great outdoors
staying warm in arctic blizzard | that's my battle 'til I get inanimate | still up in the same clothes living like a gameshow