This week I decided to sew a little guy! I have really basic sewing experience but this was my first time working from a pattern/making a plush and it was about as difficult as I anticipated, but overall I’m happy with the result!
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- original sketch
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- pattern; the fabric pieces i cut out were made bigger for more seam allowance, and everything on the left was tweaked in some way.
scrapped body
The pattern I created initially included a body; to come up with the basic shape I referenced a stuffed toy that I have and worked backward. I ended up scrapping the body as the other pieces came together because I thought the final result would look cuter if the limbs came directly from the star.
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- all the pieces i sewed were double layered, i felt the linen fabric i was using was too light
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- armature for the arms & legs
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- adding the limbs
Most of this project was machine sewn, but the hand sewing part certainly took the longest. (…along with turning the arms and legs inside out…) Becuase I edited my design as I went, I didn’t plan ahead in adding the gusset or limbs before closing up the edges of my star. Sewing those pieces and making sure that everything was going to fit in the end was a little daunting, and as you can probably tell the gusset was a.) sewn in wrong and b.) not the right size.
