Extreme Craft Challenge! 3.... 2.... 1.... GO!
Time to get this show on the road!
9:00am
I have spent the night in preparation, trying to figure out exactly how I want my little girl to look. I have a very good picture in my head but as we all know, making a plush involves 3D crafting, not 2D crafting. Unless I guess you're going for an applique. Which I'm not.
So I decided that I wanted her to be fairly plump. Plump involves darts. Sigh. Have I told you that pattern drafting is my least favourite part of the whole process? It really is. So her body piece needs a dart at the front and back to make her have a cute little rounded tum and bum. I have decided that she doesn't need feet, because frankly well... I'll be carrying her everywhere. She's going to have a life of luxury. So I'm going to stick with those long stumpy legs, powerpuff girl style. I had already sketched out how I wanted her hands to be - no fingers, but a stumpy little thumb - so that just involves tweaking that and making it a little larger.
Her head, well... Those are the hard parts for me. I have a bucket full of mutant heads that I hide away so their souless, demanding, criticising eyes can't follow me around the room. I've decided I don't want to use darts on her head, because that's just too many darts for me to deal with this early in the morning, so she's going to have a head gusset.
All that pattern planning aside, I finally decided on how I wanted her hair too - yarn hair, in the first style. Usually I always come back to the first sketch I drew out of any others, which I do find interesting. Usually it's my best drawn too, where I'm not really concentrating or trying to make things flow (what I call "force creating"), I just slap an idea down.
I've also decided that I want her arms jointed but I realised last night, to my abject horror, that today is Good Friday and so all the stores will be closed. So no cotter joints for me, unless I want to put off attaching her arms until tomorrow and failing my challenge! So I might go with thread jointed instead. Not that I've tried either of these methods before so it should be interesting!
So I'm off and racing. I have my sketches and I've sketched down her body shape - time for darts and darts and gussets and limbs!
Tune in later for my next update involving my BFF Mr Greaseproof Paper, and hopefully the beginnings of an actual pattern!
10:30am
Have I mentioned lately how much I hate drafting patterns?
I have her plump little body with her plumpifying little dart in it, and an arm and a leg, and the first drafts of a head. Like I said earlier, it's the head that gives me the most trouble so I'm going to some felt scraps to make a practice head and see how it goes. Another one to add to the Mutant bucket!
And of course, my dear friend, Mr Greaseproof Paper. Those of you who did a workshop with me will know how deep my love runs for this stuff. I use it for tracing paper, for transfer paper, for pattern paper, and also... sometimes... for greaseproof paper. But mostly for crafting.
9:00am
I have spent the night in preparation, trying to figure out exactly how I want my little girl to look. I have a very good picture in my head but as we all know, making a plush involves 3D crafting, not 2D crafting. Unless I guess you're going for an applique. Which I'm not.
So I decided that I wanted her to be fairly plump. Plump involves darts. Sigh. Have I told you that pattern drafting is my least favourite part of the whole process? It really is. So her body piece needs a dart at the front and back to make her have a cute little rounded tum and bum. I have decided that she doesn't need feet, because frankly well... I'll be carrying her everywhere. She's going to have a life of luxury. So I'm going to stick with those long stumpy legs, powerpuff girl style. I had already sketched out how I wanted her hands to be - no fingers, but a stumpy little thumb - so that just involves tweaking that and making it a little larger.
Her head, well... Those are the hard parts for me. I have a bucket full of mutant heads that I hide away so their souless, demanding, criticising eyes can't follow me around the room. I've decided I don't want to use darts on her head, because that's just too many darts for me to deal with this early in the morning, so she's going to have a head gusset.
All that pattern planning aside, I finally decided on how I wanted her hair too - yarn hair, in the first style. Usually I always come back to the first sketch I drew out of any others, which I do find interesting. Usually it's my best drawn too, where I'm not really concentrating or trying to make things flow (what I call "force creating"), I just slap an idea down.
I've also decided that I want her arms jointed but I realised last night, to my abject horror, that today is Good Friday and so all the stores will be closed. So no cotter joints for me, unless I want to put off attaching her arms until tomorrow and failing my challenge! So I might go with thread jointed instead. Not that I've tried either of these methods before so it should be interesting!
So I'm off and racing. I have my sketches and I've sketched down her body shape - time for darts and darts and gussets and limbs!
Tune in later for my next update involving my BFF Mr Greaseproof Paper, and hopefully the beginnings of an actual pattern!
10:30am
Have I mentioned lately how much I hate drafting patterns?
I have her plump little body with her plumpifying little dart in it, and an arm and a leg, and the first drafts of a head. Like I said earlier, it's the head that gives me the most trouble so I'm going to some felt scraps to make a practice head and see how it goes. Another one to add to the Mutant bucket!
And of course, my dear friend, Mr Greaseproof Paper. Those of you who did a workshop with me will know how deep my love runs for this stuff. I use it for tracing paper, for transfer paper, for pattern paper, and also... sometimes... for greaseproof paper. But mostly for crafting.