Showing posts with label puppet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label puppet. Show all posts

October 2, 2011

More Puppet Making

I have some renewed interest in my puppet pattern and almost all the puppets have been bought up from my shop. So I thought it would be fun to post another work in progress as I work to restock my shop along with a puppet tutorial I posted a while back.
You can purchase my puppet pattern here if you want to play along. I'll send it by email if you purchase it so it can be with you in minutes.

I'm making a red monster here. I think.
So far this is as far as I've gotten. I hope to continue with him today.  Here is his so far.

And I've changed my pattern and instructions from that of this original tutorial, but generally this is how I make them. Click on each photo to make it larger.





August 18, 2011

Puppet Pattern

It's been a while since I had a sale on etsy. I'm happy to have sent another puppet pattern to a happy buyer. This time to Ireland. PDF patterns are a easy gratification for the buyer. A buyer receives the pattern to work on within minutes! My puppet pattern is available here.
Puppets are as fun to make as they are educational to play with and children can be entertained for hours. Great for storytime when they're very young and fun playtime as children get older.

June 15, 2008

Murple Puppet Project Part Six


Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures of how I did these steps...

I sewed on Murples Feathery hair with a couching stitch (you come out from inside the puppets head where you want the hair to start, then come out and over the feathers and back into the head and out the other side you keep doing this until you have captured all the feather boas core, but be careful you don't catch up too many of the fluffy feathers... try to pull them out form under the thread as you go.)

Then I decided Murple needed a nose and ears. For the nose I cut out an egg shape out of felt pinched it together a bit at the small end and sewed it in place between the eyes. the whole nose isn't sewn down. I wanted it to stick up a bit.



For the ears, I cut out an oval and cut it in half. I then folded ear flat side into a little "w" shape and stitched them in place, then stitched them onto the puppet just below ans slightly behind each head dart.

I also decided Murple needed to have tonsils and a tongue so I cut out those from a deep red felt and slightly clued those onto her black mouth.

One last thing I did was add a line of black on her lower eyelids with a sharpie. I really wanted it to look like Murple had bags under it's eyes. hee, hee.

And that's Murple!
Now make up a story for your own puppet. Murple is off to an all-night Karaoke bar to show off his lovely singing voice. Too bad all those late nights have him developing a slight tick under his right eye... Makes him look a little crazy when he gets on the subway after his late night.

HAVE A BLAST!!!

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