appledew: Jakkob is all set!Made for Lugidog on Twitter.This plushie is made of minky, custom h
appledew: Jakkob is all set!Made for Lugidog on Twitter.This plushie is made of minky, custom hand-dyed minky, fabric covered buttons and wiring for the hair flyaway. It sits at about 13 inches from the top of the head to the rump. The flyaway on top of the hair contains wiring and makes it poseable. None of the clothing is removable.PHEW! This sweetheart took a bit out of me! It feels like I may have overpatterned some parts (made some unnecessary patterning) but honestly I think it was unavoidable. ^^; The base body of this plush, including the wooly ruffles were patterned and are machine sewn into the plush. The only things that weren’t machine sewn onto the base is the front and sides of the hair, horns, and clothing (minus the wrist bands). Usually machine sewing takes me about a day, maybe 3 hours? This fella took closer to 10 hours!Actually, lets back track a tiny bit and revisit the over patterning bit.I started patterning and dyeing the minky for Jakkob at the same time. I dyed about 1/3 of a yard of minky, I believe. Looking back, it seemed like much less than that, but my measurements seemed about right. This is when overpatterning happened. I struggled to get the dye to stick, even with color intensifier. It seemed like I could only get this color, or dingy red brown. I settled for this color even though it felt a few shades too light, and that other color came out patchy and was just too dark. I double checked the yardage that I had and realized I had juuuust enough to make Jakkob, and (VERY LUCKILY) dyed another 13x20 cut of minky.Oooooh boy, my measurements were SEVERLY off at some point, or I missed some pieces because I definitely did not have enough minky dyed. I traced Jakkob’s reddish orange parts 4 different times to get everything to fit! At this point, I realized I messed up bad; I anticipated making Jakkob’s clothing removable to add a cute touch to them (but how is it possible to make a character this cute even cuter!) but scrapped the idea and revisited my pattern to salvage some of the minky.What isn’t seen is the belly under the vest is white; and the back of the head was remade to save minky. The back of the head ruffles/hair were patterned in a way to have it machine sewn and use only about ½ of the minky what was originally patterned. The front of the hair was also edited to use less minky; not a significant amount like the back, but definitely enough to use on other parts. In the end, I have absolutely NO left over minky aside from tiny unusable scraps. I truly was lucky. ^^; A HUGE emphasis to dye more minky than what you need because you never know what will happen!Moving on! Aside from the dyeing mess, everything else went smoothly! I had quite a bit of hand sewing to do, and it took me a while to get it all done!In the end, I was slightly bummed out that I couldn’t make the clothing removable, but I’m glad that Jakkob came out nicely. ^u ^He was an absolute joy to work with! <3_____________________More intimate WIPs can be found on my Ko-fi if you buy me a coffee!.. Actually I’ll take a water. :) https://ko-fi.com/appledewTwitter: https://twitter.com/AppleDew_Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apple.dewTumblr: http://appledew.tumblr.com/Furaffinity: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/appledewdeviantArt: https://www.deviantart.com/appledew -- source link
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