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Labouriously sewing in the pads and clipping parts together whilst watching Adam Savage.
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Puffy Paw construction Pt 2 Combo of machine sewing (claws, toes) and hand sewing (insetting claws) resulting in complete top paws. The bottoms are ready for the beans and pad to be inset into the paw.
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Puffy paw construction Pt 1 Made some puffy paws for my SIL for christmas. These were all the pieces for the main paws. I used @Kloofsuit paw pattern as I’ve never constructed paws ‘properly’ before and didn’t want to make my own pattern just yet. Previously I’ve built paws over gloves using foam.
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My fur order from @Bartfeld arrived!
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FINISHED THE FEETSIES! The main toes are hot glued onto the shoes; you need to glue down each toe seperately starting with the middle toe so that everything is even and conforms to the shape of the shoe. The hallaces I threaded 3 bits of craft wire through all layers of foam/glue/fabric strips (using a…
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Sealed the feet in plastidip before painting with a mid gray base layer and a black top layer, wiping off excess paint as I went to get that mottled skin look. I’m sealing the paintwork using some flexible clear gloss art spray which’s going to take a week to dry between layer.
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I started work on the leggings using the same pattern as before by using the french seam method this time around.
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More work on the feetsies. Skin details are done using puffy paint; this is glow in the dark which dries clear as you can see from the sections I did first. The bottle says dries in 24 hours, but some of these blobs are super thick and I’m guessing will need at least a week…
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Sculpting all the vanes on the tail feathers. This really hurts the fingers!
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Started work on the birdie feetsies. I spent hours (of frustrated) experimenting to get to this point as #rah-bop ‘s tutorial pattern didn’t really work with my BigW shoes for this project. Eventually figured out I needed to squish the shoe fabric top down to get an accurate pattern outline for the foam to sit…