Projects: In Progess or Ideas? What'choo Workin' On?

[DollyKim]

If it were me I'd look for a crochet pattern and cover it with crocodile stitch. With an armature inside it could be posable.

Or make a plushy but use a fabric with thick scale like sequins.

[Kattriella]

If it were me I'd look for a crochet pattern and cover it with crocodile stitch. With an armature inside it could be posable.

Or make a plushy but use a fabric with thick scale like sequins.

I thought about the sequin thing, and my obsessive brain violently rejected the idea. If wants me to basically create a poseable sculpture. QuQ

Basically, the idea is to create a poseable skeleton with jointed, sculpture hands, head, and feet inside of a stuffed animal, then attached the scales because I want them to be different sizes, like big scales on the belly, smaller and smaller scales tapering down towards the end of the tail, etc.

[WhiteDove01s]

I hate cutting fabric. I love sewing, but cutting fabric is such a chore!

Urgh, I agree with you. Cutting out the pieces is probably upwards of 50% of what delays most of my sewing projects (the remainder taken up by time and space concerns, and how I seem to have somehow recently misplaced all of my sewing needles. O.o) For a good while I was doing this thing where I was printing or tracing a copy of the pattern every time I wanted to sew something, and then I used diluted white/washable children's school glue (the kind that comes out with water even after it's dry) to actually glue those to the fabric, cut and sew it with the paper still attached so the pieces were all nicely stiff and easy to work with, and then washing the paper off. But I got concerned about how much paper I was going through that way and ran out of glue and somehow doing it just wasn't a thing I resumed doing. I've also thought of getting a circular cutter and mat, but haven't budgeted for one yet. Current funds are all alloted to other things at the moment. I DID use some of the latest covid check to buy a cheap-ish 'sewing tools set' that has some tailors chalk and some of those wash out markers and such for marking patterns on paper. I'm hoping they help a bit.

So yeah, now I've added "rideable dragon for my 1:6 scale crew" to my to-do list once my craft room is ready, so that's lovely. As if the gryphon with the hand applied feathers and the poseable beak and toes wasn't going to be enough of a challenge!

That reminds me of when I had to talk my brain out of making a 1/6 scale rideable Bantha. Which didn't so much work in terms of completely talk out of so much as provide multiple reasons to put it very low on the projects priority list - no room in my room for a shaggy thing the size of a footstool, don't have the right fabric, etc. Current plan if I ever do it (easier since it's plush) is to make one with a zipper or velcro opening so I can unstuff it and fold it flat when it's not needed, and then have it basically share stuffing with any other similarly large furry things I might want to make and they could all share a drawer when not in use.

Hmm... If you dodn't mind the scales being printed on instead of sewn, and have some decent graphic art talent, I'd suggest making it up as a "cut-and-sew" project on Spoonflower. You could definitely place different size scales on the different parts as you wanted that way. And once it was printed on the fabric for you, you'd just have to cut it out and put it on the armature, adding the sculptured claws and head. If you made one that had stuffed claws and head so the pattern would be complete by itself as well, and it turned out well, you could even mark it to sell afterward and possibly make a few bucks.

[Jobee]

Today I cut out fabric for some new clothes for Sunny. I'm remaking her leggings and t-shirt with new, better fabric. I cut the fabric for two t-shirts because I have ideas to draw a sunflower on one and just a cartoon sun on another. I was gonna do more, but... today happened.

[Kattriella]

WhiteDove's idea sounds nice, but it just wouldn't work for what I'm doing. I'm working on a super detailed, realistic set of fantasy elements for a story I've been working on for years, and printed fabric just isn't going to give me the right look. Plus, I need practice for the absolute GIANT in comparison version I want to eventually make of the much larger dragon from the story . . . And by much larger, I mean Waika (the smaller one) might stand around 16-18 inches tall beside my 1:6 scale crew. Opalescence would be 3-4 FEET tall in comparison, which would be a massive project regardless. I'll probably use heat shaped craft foam for her scales, rather than mostly polymer clay like I plan to do for Waika, to not only save cost, but also my sanity.

[DollyKim]

It looks like they still make Friendly Plastic and that comes in dragon colors.

[Tam I am]

Or ... what's that stuff, warbla?

[WhiteDove01s]

Opalescence would be 3-4 FEET tall in comparison, which would be a massive project regardless.

And that reminds me of why I tell my brain I cannot ever have a 1/6 scale Krait Dragon.

[Kattriella]

Opalescence would be 3-4 FEET tall in comparison, which would be a massive project regardless.

And that reminds me of why I tell my brain I cannot ever have a 1/6 scale Krait Dragon.

One thing about it, if I ever actually get a chance to make Opal, she'd be one hell of a talking piece.

[SetsunaKou]

Just finished a set of Mary & Matthew 1/6 portrait dolls from Downton Abbey! My sis made their outfits for me! I love them! Can't wait to take photos!