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brighton on brighton action! Actually, I just wanted to see how the two of these guys looked together. Gives you a better idea of scale, as well - mini is just over two feet tall, eartips to tailtip.
And he's obviously made out of exactly the same fur, leftovers from rebuilding the head and adding new:brighton:'s Dire Cave Dog (dinosaur-ish) tail.
brighton on brighton action! Actually, I just wanted to see how the two of these guys looked together. Gives you a better idea of scale, as well - mini is just over two feet tall, eartips to tailtip.And he's obviously made out of exactly the same fur, leftovers from rebuilding the head and adding new:brighton:'s Dire Cave Dog (dinosaur-ish) tail.
Category Photography / Fursuit
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File Size 155.7 kB
The neck is the only part we had trouble deciding what to do. 
matrices left the entire neck stump on her Malameux plushie, where I cut all of Brighton's off down to the shoulders. It's not terribly obvious, but here's a picture of them side by side. Malameux's head sits about an inch and a half higher than Brighton's.
You have three options with the head/neck connection. You can joint the head by putting the female half of the joint in the head, and the male half in the neck/torso, and leaving a small hole in the back of the head to complete the closure (on Brighton, I actually used a boxknife to cut a hole just for that purpose, then sewed it up through the fur afterwards), or you can reverse the orientation of female/male joints, and leave a hole somewhere in the body to connect it that way. On both of these choices, you will want to use a long needle to run a purse stitch/running stitch along the entirety of the seam and draw it closed (similar to the way purses like these close, if this helps you visualize it) Alternately, if the purse stitch method is too frustrating, you can sew in a little disc of fabric into the head hole, cut a hole in that, and use that as place you feed your joint through. If you went with that technique, I'd use the same fur your head is made out of, just shaved down pretty short (3/8") so the neck joint didn't become a matted mess of fur over time.
Finally, you can just say "screw it" and don't joint the head, and use the neck stump to slide into the head hole, and then whipstitch it into place along the edge of the head/neck connection. The pattern was originally designed without head jointing in mind, but we both were able to pull it off with our own methods of fumbling until we got results.
matrices left the entire neck stump on her Malameux plushie, where I cut all of Brighton's off down to the shoulders. It's not terribly obvious, but here's a picture of them side by side. Malameux's head sits about an inch and a half higher than Brighton's.You have three options with the head/neck connection. You can joint the head by putting the female half of the joint in the head, and the male half in the neck/torso, and leaving a small hole in the back of the head to complete the closure (on Brighton, I actually used a boxknife to cut a hole just for that purpose, then sewed it up through the fur afterwards), or you can reverse the orientation of female/male joints, and leave a hole somewhere in the body to connect it that way. On both of these choices, you will want to use a long needle to run a purse stitch/running stitch along the entirety of the seam and draw it closed (similar to the way purses like these close, if this helps you visualize it) Alternately, if the purse stitch method is too frustrating, you can sew in a little disc of fabric into the head hole, cut a hole in that, and use that as place you feed your joint through. If you went with that technique, I'd use the same fur your head is made out of, just shaved down pretty short (3/8") so the neck joint didn't become a matted mess of fur over time.
Finally, you can just say "screw it" and don't joint the head, and use the neck stump to slide into the head hole, and then whipstitch it into place along the edge of the head/neck connection. The pattern was originally designed without head jointing in mind, but we both were able to pull it off with our own methods of fumbling until we got results.
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