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Style: teddy
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Topaz is made of minky and custom dyed minky; there is ball jointed armature in the plush as well. Topaz stands at about 19 inches from the top of the head to the bottoms of the feet, 23 inches including the ears. The face, and some markings on the body are machine embroidered and appliqued. This sweetheart is posable and can stand up on their own with support of the tail!
PHEW! This little one was a handful! ^^;
So starting off with fabric picking; I did have to dye 2 colors. The two brownish/grey colors were dyed but I kept running into issues with the dye running after washing. :/ A few extra washes helped immensely but some of the color did end up fading a bit. This wasn’t too huge a deal since it felt like the colors were at least close enough, but I’m still a bit said that I couldn’t get the gorgeous colors I was anticipating after the first washes.
Before all of this, patterning was going on. I attempted to avoid handsewing as much as possible since i was expecting to have to do a bit of that with the gems. In the end, I did have to remake the front of the neck floof on the front since it came out a bit small. I do wish i could have had a better understanding on how the shape the back a little better, but oddly, I just couldn’t figure out HOW to make the back puff up as nicely as the front, mainly how the join the front and back at the side for a more seamless transition. I do absolutely LOVE how the front looks though!
On the HUGE plus side, I was able to recycle Andi’s longer neck pattern for Topaz! The original plan was to keep them the same proportions as a regular teddy, but I think the longish neck to make room for the floof adds a nice touch! ^u ^ More changes were planned, but were scrapped because it wouldn’t have had the chubby teddy look.
This is the first teddy I’ve added armature to, and I’m in love! They feel more like a soft action figure, but I absolutely love how poseable they are! There was a tiny issue with getting the tail length right, but that was knocked out and resolved fairly quickly.:)
Embroidery took no time at all! But I did have to rehoop the front body since I missed 2 markings on each sides of the legs (the small ones closer to the middle of the legs). Even embroidering the gems wasn’t too much of an issue. To be honest, all the gems on the tail are basically 3 different sizes with a vaguely similar design. All I really did was make one design of each side and just shift around the shines and line detailing! ^^;
Handsewing took a WHILE; I think at the end it was 12 hours. But it was well worth it! I dont recall how long it took to handsew the claws, but it’s also up there! On the bright side, the claws were sewn together using my embroidery machine, all i had to do was cut and handsew. ^u ^
Overall, this sweetheart took a while, but wow. I genuinely impressed myself!
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Category Crafting / General Furry Art
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1280 x 1034px
File Size 292.6 kB
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