Niece1 was asking me about how to dye a garment for her Halloween costume, and the conversation turned into a discussion about if I knew someone who could make her an Optimus Prime custom plush doll because what she wants doesn't exist. That's the problem when you're a 16-year-old girl who likes what's considered more of a boy thing! (I loved Transformers when I was a kid too, but the idea of any toys based on it besides figurines never occurred to me because that just wasn't a thing back in the '80s.)
Long story short, after she texted me a bunch of cartoon drawings from different angles that had wrong proportions ("his head is too big, but this is what I want" ) I looked at her Amazon wishlist because I remembered she had a handful of figurines on it.
So I bought this cute little guy who is basically the right proportions (legs just need to be a little longer) with the promise she will get him for Christmas after I use him to make a pattern I can enlarge to 18 or so inches tall. And the plush will probably be her birthday present in May.
#OptimusPlush
I spent the day priming things for paint and then I remembered to shoot a quick video. #SewingStudioBuild
I started cutting all the edges while Janet was away yesterday morning. When she got back after lunch, she pulled out a roller and started filling in. I'll put a pic below in the comments. #SewingStudioBuild
We broke for lunch and then came back with a portal ac unit plugged in to an extention cord from the house. Can't wait until they finished hooking up all the electrical and we have the mini split cooling the room for us - it was stupid humid today! #SewingStudioBuild
I draped a really rough half-scale ruffle tail for one of the debutant dresses Janet & I are making. I just eyeballed and freehand cut a scrap of (un-ironed) muslin in a spiral and pinned it to my little dress form to make sure it was long enough to reach from hem to waist. Then I marked the folds and traced it onto graph paper and cleaned it up. The graph paper makes it easier to copy at 200% and tape the pieces back together.
I'll transfer the enlarged frankenstein paper pattern to brown paper when I'm back at the studio tomorrow or Friday and then make it out of the real fabric.
#ruffle #fiestabuild
I made 2 of these valentine garlands. Found the tutorial via Instagram and thought it would be perfect to send to Ashley, my daughter in Oregon, and Madison, my birth daughter in North Carolina.
Pics are from Ashley.
