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c0lress asked: hi! where do you buy the fabric you use for your plushes (more specifically, the sylveon plush you sold to little-ninfia)?

the fabric i used for that plush is called minky, and i just made a new page explaining all about the fabrics i use and where i get them here because i’ve been getting this question a lot lately ;) 

(the top part is me talking in depth about my fabric sources, and underneath is just a list of all the fabric sources if you don’t want to bother reading about them ;))

Anonymous asked: Do you know/have any favorite plush-making tumblrs? I looooove plushes, even just photos and yours are so wonderful and inspiring, I was wondering if you knew more blogs like yours?

oh anon, cries into hands, i am SO TERRIBLE at networking and stuff like that. i can think of like… two or three plush artists off the top of my head and i only know the tumblr of one of them. idk why i’m so bad at this, maybe in the back of my mind i’m kind of like “well, i’ve reached a point in my plush making that i like what i do, now i need to get that way with my art” and then i just follow a million drawing-type art blogs. because really, when it comes to drawing well i’m like… question marks flying out of my head. BUT THAT’S A TERRIBLE WAY TO BE i really need to follow more plush blogs. so i kind of poked around, and here are all the blogs that i found that i do look at from time to time and go “wow dang it” but then i don’t remember who they are or anything. (a lot of them are MLP blogs)

thehauntedneedle (otherwise known as babylondonstar) (her plush are crazy inspiring cries into hands some more)

bubblerhapsody

plushplushtree

xsystemcrafts (they like wartortles too high five!)

loveandasandwich

missmonstermel

magnastorm (deviantart)

science0fficerspock

spaceplush

glacidea

radtastical

chelpanda

lobitaworks

(i’m just gonna edit this as i think of people b/c I KNOW I FORGOT SO MANY PEOPLE ;__;)

and there’s one blog in particular that i can’t for the life of me remember what it is, but i know she makes way rad like… people plush, and they’re rather large, and they’ve got kind of long noodly arms and legs so if you KNOW WHO I’M TLAKING ABOUT LET ME KNOW. 

and i know there are SO MANY plush artists i’m leaving out, probably a lot of which i’ve TALKED TO AT LENGTH BEFORE keeps crying into hands so like… let me know of any other plush blogs you know of?? or if you are a plush blog??

i think one other reason why i don’t follow a lot of them is that there aren’t a lot of solid plush blogs. i’ve noticed a lot of plush artists just have one blog for everything (which is totally cool keep doing your thing) but a lot of times i like following just art blogs more, especially when i’m like “I LOVE YOUR STUFF” but then the stuff they reblog is stuff i don’t like so i just tell myself i’ll check up on their art tag every once in a while and i forget forever or something. and then i end up following more 2D type art blogs because there are a lot more of those than there are plush blogs. 

so long story short:

• check out those guys they are great
• if you are a plush blog or know any other good ones let me know!
• i wish THERE WAS AN OFFICIAL PLUSH TAG like there is an illustration tag like wow how nice would that be?
• especially let me know of any *just* plush blogs you might know of, or link me to the plush tag on your/their blog, sometimes those are hard to find cries
• i like you all ur gr8.

actually i think i’m eventually going to stick this list as a page on my blog and just keep adding to it, partly to help myself keep track of plush artists and also for everyone else’s reference (of course)

Anonymous asked: Aww all the new plushes are gorgeous! <3 How did you make the jolly monster mane though, that looks really hard! It looks to have a bumpy shape I guess, but I don't understand how to draft a pattern for that? Thank you! ;u;

oh thank you! :>

and the trick to making lumpy hair like that is really the fabric, i made sure to get some really thick fuzzy stuff. usually i really hate working with that stuff, but with stuff like this it’s fine because i don’t need to get that detailed with it. 

basically all the pieces look something like this:

(ignore the fox showing through on the back, i’m being really low tech today and drawing on scraps and using photobooth haha)

so the biggest piece is the main back of the head piece. i sewed the spiky parts and left the rest of it open,and hand sewed it to the back of the head, then i sewed the smaller parts you see (2 or three of each) and i lumped some together for the bangs, and then made kind of sideburns and some extra pieces on the back of the head. then i stuffed the main back of the head part a little, and did a bunch of random stitches in it, making sure to pull them all tight so it looked dimpley. it’s definitely not a very exact process, and it really goes more into the realms of sculpting and less making an actual pattern/plan. 

hope that makes sense! ;)

also i have one other plush to post but the pictures turned out prETTY AWFUL and idk there are rumors that if you make a photoset and then edit it it also edits all the posts that were reblogged, but i just did that to a photoset and checked it and it seems like they didn’t change

and i don’t want people to be stuck with a crappy photoset on their blogs with awful too-saturated colors that look like instagram or something when tomorrow i’ll have a better version ugh. 

BUT I DON’T WANT TO LEAVE YOU WITH NOTHIN, MACKAROON so 

i mean look at those pinks my eyes are bleeding, thnx a lot camera.

i think this one and the horse one were the best ones, but i’ll probably re-watch the episode to see if there are any others i could use

i was kinda hoping the “channing” and the “i’m ready for you” would all be in the same frame with the guy on a horse, but i take what i can get. 

screenshotting while i’m trying to figure out this gif thing.

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i only ask because there was an episode of psych recently where the victim’s name was channing and there are a lot of great quotes i could use to my advantage, one of which was a hot shirtless guy on a horse saying something to the effect of “mrs. channing, i need you with me” or something i don’t remember exactly what he said. 

but yeah they said my name a thousand times and it was funny and also who doesn’t want a bunch of gifs that they can use to refer to themselves?

also i’m asking on here because more people follow me on this blog. i will pay you back by posting a bunch of plush pictures in a bit. 

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Anonymous asked: Hi Channing! :) I have a sewing tip Tuesday question! (Well 2 really!) You've made a lot of spiffy dogs recently (Daisy, Madison, Palette) and I was wondering it their head a normal 4 piece sphere w/ muzzle or do they have gussets too or something? I can't get my head around trying to draft a pattern for one! Also, when you sew on ears, do you put them into the head piece seams and sew them in, or do you hand sew them to the completed head? Thank you!! :D

i went over heads a couple weeks ago, here’s the link: http://sewgoods.tumblr.com/post/49856768481 

Daisy i made with just a teddy bear style head, with just the two side pieces and the gusset, and then madison and palette i made a kind of hybrid style, with each side of the head being two pieces, but also with a gusset. (i use that style when i want the sides of the head to be more rounded than just a teddy bear style, but i still want the head to be long like a dog instead of round)

i kind of drew out a picture of how i would draft that pattern in the link, but if there’s something about that that still doesn’t make sense, let me know and i’ll try to clarify ;)

and with ears i always just sew them onto the completed head, mostly because i don’t ever plan ahead enough to make a pattern for the ear before i start sewing the whole thing, and usually make them as an after thought XD it would probably be best if i started drafting patterns with seams that i can stick ears into because it sure is a lot easier! for some reason ears and tails are my least favorite things to do and i always put them off for as long as i can :B