Description
Design Sizes
- The finished height of the puppet is 9” but with hat extended (stuffed or wired) it’s closer to 16” tall.
- Body/head circumference is 10 inches. To ensure your hand will fit – measure around your fist to be sure it measures less than 10 inches around the widest part.
Tools and Materials Needed
Tools
• Sewing Machine with fresh needle appropriate for your fabric choices
• Sharp fabric scissors, including a small pair for detail cuts on the feet and toes
• Utility scissors for cutting paper pattern and rigid mouth-plate
• Hemostats or other tool for turning and stuffing feet
• Long doll needle and strong thread for hand stitching (can also use fabric glue)
• Pins or clips to hold fabrics together while stitching or gluing
• Fabric marking pen or chalk
• Fabric Glue: Fabri-tac™ works well. Also, Surebonder® fine tip hot glue gun with their fabric glue sticks work very well for puppets. (you can also hand-stitch everything instead of glue)
Materials
• Fabrics:
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- Fleece or Luxe Fleece with some stretch: 1/3 yard for head/body, and hat
- Mouth Fleece: 2 pieces of black, pink, or red fleece for mouth, each 5” x 7” (13 cm x 18cm)
- Skin-tone Stretch knit: less than ¼ yard
- Two pieces 5” x 7” (13 cm x 18cm) for feet
- One piece 3” x 3” (8cm x 8cm) for nose
- (Optional) A scrap of non-fray material for the tongue (fleece, felt, scuba neoprene or fun foam will all work for the tongue)
- Faux Fur: 7” wide by 5” long (18cm x 13cm) for the beard. Mongolian or Crinkle fur which are long and curly have the best look and are used in these instructions.
• Lightweight Tear-away stabilizer such as Sulky® Tear-Easy™ (sold at fabric stores or online) less than one yard is needed.
• Rigid mouth-plate: 7” x 4” piece of rigid material such as cardboard, mat-board, foam-core, 1/8” rubber gasket (←my favorite!), piece of plastic storage tub, plastic placemat, or similar material to make the mouth firm and easy to move.
• A few inches of duct tape, bookbinder tape or similar for the rigid mouthplate
• Fiber fill stuffing for the feet
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