becoming marketable (plushie)

i want to make a fumo doll

sam plushie 3

i don’t own any fumos

sam plushie 4

i just like how they look

base-rom_019

there are multiple patterns out there

doolittle found this one:

i ended up going with this one because it was more-immediately printer-ready (i hate printers):

FumoPatternV1.1y-1.pdf (3.9 MB)

finished cutting out pattern the other day:

and today i finished cutting out all the pieces:

(using some felt for this project because it’s what we have on hand, and i’m not interested in purchasing fancier fabric until i know i can do this)

there’s a wealth of tutorials out there. vaguely following this one:

realizing right now (just looking at that thumbnail) that i should have probably done the embroidery work for the face before cutting the face piece out (i’m sure i’ll be able to work around that though ( ← unfounded optimism))

posting this thread in an attempt (hopefully not vain) to keep myself on-pace

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godspeed!!

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since you’re using felt you won’t need to embroider the face with a hoop, should be fine

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Real Genuine Fumos :tm: appear to have fully embroidered eyes, which I know I wouldn’t have the patience for

the tutorial above had instructions to embroider just the outlines of the eyes, then cut out some felt pieces to size and hot glue them in. i did not feel good about that approach (not a fan of hot glue tbh)

i found this general face-sewing tutorial (with insipid music) not made by a complete nerd and thought it’s approach seemed more sound. it cuts out felt pieces for the eyes and sews them in place first, then embroiders the highlights and such:

in retrospect i should have probably followed the video’s example of using a marker and a glue stick (to keep the eyes in place), tho the pins seemed to have worked well enough so idk

anyhow, after i cut the eyes out i did a basic sanity check to see if it would look okay:

in progress shot. i was kind worried at this point:

but it turned out okay enough:

:colonthree:

the sclera (or are they just highlights here?) are triangular instead of circular because i was having too much trouble poking through both layers of felt while embroidering for some reason, and decided to take some ~artistic license~ to make things easier for me

anyhow, if you look at the back here, you can see me improving in real time (CW: plush gore):

i wasn’t expecting to be done with this tonight, but i guess listening to Jeffgerst the Man do his NES Science can be that soothing

anyhow, i’ve been using livesplit to try to keep track of how much time i’ve spent on this so far. i figure with some more experience i’d probably be able to get to this same milestone much more quickly

image

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head assembled:

interior shot:

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biblically accurate fumo:

every piece is now sewn to at least 1 other piece

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just be sure to inscribe the tree of life on the inside before you sew her up

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now that you mention it, i have been thinking of putting some holy writ into her when i get to the stuffing step

granted, i’m still a few steps away from that:

still need to stich the butt, the legs and crotch, a couple darts on the head i neglected, and the neck, then stuff it all and ladder stitch the back

oh, and make clothes and hair

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got her all sewn together

she has a wire skeleton for a slight amount of posability:

:3c

:colonthree:

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did a dangerous thing. i made pants without a pattern:

the fact that this doll is naturally in a sitting posture made this significantly tougher than it needed to be. i’m not the biggest fan of how it turned out, but it works well enough

(yeah i know i still need to hem the legs)

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kinda wish i had had the spoons earlier to get more done today, but i got that done at least:

not perfect, but, eh, none of this is

i found some fabric for the shirt. my current plan is to cut out some marginally larger torso pieces from the plush pattern, then sew them together and cut them up properly

the Canonical shirt design is something like this (front, rear, interior front):

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i’m not sure how i’ll be keeping the front layer in place and whatnot, but i know for sure i’m not gonna include a tiny zipper (sorry)

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got off work early today and spent some time trying to make the shirt:

unfortunately, while my plan of reusing the torso pattern seemed sound, i apparently didn’t scale things up large enough:

the arms don’t fit through the holes and the doll’s neck is somehow 1.5 times bigger than i expected

a day’s work wasted v_v;


EDIT: i cut some things up (mostly around the neck) and think i have a usable pattern for Next Time

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okay, i was busy after work distracting myself, but i managed to return to the same basic point where i was yesterday:

i took this as an opportunity to make the back of the shirt a single piece (unlike the back of the plush)

the shoulders are long enough that i don’t think i’ll bother cutting out pieces of fabric for the sleeves. i think i’ll just flip the shirt inside out, sew the sleeves and sides of the shirt shut, and then cut off the excess and hem the edges

thinking that the neckline needs to be slightly lower (quite doable)

for the white edge thing i think i’ll just use some ribbon (TODO: check if we have any white ribbon in the house). i don’t think i’ll bother doing the thing where the collar is raised on one side though (fun fact: if i was nerdy enough to know how to do it, i’d have a 3D model of this character that used some portal rendering magic between her hair and the back of the head so that if you looked at it one way it would look the the high collar extended all the way around, while if you looked at it the other way it would look the the high collar did not exist (TODO: make a diagram to explain what i mean here))

still dunno what i’ll do for the buttons

good night, and may the vod of jeff gerstmann’s science bless my concentration tomorrow

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okay, i got the sides of the shirt sewn, and the sleeves hemmed:

(hemming the sleeves was incredibly obnoxious considering their size and all that)

after that i hemmed the bottom of the shirt:

this is starting to resemble something

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I don’t know anything about any of this but that’s adorable and looks very skillfully made.

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I love how much care I can see in this.

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I was getting tired of all the bald pics I’ve been taking, so I decided to skip ahead to doing the hair:

i’ll probably make a few adjustments, but i think this is a massive improvement

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slight adjustment to the hair, added the trim to the shirt, and tightened the waist on the pants

still don’t know what i’m gonna do for the buttons or how i’m gonna keep the shirt closed (that’s pretty much all that remains)

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it’s been a few days (i was helping build a shed), but i got the buttons sewn on the shirt.

i researched some options and felt like 4mm buttons would be a good size for this.

due to my irrational distaste for online shopping, i ended up going to a brick and mortar store that didn’t have exactly what i wanted, so i ended up with these “sew-on snaps”

the thing about them is that they’re not designed to have outwards facing caps, so i sewed some felt covers over them:

not ideal looking (i’d prefer 3 buttons vertically at this scale), but it’s Good Enough :tm: for me

at this point i consider this “done.” i timed myself for the first 30 hours until i accidentally hit some hotkey for livesplit that added all pause durations to the timer, which ballooned the timer to 190 hours, making it useless. in total, i’d estimate that this project took me 40-45 hours total, but if i were to use a sewing machine i could likely reduce that by a large amount.

anyhow, accounting for the cost of materials and labor, that’ll be $1000 dollars. any takers?

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