I chose familiar for my blog as I create many plush creatures. To start this one I searched for strange creatures, then reptiles until I found a site that had one I liked. In this case I decided to base a creature off the bipes piporus, or mexican mole lizard, a type of lizard that has two front legs. I decided to change up the creature to have four eyes, horns, sharp teeth, and a furry neck for my design so I sketched it out. I then edited it further to give 1/4" seam allowance, and created the rest of the body such as the arms. After I had each part I cut it out of the fabric and began to hand sew the areas that would be hard to do on the machine. Once I had the hand sewing mainly done I began to sew the body together using my sewing machine. I chose pink fabric due to the animal's pink color being interesting, and the fact that I had a lot of it, though I chose the fleece I did to go with the faux fur, the black body is because pink and black is a really neat color combination. I chose fleece because it's cheap, I have many colors, and it's easy to work with, and the faux fur was chosen to create the furry texture for the neck. Once it was sewn together, I had to turn it inside out and stuff the plush. To finish the plush I decided to make the eyes, and use a technique called thread sculpting, which involves putting thread through the plush to have the thread tighten the shape, to refine the shape of the head. I chose green thread for the eyes so that they stood out against the other colors. Once again I fell that my main technique is to create it piece by piece. I also wound up making a different mouth using thread sculpting then I originally wanted to, and decided against the horns. Admittedly this is because I forgot about both of these features, so one thing that harms my creativity is when I forget things. My main creative idea for plush creatures is to find an animal, or animals to base the creature off then make the side view, afterwards I trace the side and head a bit to create gussets to make it more 3d, and sometimes, such as for this plush leave a hole in the pattern to attach arms. Also running out of materials as I ran out of one green thread so I had to use a slightly different color. It also wound up much cuter then I was going for. Wojcik, Jonathan. “Top 10 Most Interesting Lizards.” Toptenz.net, 7 May 2014, www.toptenz.net/top-10-lizards.php.
(Citation for where I found out about the mole lizard.)
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