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Oh right, I'm currently working on a unicorn. This is the third iteration of the pattern.

I'm trying for relatively realistic. Must plushies have legs that are pretty round. Turns out horse legs are pretty not round. Also a lot of plushies don't have much any neck at all. Horses have a lot of neck.

This is more iterations than I wanted. Usually it only takes 2, and there is at least 1 more after this one. But this should produce a pretty good result. Something something about challenges producing creativity.

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Okay, kigu is done, time to start the next project.

Which I kinda feel guilty about it not being getting sewing patterns uploaded, but I've never really been too sure if people who are not me actually use patterns like that.

Anyway, next up is taking another old plushie and making a dream version of it, so softer, more detailed, and three times as big.

Although I am taking the mightyena to a convention, so I might get requests for the pattern and end up working on that instead. Although even being at something like that carrying around a plush like that, I don't really expect to find people who sew.

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Almost done, but there's only a few weeknights until the convention

I am looking forward to the day I actually have outfits already ready to go for stuff.

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Making a mightyena kigu and am finally ready to start sewing the pieces together. It's honestly kinda frustrating just how far into the project this actually is.

I'll post this pattern at some point too. But it's also kinda frustrating just how long it takes to digitize the patterns. And currently, it's the outfits where the interaction is, so first I have a ren faire outfit to make. And a steampunk outfit. Possibly a full fursuit too, although that's not something I should be wearing when I'm going to stuff on my own, so maybe not.

I do miss the zine/vendor stuff, but I'm not actually selling anything, so that's not something I'm going to be doing on my own. And that is what I had originally been putting the patterns together for.

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Having decided to take the plushies to stuff, I'm now working on making outfits that match them. I'm currently working on a mightyena kigu, which is pretty reasonable. But that's not the main mightyena outfit, I'm also working on a full outfit, shirt, pants, coat, and accessories. I'm going to sew everything myself, and I'm making the sewing patterns too.

I guess it doesn't matter if I go a bit overboard. I'm not trying to keep up with the latest thing and I'm not planning to do cosplay contests. These are not one time outfits. But adding outfits does reduce how many plushies I can get done in a year, which is annoying. Although that participation is a reasonable trade off.

But I'm not going to take the mightyena to the ren faire (it's outside and hot), so I still have the plushie and outfit to sew for that. With a due date this year. And the competing priorities is making me question what I consider a "small" project. (Which is something that only takes two full work weeks to finish. Although sewing is just kinda like that.)

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The mightyena is done, well doneish, now that I know how to trim faux fur I am going to clean up those lines too.

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I did not like putting an electric shaver anywhere near something I'd hand sewn, but that was the only way to get the fur lengths equalized and get the markings to show.

Still have a bit of hand sewing to do for the tail, but I'm almost to the main assembly step. (For the body, there's more hand sewing for the head.)

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Test head looks good. I think I'm good to proceed to making the final pattern without another test.

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fiber arts is really a laundering scheme for mathematics.

Since it has finally processed that steampunks are mainly interested in the clothes, I got fabric...

...to make matching outfits with a pokemon. And I'm very likely going to spend more time sewing the pokemon than the outfits.

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Mightyena head first draft

The body is done, getting close to a full pattern. This will probably take a couple revisions though.

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Okay, pretty sure this should work.

Figuring out a pattern from the paws has been a pain.

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I still don't have the scaling right somehow, but that's a mightyena paw, once I make the toes a little longer.

Also I have a seam to bring in along the top. Usually relatively straight lines are the way to go, but running a straight cylinder into the paw leaves a big lump right above the paw. Adding a big divit in the seam there gets rid of the lump.

Okay, pretty sure this should work.

Figuring out a pattern from the paws has been a pain.

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Took more tries than I'd have liked, but I have the measurements for the mightyena's paw. Still need to make, and test, the pattern though

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In a rather ironic twist, I now have supplies to make a bear out of what originally was a blanket.

This is about 3 1/2 yards, so not enough for a full size bear, but still enough for a pretty big plush.

Also I know Posh Pelts is supposed to be a real fur reference, but it so sounds like a corp name in a furry cyberpunk setting.

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