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Life Sized Book Rocky Plushie Guide/Walkthrough Part 1 - Main Body
So I made a life sized Rocky plush and I thought I'll post a walkthrough/guide to how I made him!
The specific sizes listed are suggested, I based them off of Rocky's description in the book to make him as size accurate as I can, but you can definitely make him even bigger or smaller. So feel free to adjust the sizes as needed! :D
Part 2 is not out yet and will be about his shirt. I will update this post the moment its available with a link to it.
Now without further ado, let's get into the guide!
Colour Coding:
- book canon used
- personal choice
- mathematical conclusion
Materials Needed:
- Sewing machine (to save time but you can just sew it all by hand)
- Thread and needle for sewing by hand (I used an embroidery needle and thread because of the fabric I used)
- about 2 meters of fabric of your choosing (if using my measurements)
- Plush stuffing
Measurements Used:
NOTE: when cutting the fabric, leave a 1-2cm margin for sewing
Top Main Carapace (1x):
- Pentagon shape
- 40cm widest point (Rocky is 45cm wide in the book but due to the stuffing, his top carapace needs to be a bit smaller)
- 25cm sides
Sides Main Carapace (5x):
- Trapezoid shape
- 25cm upper side attaching to the Top fabric (same length as the sides of the top fabric)
- 13,5cm lower side attaching to the bottom fabric
- 22cm Height (Rocky's carapace is around 22cm tall in the book)
Bottom Main Carapace (1x):
- Pentagon shape
- 22cm widest point
- 13,5cm sides (same length as the lower side of the Sides Main Carapace)
Top Vent (1x):
- Pentagon shape
- 16cm widest point (2.5 times smaller than the widest point of the top main carapace)
- 10cm sides (2.5. times smaller than the sides of the top main carapace and 4 times smaller than the widest part of the widest point of the top main carapace)
Vent Sides (5x):
- Rectangle shape
- 10cm long side (same length as sides of top vent)
- 3cm short side
Upper Arm (10x):
- Rectangle shape
- 20.5cm long side (whole leg is 50.5cm, because Rocky is described to be around the same height as a labrador, which get around 50cm tall, split the legs up however you like)
- 12.5cm short side (I made the diameter of the leg 8cm, and since the leg is basically a tube, the fabric has to be cut to the circumference of the "circle", so you have to calculate the circumference based on the diameter you choose for your arms and then divide it by two and use that for the short side. Also, the circumference is equal to the upper side of main carapace side piece. :D)
Lower Arm (10x):
- Trapezoid shape
- 30cm Height (because the whole leg is 50.5cm long)
- 12.5cm upper side (same length as the short side of the upper arm)
- 9.5cm lower side (more math! :D since his lower arm narrows towards his foot, I chose a smaller diameter for the lower side. This diameter will also be the diameter of the middle of the foot. Calculate it as seen above.)
Foot (10x):
- 9,5 length of claw from middle of foot (same length as lower side of the lower arm)
And that's it for the patterns!! :D
Now that we got the math out of the way, let's get sewing B)
Sewing Main Carapace:
Sew the Top, Sides and Bottom of the Main Carapace together. I used a sewing machine for this.
Don't connect the sides together yet and only connect the bottom to one side for now. It'll make the next steps easier (I didn't do that Dx don't make the same mistakes I made)
Sewing Vent and Connecting It:
Sew the Vent sides to the Main Vent (We will sew them together soon)
But first, embroidery!
I just used a pen to mark the spots and made them a tear drop shape around 2cm away from the edges. Any shape works really.
Close up it might look a bit messy (didn't use an embroidery frame cause the fabric was too thick) but from further away its barely noticeable.
Next up, sew all the side together! (this part I sewed by hand)
And then go back to the main Carapace and cut a hole in the middle of the top carapace fabric around the same size as the Vent.
And sew it onto the main carapace (ignore the leg already being sewn in the image, it made things a bit harder to sew and could have been done later)
(I sewed the Vent to the carapace by hand)
Sewing Legs:
Cut a hole into half of the feet fabrics and pair them up together with the "non-holed" ones.
Then, sew the feet, upper arms and lower arms together in pairs so that the feet create a sort of pillow and the "arms" a tube each. (I sewed those with a sewing machine)
Stuff the feet with plush stuffing before sewing both parts of the arm to them.
Personally I stuffed the segments as I sewed them together by hand.
Connecting the Legs and Finishing up the Plushie:
Line up one of the legs with two wall sides of the carapace so that the leg is at the top of seam. Then sew it together so that the seam of the leg is also on the inside of the plushie. Do that for all sides until the "walls" are closed off. (from here I sewed every by hand)
Flip Rocky over and stuff him with plush stuffing to your liking. If you want to make the shirt for him (which will be the part 2 to this post) you might need to understuff him for now, so that he manages to slip into the shirt without any issues.
Afterwards sew up the bottom to the sides and BOOM!
YOU HAVE YOURSELF A BOOK ROCKY!
If you have any questions about the progress feel free to send the questions into the comments, my inbox or in my DMs. I will do my best to answer all the questions as best I can and add anything I might have missed! ^^
Credit: @8roadsigns for helping me with calculating the legs and @josephyarn for emotional support. Love you guys!! <3
people who wanted to be notified of this post: @doctorfurbenstein ; @torchbug-dragon
Grace finds a phone tucked in a random maintenance hatch a couple years into the Erid trip and starts laughing so hard he's crying because the pictures and videos folder is full of Vat shenanigans.
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Shapiro drowning in Dubois’ EVA suit. Dubois with Shapiro's suit taped to him and her helmet balanced on top of his head
Grace looking at the camera confused while the core time circle around him like the one girl surrounded by five guys meme
Stratt reclined on a couch looking demure with a coffee mug and using Grace's legs as a lap board for her tablet. Grace is dead asleep, obviously snoring with his mouth wide open and covered in reports. His glasses are on Stratt's head.
Carl walking by the camera with Grace thrown over his shoulder. Grace is visibly pleased and yapping.
Illyukhina walking by the camera with Grace thrown over her shoulder. Grace looks vaguely ill.
Yao passionately doing karaoke with each of the core staff members.
Lamai asleep on a prototype coma bed.
Steve Hatch maternity shoot with the Beatles.
Grace and Dimtri using a centrifuge to make butter.
Grace and Dimitri getting yelled at by Lokken for using a centrifuge to make butter.
Dubois carrying Grace and Shapiro under each arm to the cafeteria. They all are talking like this is a normal occurrence.
Yao hanging upside down from a simulator that glitched with a straight face while Illyukhina is crying laughing on the floor below him.
Compilation video of the world's greatest minds dropping tools, tripping, and running into the glass walls.
Videos of the astronauts defeatedly drifting away from the mock ship in the buoyancy tank after losing their grip. The others are dramatically reaching out for them.
Redell teaching the Russians about New Zealand bombing dives in the training pools.
Shapiro, in formal wear, standing next to a slideshow titled “How I Cloned and Replaced the World Leaders”
Dubois - “My Alien Seduction Tactics"
Grace - “Middle Schooler vs Scientist”
Dimitri - “Using the Incorrect Equipment for Correct Results"
Hatch - “Yoko Ono: First Contact?”
Lamai - “How Not to Use a Coma Robot”
Lokken - “Grace is an Idiot”
Leclerc - “The Ice Age and You”
Stratt - “Things I DO NOT Have Time For”
Carl - “Securing a Home Depot for Idiots”
Yao - “Worst Times to Make a Joke”
Illyukhina - "Benefits of Vodka in Space”
Reddell - “What I Did in 1989”
Illyukhina passed out on top of Dmitri (also passed out) surrounded by a minefield of bottles none of which are for alcohol.
Leclerc looking upset and holding a penguin plushy.
Horrible mishmash of memes from all over the world plus some homemade memes of various quality.
I think my brain was playing some word association game with this one but subnautica au anyone??
Grace is a scientist working with Alterra (unfortunately) and the only survivor of the Aurora crash, but finds Rocky who also crashed here while trying to investigate a distress call coming from the planet :)
An upcoming patch to Deltarune will be making Susie fucked up and evil. In a twitter thread discussing these changes, Toby Fox has stated "FUCK YOU!!!!!! !!!!!!"
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