JoshPrime Makes Stuff

Hey Reader, I know I have talked on more than one occasion about how quilts don't make the best blog posts in the world. However, I am going to go a little more in depth into the making of this quilt, because I have learned a lot from my last two iterations . As you recall I am sure, I bought half a yard of pretty much every flannel they had at the fabric store during a massive sale a few months ago. I had big dreams of making a mismatched rag quilt that would be super cozy and warm - as well as being covered in some of the silliest patterns I could find. Cutting hundreds of squares using my cereal box pattern was getting harder and harder. Every time my hand slipped and I cut some of the cardboard I would have to either tape it up or just remember where the cardboard used to go. That definitely wouldn't fly on a traditional quilt, but rag quilts are a bit more forgiving. I really need a plastic square if I am going to keep making these. The cool thing is that I can c...

Hey reader! We have had so many puppet posts lately! This is going to be another one, except we are going to be doing something I haven't ever attempted before - vacuform eyes! I feel like a ringleader at a circus. Hold your gasps and those with weak dispositions should exit the blog now (That's not even a lie because the eyes look really creepy for a while). Mouth assembly was like most of my puppets where I used the foam head to guide the size and shape of the plastic and the velvet. I sewed in a strap for my hand as you have seen me do a few times. I added a bit of foam to the back of the head so that it would look more natural - if a blue furry dragon can ever look natural. Now for the really fun part, making the eyes! I have been working up the courage to try a vacuform eye for a while now. I have seen the crew on the SyFy series Faceoff use the vacuform to make awesome hand painted eyes for their custom makeup creations. I started by making a vacuform mold ...