JoshPrime Makes Stuff

Hey Reader! There are so many projects finishing lately. I have been really busy and need to start up some new stuff very soon. I have a few ideas up my sleeve. I have been pretty blocked with new crafting projects that speak to me, but I have a new puppet project I want to tackle and another quilt. I really need a whole room to store all my various crafting projects. Then I would probably want to separate that by craft. Really I need a craft house. House hunting aside, it is time to wrap up construction on the dragon puppet! This project has been fraught with issues, but its finally time to get it complete. As you can see, sewing the body together was pretty simple. The head was tough but the body was really just a rectangle of fabric that I tapered into a small tail. I will need to fill this puppet's insides with fluff to really make sure the body looks like it has some weight to it. The solid color wasn't working for me - and not just because it isn't green like ...

Hey reader, I saw this awesome puppet by Tiny Badger and wanted to try my hand at making something similar. I was preparing to go to a convention and thought that it would make a great prop for the floor. Before I packed my bags and headed to WhedonCon to talk about running the coolest podcast , I would have to make sure my puppet was ready to go! Pictured: Definitely not a cat I have been talking about carving a foam head for a while now. Since this puppet's head was going to have a much different head shape than anything I had made before, it was time to give this a try. This is one of those things that I just dove into without a tutorial. I just found my block of foam (that I got inside my packaging materials for a 3-D printer a few years ago) and started carving. I looked a few pictures of cat and leopards for reference. I thought a cat-like dragon would be cool. Unfortunately, you would certainly not know it to look at my carving. This is apparently what I think cats...

Hey readers! Last time we were hanging out together, I had just dyed by hands blue. Also a puppet, but mostly my hands. With hands that look like they were on a Gargamel hosted cooking show, I set out to sew together the puppet. You have seen me assemble a few heads now, and this one wasn't all that different. The triangle shaped mouth that I hoped would give the puppet a totally unique look really isn't all that noticeable. It is always interesting to me the things I spend a lot of time on that are just invisible in the finished product. It's ok, I will try again on a fleece puppet and see if that makes a difference. Learning! This head looks really odd with nothing attached to it, including its body. It doesn't have enough detail yet to look like an actual head, so its just this totally weird furry thing with a black void in the center. This angle is kind of horrifying. I am finding myself staring at it like it has some sort of pull over me. I need to move on. ...