Ahhh...ZOMBIES!
The Zombie mice seem to be getting great reviews. The people I've showed them to all liked the item and weren't afraid to pick them up and check them out. I may have a really nice niche market item here!!!!
I went with a white felt belly, brown fake fur napped fabric for the top of the body, but it's a very short nap more like upholstery fabric, and brown felt ears. They get a rattail cord tail on them and the eyes are white pearls. I wasn't sure if two the same size are better or one small one and one large one. The preferences have been 50/50 on the eyes so I'll probably make some of both.
The zombie part comes in with the red felt on one side of the face between the seams (cut jaggedly with a scissors tip) and the mass of 'stuff' sticking out the other side of the body on that seam line. I did a piece of folded white felt for the ribs that I sliced into lengths after the mouse was stuffed, and a piece of red felt under that also sliced up after sewing in AND about 10" of wildly textured hairy red yarn wound 4 times around my fingers and then tied in the middle with a knot and sliced open so the strands look like guts. The knot is sewn in the seam as well so nothing pulls out. It splays out really nice.
The mouse is life sized, only partially stuffed so it's sort of flat, and the brown is a realistic color so they do look like real mangled mice. I cut a piece out of one ear on each one also, trying a notch and a half circle. Either one looks good but the notch leaves a more solid structure on the ear so I'll likely go with that in the future.
Next........possibly Zombie Hamsters! Fear The Fur!
I went with a white felt belly, brown fake fur napped fabric for the top of the body, but it's a very short nap more like upholstery fabric, and brown felt ears. They get a rattail cord tail on them and the eyes are white pearls. I wasn't sure if two the same size are better or one small one and one large one. The preferences have been 50/50 on the eyes so I'll probably make some of both.
The zombie part comes in with the red felt on one side of the face between the seams (cut jaggedly with a scissors tip) and the mass of 'stuff' sticking out the other side of the body on that seam line. I did a piece of folded white felt for the ribs that I sliced into lengths after the mouse was stuffed, and a piece of red felt under that also sliced up after sewing in AND about 10" of wildly textured hairy red yarn wound 4 times around my fingers and then tied in the middle with a knot and sliced open so the strands look like guts. The knot is sewn in the seam as well so nothing pulls out. It splays out really nice.
The mouse is life sized, only partially stuffed so it's sort of flat, and the brown is a realistic color so they do look like real mangled mice. I cut a piece out of one ear on each one also, trying a notch and a half circle. Either one looks good but the notch leaves a more solid structure on the ear so I'll likely go with that in the future.
Next........possibly Zombie Hamsters! Fear The Fur!
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