Soft Sculpture And Stuffies

A site to talk about my soft sculpture and stuffed toy creations, paper doll artwork and tarot card art in progress. All are creative endeavors for selling at Medieval events.

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Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

I'm a science fiction fan from wayback, artist, soft sculpture toy designer and cat owner.

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Old Pattern, New Request

Figures, once I discontinue a product someone remembers it and wants it back.  This time it was tacos as a cat toy.  I don't even have the pattern for that anymore, it's been over 6 years since I made them last time but given all the 'felt food' patterns out there I just googled it and clicked on 'images' and looked through what's being sewn now and did up a pattern with scratch paper again.

One of my old so-called mistakes way back when we were maybe doing our second Pennsic War was I'd cut a circle out of gray velour and a smaller circle to act as a belly for making hamsters as cat toys.  Well, I did it from memory but when I sewed and stuffed the things they were these giant bloated baseball sized creatures with tiny ears and tiny bead eyes.... I had maybe 20 of them and figured I'd just put them out and sell them, once they're gone then I make the right sized type.

I stuck a dumb name on them -- Giant Parisian Hamsters.  Do you know HOW MANY PEOPLE asked me for years if I had any more of the Giant Parisian Hamsters?????  They were a mistake that sure made an impression.  Since they were all hand sewn at that time I didn't do up any more, I stuck with the smaller version both to save on stuffing and space, they really were too large for a cat to play with.  But wow, everyone thought they were fun.

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