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.

Sunday, January 31, 2016

New 'Pin' Attempt - Luna Moths

I've been wanting to try making one of those fabric moths that keep showing up online.  Most of those are done out of upholstery fabric. I wanted to do one with polar fleece and possibly felt on the back for stiff wings.  Luna moths and Silk Moths - like the Cecropian or Polythemus or Promethius Moths -- are my favorite but the Luna looks the simplest.
 
Plus I can get the right shade of green in both felt and micro fleece.   I liked the idea of making it life-sized and a search in images in Google gave me a good template to sketch from.  Most of the moths had their wings horizontal like this---
Image result for luna moth
 
But I liked the angled top wings better ---
Image result for luna moth
 
What I'm not sure about is if I should do this AS a pin (or even put a jump ring under the body so it can be safety pinned to a costume or hat) or turn it into a cat toy.  Only the body would be stuffed with catnip, and I'm not sure yet what to make the antenna out of. 
 
I was planning on making the top wings as one piece, and the bottom wings as one piece, sewing them together at the top center before adding the white/yellow furry body to it.  The markings - the eye spots - would be in felt, sewn on by machine.  Assembly on this is simple, the only hand done stuff is attaching the body and the eyes. 
 
 

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