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All Nighter with Calvin's Hobbes

12/12/2022

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Photo and pattern by Seamster on Instructables at https://www.instructables.com/Stuffed-Hobbes-with-pattern/
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My son "commissioned" me to make a toy Hobbes as a gift for a friend of his. He sent me a photo of a crocheted Hobbes, but I don't know how to crochet. I said I could probably sew one. I thought I could find a pattern for a tiger and then adapt it as necessary, but instead I found a pattern for exactly what I needed, and it was FREE on Instructables!

It is a very nice pattern and was straightforward to put together. However, the creator, "Seamster," sewed all of his stripes on BY HAND except for the tail. While it does make for perfect stripe placement, it's insane and, ideally, one would figure out a way to machine sew ALL of the stripes on. For reals. I machined sewed the stripes on the tail and the arms and legs. I used a stich on my machine that looks like a whipstitch (#47 for future reference). I even found it worth unpicking the seams of the arms and legs to put the stripes on this way, which I had to do since I was following the pattern and only realized how easy it would be to machine sew after the appendages were sewn into their little sausage shapes. I should have unpicked the body, too, probably. It was a royal PIA to sew the remaining stripes on by hand and took for.ev.ah. I was up all night. 
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One disappointing consequence of sewing the stripes on the arms before the arms were attached to the body is that I didn't realize the top-most (shoulder) stripe was uniquely shaped; it's not a straight 3/4-inch stripe like the others on the arms, legs, and tail. It's curved so that the black covers all the orange up to the shoulder seam. I have a bit of orange. I looks fine but I do like the full coverage better. STILL, one could work out all of the stripe placements ahead of time and mark these on the pattern pieces so that the machine could do all the sewing work. I won't blame Seamster though because he did the most important work on the pattern and very generously shared his work with the world.

I didn't get the legs to come off the body in a way I wanted or liked. I didn't have time to start over though since I was rushing to get it done before my son returned to his house.

My husband ground down the buttons into the oval shape as Seamster did on his tiger.

I made my Hobbes a red scarf as suggested and shown by Seamster. Apparently, this is one of Hobbes's outfits.
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I also made a mask as suggested and shown by Seamster. Again, another of Hobbes's props.
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Here's a photo with both the mask and scarf. Seamster also made a nice tie and a pennant, but I didn't have time.
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Bunnicula Plushie

1/7/2017

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I cannot remember why I decided to make this plushie for my daughter. Maybe we were talking about books she loved in childhood, maybe her prodigious vegetable-eating habits got us talking on the subject of Bunnicula, or maybe it was something else. I know I saw a trailer for a Bunnicula series that has been made, but I think this plushie project predates the series. I made this plushie about a year and a half ago.

I searched online—isn't it hysterical and fabulous that I could find a FREE pattern for a vampire bunny plushie online??? I thought this was super cute. I found it on Instructables.com (not sure where originally, but yesterday when I was searching again for the source of the pattern). It is not Bunnicula per se, so I had to modify the design so it looked like him (her?).
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I didn't have the eye button things—plus would I ever find glowing red ones if I looked for them?—so I just embroidered the eyes, which I like.

I think it turned out great! My daughter loved it.
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Captain America Plushie

1/7/2017

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After making the Bunnicula plushie for my daughter, I wanted to make one for my son. He has a Batman plushie and possibly an Ironman plushie, and his next favorite superhero is Captain America (or was at the time). I searched online and found this great free pattern and tutorial from Katy at Wild and Wanderful.

I wanted the shape of the doll and head to be more like the Bunnicula plushie, so I just adapted the basic Bunnicula pattern using Katy's pattern for the details of Captain America's outfit.

I think it turned out super cute and my son says he likes it.
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