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pheleon — How to make patterns- Lesson 1
Published: 2010-07-19 01:16:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 50979; Favourites: 972; Downloads: 498
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Since many people haved asked for my patterns, I decided that it's best to make a tutorial on pattern-making.This is the first lesson. Here is PART 2
Just to give you my two cents on patterns:
I share the same views as *BabyLondonStar
(please click on them to read what she has to say about it!)
In the end, I support creativity, and giving out a pattern for free may stifle it.
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Seriously! It's a good idea to use math to create patterns, makes it easy for those who are not into good ol' trial and error. 
You probably hear this all the time from your watchers/ fans but.... I really love your work and you're one of my inspirations to get into plushie making! Okay! I'll stop boring you now. 
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Hello.
I just started out making plushies. Some are either great and some are just poop. How did you make the eyes and the hair? I kinda get an understanding of the hair, but you make yours layered. And with the eyes, I assumed you could just cut out shapes to make the eyes, then glued them on. Yours don't look that way. I also use fabric paint and acryllics for other features.
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In case you're curious, I have other tutorials:
hair: [link]
eyes: [link]
Good luck with plushmaking.
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Wow, great. I've been looking on this kind of tutorial in the net for so long. ^^,and it was kind of you to make one. Can you please add more?
thanks
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I love the Godot, Ulquiorra and Wesker plushie
By the way, where did you get the fabric for the clothes of Wesker? I'm looking for a long time but I can't find it .
Thx alot for this tutorial.
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I was so lucky to find the fabric at my local fabricstore! Had I not been able to find it, I wouldnt have made the plush since my commissioner really wouldnt settle for anything less, lol. Its impossible to find online btw, so just keep looking back at your local store. I found it in the drapery section, so you may want to check that area too.
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Greetings ~
This is exactly what I have been waiting for! - ~ and thus far I am NOT disappointed.
I enjoy detailed tutorials and I am one for creative detail, the more detail, the better it will looks. ~ of course, that's dependant on the medium used, and what Character is being created, because in some cases Less is Best.
Awaiting the next parts...
Thank You!
RESPECTS!
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I'm glad you found it helpful
I totally agree; sometimes less is best with plushies. I'm a bit of a detail freak, so it's hard for me to simplify things sometimes, lol.
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I can relate to that as well as I also believe in that aspect...
Detail, just makes any creation ~ *POP*! ~ visually!!
Looking forward to those that you have planned to follow!
RESPECTS!
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Just one more quick question. Do you join the legs or do you make the whole body with the legs? are your plushie legs seperated from the body or are they joined? wb
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That question will be answered in the next lesson of my tutorial.
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I cant wait for the next tutorial. keep up with the great work.
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Thanks for this, it is alot of help
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This is so helpful! I like how you demonstrate what you do without giving too much away, it's a really handy teaching guide, rather than a tutorial per se. I really want to make character plushies too one day, and this kinda makes it look easier... though it still does look a bit complex, in my perspective, lol... I also couldn't agree more - your patterns ARE your line art, and just by this deviation I can see how much work goes into just getting the pattern for a certain plush alone.. 
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Maybe you should teach me how to make charms too.
yeah, I'm not the biggest fan of those step-by-step things since it becomes so rigid. (like, you had some troubles with people using your tutorials and then totally just copying your stuff without putting anything new!) So a teaching guide is more to my liking.
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Um, I already have like 3 tutorials.
Yeah... I should've done that, too. Oops.
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Naw, I mean the next time I go down to TO, we gotta meet up and exchange our knowledge of our craft.
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I'm not sure I understand what you mean... but okay.
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hi again. i know i sound stupid but i dont understand the maths part of the plushie. it says on one of the sketches that 48 = whole body then youve got 21/48? how does that work out in CM n such? thanks for the help. wb
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Yeah, it was really confusing because I was using the imperial system. The sketch was 3 inches high and I seperated them all in 1/16 inches...hence where the 48 comes from. It doesn't really matter what you use to measure the sketch because the important part are the ratios (example: 21/48).
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That's what i kinda don't get the ratio pat duh lol. 'silly me'. The Imperial System? So your saying the 1/3 plushie is 3 inches high? So the 1/16 inches = 48 centimeters. i kinda understand now. so the 21/48 = 21 cm out of 48 cm? am i kinda right lol? thanks for the help? wb please and thank you.
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No, the 1/3 is called a ratio. It can be 3" high, and therefore the head will be 1". Or, it can also be 6" high, and the head will be 2"...basically any size multiplied by 1/3 will give you the size of the head.
A sixteenth of an inch does not equal to 48cm. In one inch, there are 16 sixteenths, so in 3 inches, there are 48. The imperial system is weird (and I don't even know why I use it cuz I'm canadian, so we usually use metric). 21cm out of 48cm can indeed give you the right proportion, but if you want a different size, you would multiply any number by 21/48.
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Ahh right now i understand. Ok thank you for understanding and thank you for the great tutorial its helping me sort my plushies out lol. keep up with the great work. xx
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i like the tutorial. quite helpful. quite confused about how to figure out if the plushie is 1/3 how do you figure out the calculation for that plushie? like the head, torso, legs, arms and feet? What were you saying about the pattern you give for free to help others in need? Thanks for the help.
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E.g. If you want to make a 9" plushie, and the head is supposed to be 1/3 of its total height, you calculate 1/3 X9 = 3"
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Oooh, thank you for sharing! I'm new to plushie making so this gives me an insight on how one goes about creating a pattern. I'm currently sewing my first plushie using your mini plush pattern and I'm starting to see how the stitches gives the plushie its, er, shape. The head especially, so thank you.
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Cool. 
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And.... UHM...... This is really awkward for me to ask but....
A tutorial on how to make busty plushies? >//<
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LOL. I don't know if I'll ever do the busty plushie tutorial...mainly because I work with lycra, and it's kind of unpredictable every time because of the stretch.
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D'aww XD One day, I'll figure it out! |D
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Ooo, this is really handy!
I'm currently focusing on creating "creature" plushies, but I'll definitely keep this in mind when I get back to making humanoids ^____^
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This actually can be applied for creatures too (as in, making sketches of the creatures, and figuring out proportions). All of my examples are humanoid cuz that's mostly what I've been doing.
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That seems so... Obvious XD Silly me~
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Cool. Thanks for putting this up. It's good to have sketches of what you want done, before you make it. I used a template like this when making a paper doll assembly.
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Excellent. Simply excellent. Thank you very much for sharing
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I find it extremely interesting. I've been wanting to try sewing plushies because it allows for very different things (I'm a knitter), but I've been having trouble starting out.
While specific patterns are obviously your property, I would say some kind of template, while still your property, is also a super useful thing to have and experiment with.
My goal would always be to make my own plushes from scratch, though, with my very own pattern. But being able to look around at what the various artists use is definitely super useful, just like copying someone's art style helps figuring out your own.
I really like this template, as it shows how there isn't one true answer, you can figure out the proportions and just do it. The plushie will look different, but it won't look bad just because it's not like everyone else's.
I have to say my big problem has been turning things around 
Can't wait for the next parts of your tutorial!
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I totally agree that seeing another person's pattern helps in the learning process. I learned how to make plushie clothes (and also actual clothes) by turning my own clothes inside-out, and seeing how it's put together. I think the only good thing about something being free is that it'll fuel creativity... but I think that's sadly not the case all the time. If someone wants to make a plush and not further their style, I think it's fair to say that they should pay for the pattern. They sell clothes/costume patterns in fabricstores, so it's the same concept. For those that want the pattern as a learning tool, I have no qualms of posting it (which is the reason why I do have one of my patterns in my gallery).
Hmm.. It could be the fabric you're working with. Anything with a stretch will ease things. Thick less-flexible fabrics (like vinyl) will be the absolute annoying death. Also, anything that frays (and if your seam allowance is small) might tear when you turn it inside out. Using the back of a thin paintbrush or a chopstick can help to push it out. Also, you can use a thick needle to poke into the fabric and sorta pull out the fabric little by little (I don't know how to explain it, sorry!). But only do that for really small parts (like fingers) and when the fabric is strong enough to be damaged by the pull.
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Yes, I agree that pattern-making being a lot of work, it's only fair to pay for patterns to save you the trouble of making your own. I don't think it's fair to expect to be given patterns for free.
Thank you for your advice, I'll keep that in mind when selecting fabric and I'll make sure to have a bigger seam allowance, at least at first, and see if that helps
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One trick my family uses is to take a straw and a pencil. Stick the straw on the inside of the inside-out thing. Then, keeping the pencil on the outside of the inside-out thing, stick it against the fabric into the straw like so: >|= where > is pencil and | is fabric and = is straw. Then flip it right side out. The trouble with pencils is graphite marks, but any other pointy object should work alright.
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I meant "I really like this tutorial", not "I really like this template", sorry
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