I really like to sew. It's one of my favorite hobbies. I decided to combine two of my favorite things—sewing and Minecraft—and this was the result.
Luna is her name!
Okay, I know a creeper isn't the most original fan plush ever made, but I had a blast making this one, and she's so huggable!
I sewed Luna using this instructable as a guideline, and drafted the pattern with graph paper. I made a 4x4 square of units to be equivalent to 1 pixel on the creeper's texture. Speaking of texture…
Luna is made from a thrift store bathrobe. When I saw the furry green terry cloth, I instantly thought, “Oh my gosh! That's the perfect material for a creeper!” She just looks somewhat yellow in the picture because of the light. Her face is made from scraps of an old T-shirt (the green) and leftovers from a cloak I made earlier (the black flannel.)
Overall, this project was really easy, but I did have to cut out 16 rectangular panels for the legs, which got pretty tedious.
I mostly used machine sewing for this, except for whip-stitching the body parts shut after stuffing them, which requires hand sewing.
I also needed to use the whip stitch to sew all the body parts together to assemble to plushy. I used a zig-zag stitch to sew on Luna's face. I was originally going to give her the sad mouth that creepers in-game have, but I decided that she would look cuter if she smiled. So, I chopped the frown in half, giving me a grin instead!
My only complaint is that her head isn't perfectly aligned on her body; it looks slightly “pushed back.” She is about two feet tall. I tried to make the fur run in a natural grain like how it would on any real furry animal. Luna is slightly top-heavy and will pitch forward if her back isn't supported against a vertical surface. Despite these little hiccups, I am overall very satisfied with how the project turned out.
The lighting in this picture is pretty terrible. Post #3 has better pictures of Luna.
After the Creeper, I did the Enderman. Swing on by post #8 to check that out.
(Skip this part if you don't want to listen to me prattle on about fussy sewing stuff.)
Katya is made of an assortment of thrift store T-shirts and turtleneck shirts. I chose not to make her out of fake fur because I don't see Endermen as furry. To me, they have short, fuzzy hair close to their skin. Since I'm not going to be able to find loads of black velvet or flannel--my preferred textiles for the job--at the drop of a hat, I chose to use the soft jersey knit of T-shirts and turtlenecks for her material. The light part of her eyes are cut from another T-shirt, with scraps of a purple burlap-like material for the pupils. The highlights on her eyes and her mouth are stitched on from embroidery floss.
I cut the shirts into pieces and, using the measurements provided by this instructable, cut out all the panels to construct my Enderman. At first, I wasn't sure if I wanted to use inches for measurements as called for by the pattern, or to use my tried-and-true graph paper method. Ultimately I decided to do the graph paper method, using the same 4x4 units=1 pixel scale I used for Luna, so they would be proportional. I didn't chop up all the shirts right away (I bought one long-sleeve T-shirt and three turtlenecks) in case I wouldn't need as much as I was planning for.
Like Luna, I used mostly machine sewing to sew Katya. (I still needed to hand-sew the body parts together. Watching Cinderella helped pass the time.) The arms and legs were SO obnoxious to sew, turn, and stuff. I ran out of stuffing halfway through work on the head. OH NO! ...Fortunately, I was able to replenish my supply and resume work. In the end, 2.5 hapless shirts were sacrificed to the cause.
You'll notice that Katya's eyes look different from the Enderman eyes you're used to. Well, when I sew Minecraft plushies, I value cuteness over hard accuracy. It was for that reason I went for an adorable cartoony effect with the eyes instead of their typical steely glare.
And as for the T-shirt, well, I felt Katya should have some proper clothes. Besides, “I gots mad ninja skills...”--that's too funny to not save the shirt. I apologize for the bad lighting in the picture. Stupid cheap lightbulbs.
One of the neat things about Minecraft is that the simple shapes and textures of original hostile mobs, like Ghasts and Creepers, gives you a lot of leeway to interpret their appearances for fan art. I attempted to make a plush Creeper in a realistic style.
Quite different from the walking pickles we know in-game...this was the picture I used as reference.
This was the most difficult stuffed animal I've made so far. I see creepers as furry lagomorphs (rabbits and pikas), with their big, gaping “mouth” actually being a dark fur marking that hides their nose and real mouth. I'm seeking to combine aspects of a cat and a rabbit to make the body shape. Finding the right patterns was hard, because way too many of the ones I looked at were trashy “artsy cute” patterns—simple blobby shapes that hardly look like real rabbits.
In the end, I decided to go with this splendid pattern for a "towel cat" by Nunodoll. (http://dollmaker.nunodoll.com/cat/terrycat.html) It's close enough to the body shape I was aiming for, so I printed it off and used my artist's eye (and a pink fabric pen) to enlarge it. I could tell already that the project would involve a lot of trial and error, so I started working with a mock-up using some fat quarters I had been given for Christmas. I sewed together the mock-up to get a feel for making the animal before I risked wasting any of my good material. Once I was done, I cut it apart and used the side body piece as a gauge for the real thing.
As it turns out, I had enough terry cloth left over to make both of the side body pieces, but not enough for the belly. I wanted to save the terry cloth that remained for the head, because it was more important that the head matches the body rather than the belly. After a quick trip to the fabric store, I found a roll of "spinach-green" (mmm...not the name I would have picked) fleece and some dark green suede (for the paw-pads and mouth marking) in the remnants bin, because 1. I didn't need a lot, anyway, and 2. I was too shy to ask a clerk to cut the fabric for me. (That's how you buy new fabric, by the way, if you didn't already know--you bring the entire roll up to the counter and tell the clerk how many yards you want.) I cut the belly piece from the green fleece, using the legs from the side body. The remainder would be used for spots on the creeper's body.
I machine-sewed the body and belly pieces together. Easy enough. I always like stuffing plush animals. There's something almost magical about cramming fluffy clouds of fibrefill into a floppy fabric skin, transforming it into a cuddly animal. I stuffed this one pretty full, to give it a bit of chub befitting of its "rabbit" nature.
The head wasn't patterned at all. I didn't use the head design from Nunodoll because by doing so, I would be making a green cat, not a creeper. And I didn't want to make a green cat. So, I drafted the head design from the terrycloth I had left over, shaping it from imagination. Since creepers' heads are cubes like everything else in Minecraft, their shape when translated into real life is left almost completely up to interpretation. I decided to do a simple half-oval, with a short snout. Because I wanted to make sure I did everything correctly, I hand-sewed the head entirely and didn't utilize my machine.
Then, I went to work making the facial pieces, sewing them on the head, stuffing the head (being sure to give it pudgy bunny cheeks) and then cutting out the spots and sewing them on. Because I was a dingaling and didn't think of sewing on the facial pieces and spots before I sewed together the body and head pieces, I overcast stitched them on. It doesn't look as good, but oh well, a lot I can do about that now. Once I was done with the spots, I sewed on the paw-pads.
The last step was to attach the head.
I'm thinking of a pink Ghastling next...what say you?
...
What? It's my imagination, and in my imagination, Ghasts can be pink!
I really like to sew. It's one of my favorite hobbies. I decided to combine two of my favorite things—sewing and Minecraft—and this was the result.
Luna is her name!
Okay, I know a creeper isn't the most original fan plush ever made, but I had a blast making this one, and she's so huggable!
I sewed Luna using this instructable as a guideline, and drafted the pattern with graph paper. I made a 4x4 square of units to be equivalent to 1 pixel on the creeper's texture. Speaking of texture…
Luna is made from a thrift store bathrobe. When I saw the furry green terry cloth, I instantly thought, “Oh my gosh! That's the perfect material for a creeper!” She just looks somewhat yellow in the picture because of the light. Her face is made from scraps of an old T-shirt (the green) and leftovers from a cloak I made earlier (the black flannel.)
Overall, this project was really easy, but I did have to cut out 16 rectangular panels for the legs, which got pretty tedious.
I mostly used machine sewing for this, except for whip-stitching the body parts shut after stuffing them, which requires hand sewing.
I also needed to use the whip stitch to sew all the body parts together to assemble to plushy. I used a zig-zag stitch to sew on Luna's face. I was originally going to give her the sad mouth that creepers in-game have, but I decided that she would look cuter if she smiled. So, I chopped the frown in half, giving me a grin instead!
My only complaint is that her head isn't perfectly aligned on her body; it looks slightly “pushed back.” She is about two feet tall. I tried to make the fur run in a natural grain like how it would on any real furry animal. Luna is slightly top-heavy and will pitch forward if her back isn't supported against a vertical surface. Despite these little hiccups, I am overall very satisfied with how the project turned out.
The lighting in this picture is pretty terrible. Post #3 has better pictures of Luna.
After the Creeper, I did the Enderman. Swing on by post #8 to check that out.
Insulting people for their beliefs is not a good way of convincing them to adopt yours.
Fiction is just a game of make-believe recorded on paper or film. But that's what makes it so great.
Hipster Jesus liked you before you were cool.
Indeed, the head is a bit misaligned.
But it's a pretty nice job there.
I took some better pictures of the plushie.
Insulting people for their beliefs is not a good way of convincing them to adopt yours.
Fiction is just a game of make-believe recorded on paper or film. But that's what makes it so great.
Hipster Jesus liked you before you were cool.
Pretty cool! I like the fedora. ^^
اكتب الإساءة على الرمل و انحت المعروف على الصخر
"Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble"
What mob should I try next? I was thinking an Enderman or maybe a pig.
Insulting people for their beliefs is not a good way of convincing them to adopt yours.
Fiction is just a game of make-believe recorded on paper or film. But that's what makes it so great.
Hipster Jesus liked you before you were cool.
Enderman. That would be interesting to see.
Especially if it was wearing a fedora.
اكتب الإساءة على الرمل و انحت المعروف على الصخر
"Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble"
I decided to do an Enderman. I'm making pretty good progress, but the legs and arms have to the most annoying things I've ever sewn.
Insulting people for their beliefs is not a good way of convincing them to adopt yours.
Fiction is just a game of make-believe recorded on paper or film. But that's what makes it so great.
Hipster Jesus liked you before you were cool.
Luna found a new friend.
Say hello to Katya the Enderwoman.
(Skip this part if you don't want to listen to me prattle on about fussy sewing stuff.)
Katya is made of an assortment of thrift store T-shirts and turtleneck shirts. I chose not to make her out of fake fur because I don't see Endermen as furry. To me, they have short, fuzzy hair close to their skin. Since I'm not going to be able to find loads of black velvet or flannel--my preferred textiles for the job--at the drop of a hat, I chose to use the soft jersey knit of T-shirts and turtlenecks for her material. The light part of her eyes are cut from another T-shirt, with scraps of a purple burlap-like material for the pupils. The highlights on her eyes and her mouth are stitched on from embroidery floss.
I cut the shirts into pieces and, using the measurements provided by this instructable, cut out all the panels to construct my Enderman. At first, I wasn't sure if I wanted to use inches for measurements as called for by the pattern, or to use my tried-and-true graph paper method. Ultimately I decided to do the graph paper method, using the same 4x4 units=1 pixel scale I used for Luna, so they would be proportional. I didn't chop up all the shirts right away (I bought one long-sleeve T-shirt and three turtlenecks) in case I wouldn't need as much as I was planning for.
Like Luna, I used mostly machine sewing to sew Katya. (I still needed to hand-sew the body parts together. Watching Cinderella helped pass the time.) The arms and legs were SO obnoxious to sew, turn, and stuff. I ran out of stuffing halfway through work on the head. OH NO! ...Fortunately, I was able to replenish my supply and resume work. In the end, 2.5 hapless shirts were sacrificed to the cause.
You'll notice that Katya's eyes look different from the Enderman eyes you're used to. Well, when I sew Minecraft plushies, I value cuteness over hard accuracy. It was for that reason I went for an adorable cartoony effect with the eyes instead of their typical steely glare.
And as for the T-shirt, well, I felt Katya should have some proper clothes. Besides, “I gots mad ninja skills...”--that's too funny to not save the shirt. I apologize for the bad lighting in the picture. Stupid cheap lightbulbs.
Insulting people for their beliefs is not a good way of convincing them to adopt yours.
Fiction is just a game of make-believe recorded on paper or film. But that's what makes it so great.
Hipster Jesus liked you before you were cool.
WOW! I'm very impressed.
Feed me more beautiful plushie pictures please!
اكتب الإساءة على الرمل و انحت المعروف على الصخر
"Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble"
I'm impressed! Keep it up!
Cool!
The smirk on the Enderwoman certainly gives her some swagger.
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Thanks for all your compliments!
-under construction-
Insulting people for their beliefs is not a good way of convincing them to adopt yours.
Fiction is just a game of make-believe recorded on paper or film. But that's what makes it so great.
Hipster Jesus liked you before you were cool.
Cactus.....CactusMan.....0-0
Im not going to be one of those stupid people who try to get more Followers with their Signature -,-. Dont forget to follow
What?
Insulting people for their beliefs is not a good way of convincing them to adopt yours.
Fiction is just a game of make-believe recorded on paper or film. But that's what makes it so great.
Hipster Jesus liked you before you were cool.
One of the neat things about Minecraft is that the simple shapes and textures of original hostile mobs, like Ghasts and Creepers, gives you a lot of leeway to interpret their appearances for fan art. I attempted to make a plush Creeper in a realistic style.
Quite different from the walking pickles we know in-game...this was the picture I used as reference.
This was the most difficult stuffed animal I've made so far. I see creepers as furry lagomorphs (rabbits and pikas), with their big, gaping “mouth” actually being a dark fur marking that hides their nose and real mouth. I'm seeking to combine aspects of a cat and a rabbit to make the body shape. Finding the right patterns was hard, because way too many of the ones I looked at were trashy “artsy cute” patterns—simple blobby shapes that hardly look like real rabbits.
In the end, I decided to go with this splendid pattern for a "towel cat" by Nunodoll. (http://dollmaker.nunodoll.com/cat/terrycat.html) It's close enough to the body shape I was aiming for, so I printed it off and used my artist's eye (and a pink fabric pen) to enlarge it. I could tell already that the project would involve a lot of trial and error, so I started working with a mock-up using some fat quarters I had been given for Christmas. I sewed together the mock-up to get a feel for making the animal before I risked wasting any of my good material. Once I was done, I cut it apart and used the side body piece as a gauge for the real thing.
As it turns out, I had enough terry cloth left over to make both of the side body pieces, but not enough for the belly. I wanted to save the terry cloth that remained for the head, because it was more important that the head matches the body rather than the belly. After a quick trip to the fabric store, I found a roll of "spinach-green" (mmm...not the name I would have picked) fleece and some dark green suede (for the paw-pads and mouth marking) in the remnants bin, because 1. I didn't need a lot, anyway, and 2. I was too shy to ask a clerk to cut the fabric for me. (That's how you buy new fabric, by the way, if you didn't already know--you bring the entire roll up to the counter and tell the clerk how many yards you want.) I cut the belly piece from the green fleece, using the legs from the side body. The remainder would be used for spots on the creeper's body.
I machine-sewed the body and belly pieces together. Easy enough. I always like stuffing plush animals. There's something almost magical about cramming fluffy clouds of fibrefill into a floppy fabric skin, transforming it into a cuddly animal. I stuffed this one pretty full, to give it a bit of chub befitting of its "rabbit" nature.
The head wasn't patterned at all. I didn't use the head design from Nunodoll because by doing so, I would be making a green cat, not a creeper. And I didn't want to make a green cat. So, I drafted the head design from the terrycloth I had left over, shaping it from imagination. Since creepers' heads are cubes like everything else in Minecraft, their shape when translated into real life is left almost completely up to interpretation. I decided to do a simple half-oval, with a short snout. Because I wanted to make sure I did everything correctly, I hand-sewed the head entirely and didn't utilize my machine.
Then, I went to work making the facial pieces, sewing them on the head, stuffing the head (being sure to give it pudgy bunny cheeks) and then cutting out the spots and sewing them on. Because I was a dingaling and didn't think of sewing on the facial pieces and spots before I sewed together the body and head pieces, I overcast stitched them on. It doesn't look as good, but oh well, a lot I can do about that now. Once I was done with the spots, I sewed on the paw-pads.
The last step was to attach the head.
I'm thinking of a pink Ghastling next...what say you?
...
What? It's my imagination, and in my imagination, Ghasts can be pink!
Insulting people for their beliefs is not a good way of convincing them to adopt yours.
Fiction is just a game of make-believe recorded on paper or film. But that's what makes it so great.
Hipster Jesus liked you before you were cool.
What? I'm sure someone out there wants to know how I put them together.
...And thank you for the good reception.
Insulting people for their beliefs is not a good way of convincing them to adopt yours.
Fiction is just a game of make-believe recorded on paper or film. But that's what makes it so great.
Hipster Jesus liked you before you were cool.