May 11th 2015 - Making underpants (for a parrot)
Yes you read that right I am making underpants for a parrot! Not a real one but a hand puppet, well it was bought as a wash mitt/flannel, but wont be by the time I have finished with it. This is linked to the story sack I am making at family learning at the school. The book Pirates love underpants has a parrot in it as well as the monkey.
My kids don't know about the parrot puppet, they have seen most bits that are going in the story sack but I have kept the parrot from them as well as few other bits. I used this underpant template as the basic idea to make them, but the parrot in the book has shorts as underpants so I had to alter the shape to make them work.
I have sat and stitched the underpants and then stitched them to the puppet. I plan to add feather to it at the school on wednesday to make it look better.
I think my kids are safe in the knowledge that I wont be starting to make their underpants as it's not that easy!!! LOL!
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Monday, 11 May 2015
Saturday, 2 May 2015
May 2nd 2015 - Royal Baby and pirate hand hand puppet
May 2nd 2015 - Royal baby and pirate hand puppet
CONGRATULATIONS
I send my congratulations to Kate & William (and all their family) on the arrival of their baby daughter today, the new Princess. I hope that all is well with Mum and baby.
Pirate Hand Puppet
As part of my story sack with the family learning we were told we had to make a puppet to go in the sack. We were all given a plain white hand puppet like this:
which we could decorate how we liked as long as linked to our book. Well as my book is about pirates in underpants I decided I would make the puppet as a pirate in underpants. This was all well and good saying so but not as easy in practise. I could have drawn the design in fabric pens but me being me this wasn't going to look good enough! So I got material out of the cupboard and started cutting and stitching.
Here is the start of the pirate with his top on:
From here I made a bandana for his head and gave him some hair (flash hit the face part making him look yellow):
I then added denim from an old pair of jeans to make his trousers - this are at the side of where the pants are visible in 1st pic. I didn't get a pic of this stage. From here I made a pair of pants from grey skull material and stitched them over the top of his "jeans" so they look like pants are over top of them.
I think he's pretty good and i'm really pleased with him so far. Obviously he's not quite finished as still need to add his face and his eye patch. Only thing i'm not happy with is his hands - they were a very pale peach pen but they have come out quite orange but nothing I can do about it sadly.
CONGRATULATIONS
I send my congratulations to Kate & William (and all their family) on the arrival of their baby daughter today, the new Princess. I hope that all is well with Mum and baby.
Pirate Hand Puppet
As part of my story sack with the family learning we were told we had to make a puppet to go in the sack. We were all given a plain white hand puppet like this:
Here is the start of the pirate with his top on:
From here I made a bandana for his head and gave him some hair (flash hit the face part making him look yellow):
I then added denim from an old pair of jeans to make his trousers - this are at the side of where the pants are visible in 1st pic. I didn't get a pic of this stage. From here I made a pair of pants from grey skull material and stitched them over the top of his "jeans" so they look like pants are over top of them.
I think he's pretty good and i'm really pleased with him so far. Obviously he's not quite finished as still need to add his face and his eye patch. Only thing i'm not happy with is his hands - they were a very pale peach pen but they have come out quite orange but nothing I can do about it sadly.
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