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....Aaawwwww! He's so cute. I want one.
http://www.x-page.net/texts/bamf/bamf_pic.jpg
Has anybody here actually made one? Is it hard? I can kinda sew.
I remember some discussion waaayy back on one of the WW pages but I cannae find it. I remember I couldn't get the pics to work back then.
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I made one using that same pattern. But i adapted it alot. I doubled the size, I made the red parts two-ply and insideout so there'd be now rough edges sticking out. I made the tail out of fabric. I left out the cardboard. I made the whole head more complicated, with ridged ears and yellow toy eyes..
Here's a pic.
http://www.angelfire.com/yt/reverie/.../bamfmade1.jpg
Thanks Garble! I wanna try! Too bad that Angelfire pic won't work, I'd love to see a good pic of one. I bet I could do that pretty easily. It would be cool to make it out of fleecy material like those pillow pal things that are so popular now.
Hmmm...a project for after X-mas, methinks...
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AAAAGAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
It's not fair, that was working before!!
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it's okay, Garble. I feel your pain. I'm gonna try to come up with something from that pattern. I'll keep ya'll posted.
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Omigosh...it's working now. That's cute! He's even got hair! Hehe. I'm definitely makin' one of those buggers now!
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Hm, sometimes it works and sometimes not...
That's a good idea for material. The pattern calls for felt but i thought that was too flimsy and rough, so i used T-Shirt material (from actual T-Shirts) instead. And the hair is black fake fur from the craft section of wal-mart. For a long time i tried to find blue fake fur like the pattern says, but it was a lost cause...
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well blue fur may be a lost cause but how about blue polar fleece? it is kinda fuzzy maybe that might work a bit better than t-shirt material. Jus' a thought
Okay, I'm inspired now. I saved Garble's pic, while it was working, as a reference. I've got the pattern. I'm gonna modify it. I've got a good pic of Kitty's Bamf from Excalibur and I'm pricing fleece. I can't find any yellow eyes though. All the stores have are cat eyes. Uck. But I am inspired.
Soon I'll have a fuzzy friend.
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http://www.angelfire.com/yt/reverie/.../bamfmade1.jpg
(if you just click the link and push reload you can see the pic just fine)
And it's a nice one too! I'm impressed...
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I was origionally going to go for a realistic texture thing and use blue velvet for the skin, black and white spandex for the costume and red vinal for the tunic and trim. But i couldn't find a blue velvet i was happy with and finding any kind of blue fake fur was just impossible...
I couldn't find yellow eyes either. I looked for some sewless yellow buttons but ended up buying some black toy eyes and painting them yellow....
Danke, Elwing. Garble, I'm not that ambitious...but I was thinking about painting the eyes like you said. I was just wondering if the paint would chip off. What did you use?
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that's a hard one, coz paint takes poorly to glass or plastic. Long time ago I did something similar with a transparent button: I painted the backside of it. That should prevent most wear. Of course, you will have to find a suitable button.
It's best to use an enamel paint because it is fairly hard to get of anything. If you are planning to give the doll to a child be more careful, some paints can be poisonous and button eyes can come lose and form a choking hazard.
Gosh, am I caring today. Cup of tea, dears?
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Enamel's the way to go, like Elwing said.
To help it stick to the plastic, you might try sanding it just a little to give the plastic some tooth the paint can stick to. I also sugest using a clear coat on top of that for further protection.
Or you could do like the pattern says and just use regular yellow buttons.