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sha-bam!! i just made a plushie tutorial in paint ms....granted it's quite bloody awful and all, but yeah. you get the gist of it.....and it's so ghetto that you have to read the info about each photo here, cause i'm too damn fucking lazy to use font boxes and shit.

+pietro whore butt plushie steps!+

1. supplies!!
+pattern
+fleece (or felt) i prefer fleece because it's super soft and snuggley. and i technically use "alpine no-pill fleece". one side is smooth and one side is kinda furry like. i like to use the smooth side for the skin, furry for the hair.
+tacky glue
+scissors
+thread
+needles and pins and shit
+random scraps and junk for clothing/accessories

2. supersoft polyfill for stuffing the plushie.

optional shit!
+sewing machine, plastic teddy bear eyes.....

3. take your pattern and pin it to your fabric if using a sewing machine. (yeah yeah. it's not pinned in my photo. sue me.) OR, if you're sewing by hand, cut it out and trace onto your fabric. pin the right sides of your fabric together.
+MAKE SURE BOTH PIECES STRETCH IN THE SAME DIRECTION!! i've found the fleece stretches one way and that i like to use it with it as a horizontal stretch. makes the plushie fatter. if you choose for a vertical stretch, then your plushie becomes skinnier and taller when you stuff it.

4. (not pictured) sew along pattern starting to a side of the top of the head, down around the body and then stop on the other side of the head while still leaving an opening large enough to pull the plushie through.

5. .....that's you're now dead pattern. i use tracing paper and just sew over it on the sewing machine. la la la. this is a pointless step to show you.

6. (not pictured) once you finish sewing and pull off the pattern and all that dandy shit, trim off excess fabric and then turn it inside out. use something to push out the arms and feet but don't rip your seams or you'll be a very sad person.

7. stuff him full to your little heart's content. you can see the open hole in this picture. once he's stuffed to your liking, sew his head shut. i use a whip stitch and honestly, it looks pretty damn sloppy when i finish but as long as the seam line is fairly straight, it doesn't matter cause hair goes over it. so don't freak about having a perfect seam cause no one will ever see it again.

7b. (just thought about this) before you sew him shut, you need to poke small holes in the face and snap in his eyes if you are using the teddy bear eyes. it's also easier to put in any piercings before he's sewn up too. but these are both totally optional steps.

8. check it out! he doesn't look like a lopsided naked alien any more!!
+tacky glue and cut fleece to make the hair. i'm sure you could get all awesome on my patientless ass and sew the hair if you really wanted to.
+sew on belly button, nipples, and butt crack.
+continue to accessorize with whatever you want.

9. sew or even tacky glue on some clothes. this is a shot of me sewing some jeans. i just cut and sew as i go so that they fit right cause even though i use the same pattern for the body, each plushie turns out different from its stretch and how much it's stuffed, blah blah blah.

10. a few hours and needle pokes later, and you're done!! i tend to spend about 5 hours on each plushie, mostly on clothes and hair. oye.
and pietro is still naked. D: cause will suggested making a tutorial and i was so over sewing those jeans with my o.c.d. that i decided to do this instead. soooo be on the look out for pietro i guess.

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hope this helped someone out. if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask, cause i just like regurgitated this ramble session on here and i wouldn't be surprised if i just confused the fuck out of people. i don't know how much more ghetto a tutorial can get honestly.

and i would have offered more photos, but i don't have a plushie in process for the one's i'm missing/i am so not going to start one just because.

but! if you use this, i guess let me see what you make.

back to sewing pietro's jeans to cover his butt. =3=

all this babble and pietro (c) me