The Red Winter Monster

This is one of my first dolls ever, my first monster.  He’s from Mairead’s clothes, a red hoodie, a green-pink t-shirt, and some green sweater from Uncle Karl.  Very red, very bouncy, a permanent resident of Pittsburgh.

The Big Eyes – Green Limbs Monster

Christmas!

How to Make A Monster

I’ve completed my online tutorial of How to Make a Monster — the pattern and instructions are still available for purchase as a PDF booklet at Etsy here — but this online tutorial goes through the instructions with step by step illustrations.

The resultant monster: 10 inches tall, big mouth, a little squat, very embracable.  I made him in white fur, so he’s quite a soft little thing, but you can use the pattern with any sturdy, flexible material and come out with quite bizarre results.

Ready to monster?  The instructions are here.

The Big Teeth, Big Heart Monster

He is another reconfigured veteran — one of the first monsters I ever made, given some recent adjustments and surgery  — most importantly a brand new red heart on his purple belly.  He is friends with Harry Potter, he likes his Coonskin cap, and he’s studying Hungarian.

The Skull and Crossbones Little Monsters

I love this little guy — manufactured May-November, Belfast-Pittsburgh, from a skull and crossbones cap in QFT’s lost and found.  He is happy or bemused, and has a little pirate/goth atmosphere to him.  Just look at his back!  His front is a little less threatening if you feel uneasy.

He’s up for sale on Etsy, here.

Monster/Cat Portrait Mirror

Thanks to God’s Helping Hand’s bounty of weird fabric remnants, I made off with two luxurious swatches of white furry fabric.
So finally I found a good use for it: A Monster Mirror! Also known as a Cat Mirror, as it was interpreted by many of the browsers at the Union Project sale.

I cannot put into words how much I enjoy this mirror, and I am very happy that my new sewing ally Suz also loved it, and bought it.

She also promised lots more furry kinds of fabric, maybe some velvets too, so a whole new crop of soft little monsters will be emerging soon!  Now I am making a spate more to go up on Etsy and next week’s sale at the Union Project fundraiser.  Attack of the Cat Monsters — faces yet to be determined.

Here are the four fabric portrait mirrors I made, and another shopper at the Union Project recommended I do some Mohawks, some side profiles, a sun or two, and straight haired ladies instead of just wild haired ones. The list goes on!

The Squat White Furry Monster

I made this little creature out of some God’s Helping Hand furry fabric — Thank You Michigan!  He is the model for the new, improved, illustrious (and Illustrated) Make Your Own Monster pattern.  You want it, you want to make a monster, and he is here to show you how.

I’ll post up some of the pattern tutorial soon, but you can order it in its beautiful completeness from the Etsy site here – only $3.50!  I sold a few yesterday at the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum, expect a monster proliferation soon…

The Big Pink Furry Monster

And he’s in his natural habitat: THE PHD BEDROOM!

I made him in Belfast, and endowed him to Julia, who endowed him to Mairead.  I think he is my favorite monster ever!  He was born (like so many other monsters) out of the sad but bountiful Lost & Found drawer of Queen’s Film Theatre.  Someone in the city of Belfast left behind a red and purple furry-fuzzy scarf, and never came back to claim it (for 7 weeks at least), so a monster was necessary to give it back some purpose.

Make Your Own Monster!

And Your Dreams? True!

It is that time!  Time to walk out your door, find some clothes not put to much good use, and cut, cut cut — sew, sew sew!  A little stuffing, a little face, and there you go: A MONSTER.  The booklet is waiting, you can make monsters of all sizes, all characters, all yours!

How?  Here.

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