Recent content by bigwilly2000

Thanks for the compliments everyone. :) Osvaldo Ruben: All of the patterns that I have used were the simple series patterns and can be bought on project puppet.

A big thanks to John Claybourne at the Bashful Puppet Blog for the pattern and videos. I made this puppet for my granddaughter Colby's 5th birthday this past May. So here we go: Pattern traced and cut. Made a liner in a very easy way than I have in the past. I bought a swatch of printed...

Well here we go again. I made the following puppets for my wife, daughter and another one for my granddaughter. I did these three puppets at the same time and although it was difficult to make my deadline of Valentines Day I got it done. So here we go: Sketches DinkyDoo Dolly Doo-Doo...

Preparing my own special product tags. Has my "company name" BigWilly's Puppets & Creations on one side and the puppet's name on the other. Body Sleeve sewn on. Making arm rods. Wanted to make these as child safe as I could since it was going to Colby. Fitting facial features. Making the...

Before anyone asks no this isnt a Skeeter replica, lol. I have based this puppet on my grand daughter's "Cuddly Monster" halloween costume a couple of years ago. I also used Paul Louis' videos as a reference since I was using the Roly pattern from Project Puppet. So without further ado here...

I was wondering how you made the glasses with the eyes? Spoons glued onto black plastic and cut to shape?

Ever try Google?

Great idea for those hard to find stripped patterns. I nearly went crazy trying to find a green and stripped fabric for Skeeter's horns. Found a kid's t-shirt in Giant Tiger for $3 and used that. :cool:

I trimed the hands and feet with a pair of scissors from my beard trimming kit. I left a few strands of fur at the end of each toe. :D I have seen the tutorial of using doll joints it was on Puppet Planet. Not a bad idea but I think it would be a little difficult getting the hook part to go...

Thanks for the info on the arm rod pocket. The one I tried was U-shaped and that would be the reason why it doesn't work out very well. Your design is what I think my BigWilly Whatnot has for his pocket. It seems to be L-shaped like yours. As for my Skeeter he isn't a replica of Scooter's sister...

Do you have a picture of how the arm rod looks in comparison to your inner sleeve and how it looks placed in the hand? I did a simular version for my Skeeter puppet but the rod ends just kind of sits in the pocket and will flop out with big hand movments.

An anti-pill fleece is what I was thinking too. I will try the polar kind as that is easier for me to get. An interesting thing I just found online while researching fleece was that "Polar" fleece is actually a brand name. The main kinds are anti-pill, brushed & micro, they are differentiated...

I was wondering if you can't get Antron fleece what would be a good alternative, anit-pill, brushed, micro, etc? I'm starting two more monsters and need the fleece for hands, feet and bellies. :D Chris

It looks great. :) What did you make the sculpture out of, modeling clay?

They look great. I like the idea of the Deaf Monster, great way to include everyone. :)