Recent content by Coz UK

Hi! Hope that pattern worked out for ya! Love to see pics! The back piece can be made of stretchy fabric (i.e. fleece) and without the slit if you henson or ladder stitch it closed after stuffing. BTW, I blew up the pattern and cut them out of 1/2 inch upholstry foam and contact glued the...

Here are a few links with info that may help you out: Project Puppet Borsa Live-Hand Pattern: http://www.projectpuppet.com/servlet/-strse-27/The-Borsa-Puppet-Pattern/Detail Head is essentially an inverted 'U' - imagine what Cookie looks like looking up! Example of using the Borsa for Cookie...

Take a look here: http://web.archive.org/web/20051015220737/http://www.puppet-planet.com/AnimalBLINK.htm The pic on www.puppet-planet.com no longer works, but :) Yay! for the Wayback Machine!

A hairdryer / heatgun is often used with contact adhesive when gluing the foam, etc. It speeds the setting-up time, and also helps if you want to unglue the foam if misaligned. Theres a bit in the '60s 'Muppets on Puppets' where Don Sahlin mentions it.

Thanks Animal31! That makes sense! :) I do tend to over think everything! Sometimes it means I get an idea, other times it just confuses me even more! Thanks again! C.

Continued... I'd already sewn up the arms, but I'd left part of the hand seam open to insert the foam hand. Tight fit, and I worried about tearing the foam fingers, but they got in there without much trouble. I skipped stuffing the arms - I liked that floppy Grover-ish look to them. The...

Hiya! Reposting this as it disappeared after I posted it. I'm posting it as a kind of build blog-come how-to. It's in two seperate posts to allow for the pics to show. Meet Nino! He's currently my roomy. He tells me he has a famous cousin in the States on some TV show, but I think he's pulling...

Hi! First dumb question of the week. I've seen Ping Pong balls used as eyes - whole ones, in this case. I read that a small hole is made in the ball, then an toy eye is pushed into it and glued in. Now, I was thinking that this would make the stem of the eye jam into the back of the hand? So...

Hello from England! Longtime Muppet fan (I can remember watching Jim Henson performing Kermit on Blue Peter... it was a long while back!). As a kid I found a Fisher Price Kermit at a flea market, and after due deliberation, cut a hole in the back of his neck for my hand. Please, forgive me - I...