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Agreed. I will likely just add a small loop in which a removal arm-rod will eventually connect. Oh, and my "fancy" palm-plate is a dissected chunky cardboard Sesame Street book my toddler chewed up, lol!

Hey, I meant to share this pic with the last post. Keep us up to date with your progress :)

This little fellow is a complete blank. I have not given him a name nor a personality. I enjoy the build and am not so much interested in performing. He is hand-sewn, with an exception to the arms/hands. My next projects are all hand-sewn with an exception to any internal sleeves etc.

Oh, and the only thing that sewing machine was used for is the internal sleeve. Every other bit was hand-sewn from the right-side of the fabric using the "Henson" stitch.

So, Fred now has a body (and "scrubs") and I am presently at work fashioning him pose-able hands!

Awesome, thanks! This is exactly the approach I settled on (read as: resigned myself to). I just finished the wire to palm-plate procedure and need only sandwich and cement my foam after I decide on a removable arm-rod design. BTW, your Fraggle is the cat's pajamas!

I desperately (dramatic flair) want to use my "Henson" stitch to sew the hands of my current project, but I cannot figure out how to lay out the pattern in a way that makes it easy to dexterously maneuver about. I have machine sewn the arms/hands (only!) of my previous projects and I do not like...

Love it! Rock on!

I composed a thank you post earlier today, but I see it did not go up. At any rate, Thank You! Keep building!

Agreed, Buck-Beaver & D'Snowth. Size it for comfort of the performer and control the perception of size within the performance.

Well done. Did you adjust the size of "the infamous dissected MR Kermit"? Also, any tips on calculating the size of the mouth-plate to match?

So cool! Thanks for sharing :)

You're welcome. Oh, and I also like that the felt ones protrude a bit and add depth. Flat may work better for some.

Yes, I used electric tape on my first attempt. It was just a little to shiny for me. But, I guess it depends on how you will use the end product. Bright/low light etc. The sky is the limit with materials.

Well done, Sir.

I use the adhesive-backed anti-scuff pads (for the bottoms of chair and table legs) that can be found at any hardware store. This is what is used in my avatar. I don't use these specific ones, but here is a link to what I am referring to. http://www.homediscountstor.com/images/kole/gc531.jpg You...

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Thank you for taking the time to respond. I am not encountering this problem here. I was however being mentored by an experienced builder for some time this year, but shortly after establishing my Photo-bucket account I got the cold shoulder. Knowing, as you mentioned how some people "hoard"...

I am a new builder. I started this spring and have been enthusiastically attempting to learn everything I possibly can from the wonderfully helpful people I have encountered here and on the interwebs in general. I thought it would be fun to post pictures of my works in progress and techniques...