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Fraggle Minstrel Doodle Dump based on my recently-finished story, The Minstrel's Path. Well, some of it is. Some of it is random stuff my brain kinda threw out there.

Laundry Day. Boober Fraggle's favorite holiday.

Thanks! I feel a little bad about killing Cantus off, but, well, nothing lasts forever, and we know that people in the Fraggle universe do die. But Cantus lived a charmed life, and now it looks like he'll have a charmed afterlife as well. Or, since he'll be one of the ones working the charm...

Oh, there will be a 30th part. Have you forgotten that I always post outtake reels after my serials? ;) This chapter is recycled, yes, but I did a fair bit of rewriting too, to make it fit the continuity of the series. Heh, I'm glad that you saw the connection I was trying to make with...

Every song has its coda, and every story must come to an end. ***** The Minstrel's Path Part 29 by Kim McFarland ***** It was a cool day at the beginning of spring. Winter had been harsh, as winter always was. The caves grew so cold that the rock below chilled you through the soles of...

The Janken puppet looks good, but, well, I've improved a LOT since I made him, and I'm using better materials. (Cheap fleece, ugh.) The main issue I have with him is that he's supposed to look like Wembley, being Wem's son and all, and if you compare the puppet to my drawings you'll see that...

Absolutely! Most of the things I like to do are the things I taught myself to do. And I'm really dang fussy when it comes to my own stuff, so I keep an eye out for how I can improve. When I put Janken next to Boober I can really see how I've improved. (Janken's starting to look really...

Boober gets no respect at all Why does Boober look so cheerful? Yeah, I made a Boober puppet. Considering that I've just finished Sidebottom and had the pattern just lying around, it was inevitable! Boober has a few physical differences, however. His upper palate is segmented so he can...

I don't leave felt unglued around the mouthplate. I glue it all, and bend the mouthplate a little and stick the needle through that. Just the felt, not the mouthplate. Like I said, it's kind of a pain, but the result is nice. As for the Henson Stitch, no, it's not the ladder stitch. It has...

C'mon, Hensonco. Make me want to buy this. Include alternate language tracks and international segments we haven't seen. Scripts. Commentary tracks. The "This we know" list. Easter eggs. Give us die-hards something to make us want to shell out yet again for these episodes.

I don't know about the best way, but I've found a way that works for me. I glue the felt of the mouth onto the mouthplate, and then Henson stitch the skin onto that. It's the last part of the head I sew. It's a bit of a pain, but it works, and I like the result.

I'm pretty sure they were as ambiguous about where he moved to as they were about where he moved from so people could think he was in their country. I always assumed he was on the west coast somewhere; California or Washington. A Canadian watcher I spoke with recently was sure he was in a...

Thanks guys! I'll be wrapping this fic up shortly. I'm going to try to draw Sprocket's greeting. There's something about the wise, enigmatic, dignified Cantus getting a faceful of dog slobber, plastering his hair down on one side, that makes me giggle like a fool. Count, they are in the...

You can teach an old dog new tricks! ***** The Minstrel's Path Part 28 by Kim McFarland ***** It was a late morning after a long night. The Fraggles had held their Moon Greeting ceremony to celebrate the monthly appearance of the Fraggle Moon. The Minstrels had taken part in the ceremony...

This past weekend I burned my arm taking something a pizza of the oven. Hust smacked a forearm against one of the racks. It put a brand mark about an inch long on my forearm. It hurt like the devil when I did it, but not afterward, which puzzled me, but okay. I've kept it covered with...

There is an instrument called a sackbut, but it's a Renaissance/Baroque era trombone, and what Junior had looks and sounds like a variety of saxophone.

Heh, it's kind of obscure. That's the saxophone-like thing that Junior played in Ring Around the Rock. The Fraggles didn't recognize it as an instrument because 1) it's so huge, and 2) it's metal, and Fraggle instruments are usually wood and other herbal ingredients. Ma and Pa's singing...

Thanks, guys! The funny thing is, this is not the chapter I intended to write when I sat down at the keyboard. I had another event in mind, one completely unrelated to this, and I wanted a lead-in. I improvised this off the top of my head, and partway through it I realized that it was too...

The Pied Piper of Fraggle Rock? ***** The Minstrel's Path Part 27 by Kim McFarland ***** "Hey! The Minstrels are here!" A Fraggle in a side tunnel heard music, led by the unmistakable double voice of Cantus's Magic Pipe, and ran into the Great Hall to tell everyone. Word quickly...

There was also the art in his memoir.