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Beagle in red!!

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Finishing details on Beagle!

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How to make Velcro eyelids

Quick little how to make Velcro eyelids. You'll need stiff black felt around your eyes. It's with the felt in craft stores but it's stiff like construction paper. The felt is what the Velcro sticks to.

I start with a paper pattern of the eyelid and then transfer it to more stiff felt.

Glue down what ever fabric you would like the eyelid to be onto the felt. For these ones I shaved down some fur.

Trim the fabric with just a small overhang along the top of the eyelid. Wi...

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Working very hard to try to finish up Beagle. Glued his head today

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Inside of Beagle's head! It always looks so funny at this step

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Patterning and cutting out beagles head fur today

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Eyes and feet done for beagle

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Beagle's head sculpt almost done

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Check out these nice lined necks on Atlas and Beagle. Also started the carve for Beagle's head

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Working on Chai's hands, hell have vinyl claws and paw pads. Beagles tail is done and feet are sewn but need to be stuffed and finished up

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Hands for beagle all sewn

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Sewing on Beagles hands and Chai's body

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Cut out body pieces for Chai the maned wolf

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More work on Beagles hands today

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Fingers and toes for Beagle!

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Didn't grab a photo but I started cutting out hands and feet for Beagle. Headed out for the weekend to entertain some family that is visiting. Hope y'all have a good weekend as well

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Bodysuit for beagle sewn. Still needs finishing details

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Feet bottoms for Atlas sewn and cutting out the rest of Beagle's bodysuit

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Pieces for 2 heads cut and glued, ready for assembly and sculpting

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Our power went out last night but I was able to try to teach Cassius how to use the sewing machine a bit more before it went out. He helped sew up a tail for a personal project

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Padding and tail for Atlas done!

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Fur scraps for sale!

Offering here first. Got this box of fur scraps up for grabs. United States only (sorry shipping is too expensive) for $50 +$40 shipping.

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Working on Atlas's tail and Cassius is cutting out head pieces

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Started cutting out fur for Beagle and realized I needed more red fur. Whoops! I'm bad at planning 😅 ordered more and will work on something else in the mean time

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Tail for Beagle sewn and bodysuit patterned

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Lower legs for Atlas! Hell have attached feet so I can't sew to the body yet

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Forgot the customer wanted attached feet so I taped back up my pattern to modify it. Sometimes I go on auto pilot and do silly mistakes like this 😅 thankfully I realized before I made the feet at least. Now to modify the fur I had cut out and partially sewn for the leg!

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More sewing on Atlas done. Really excited for this one

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Studio photoshoot

Studio photos of Thay the Hyena by Cassius

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Photos sneak peak

Thay picked up his suit today!

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