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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Sta.sh
sheik plushie: *teleports*
me: aaawww
sheik plushie: dude...just no if u wanna hang out fine, just don't toch
me: fiiiiine...your no fun
idk i just felt random
It was a couple of years ago, but I'll tell you what I can remember.
First I found a free plushie pattern online and modified it to make the head slightly narrow and the thumbs facing up (just personal preference). I can't find that website, but I'm sure you can find a pattern if you look around. I got a bunch of reference pictures of Sheik from the original game and the SSB designs, and drew out a simplified version of the clothes based on those to make it easier, and made a pattern for the clothes based on that.
For the fabric I chose something suede-like for the skin, cotton for the clothes and muslin for the wraps. I used a small white pre-made piping for the edge of the armor around the legs and arms. The hair is just yellow felt.
I used transparent plastic thread to put it all together, though you could used another sturdy thread if you're more precise with your sewing. I'm a messy artist in pretty much everything I do, so I used something that would hide my errors and make it easier to fix problems. Everything is hand-stitched, so it took a while to do, but I just took my time and stitched carefully.
If you want to know about how to physically sew it, you'd probably do well to look up plushie tutorials by people who know what they're doing. My actual knowledge of sewing is mostly self-taught and there are good tutorials out there that can teach you the basics.
For the wraps I cut strips of muslin, sewed one edge to the head and wrapped it around at different angles, putting in stitches every once in a while to hold it in place. That was one of the toughest parts, but you just have to experiment until it works.
The symbol and the eye are painted with fabric paint. I may have drawn a loose outline with pencil or something beforehand. I did the painting before I sewed it together.
So that's what I remember. It took about three days to complete. Hope this helps a little bit!