answer post from 2 hours ago
Anonymous asked:

You said you made that Clydesdale from a vintage pattern? Are you able to give out the pattern/have plans to sell it, and do you have resources for places to find other vintage plush patterns? I find I struggle a lot with finding any vintage plush patterns, but they're the easiest to practice plush sewing with u_u totally okay if not though!!

palaeoplushies:

Sadly it doesn’t seem to be available online anymore as the website I downloaded it from has vanished into the aether. It was IckytheCat.com or IckyCat.com but there’s nothing there anymore… I’m sad because it was a great resource for hundreds of patterns.

I’ve made my modified version (with hoofs) of the horse available over here for free: https://ko-fi.com/s/ad98e35459

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text post from 14 hours ago
doctorbeth

Jigsaw Teddy Bear

It's been a while since I've posted about a jigsaw puzzle patient, and I just sent one home, so I thought I'd share his story today. :-)

Mr Theodore E. Bear, known as Teddy to his friends, was not feeling well. Teddy's person wrote:

When I was born, my father bought me my first (and only) teddy bear.  That was 66 years ago.  Sadly, our new pup tore it up.  I cannot describe my heart break.  I lost my dad in 1999 and this was the only personal thing I had left from him.

Could I please get an estimate on fixing him?

I would so appreciate your efforts. 

This is the photo she sent of her Teddy:

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She actually had both eyes, and the tears were pretty clean, but Teddy had lost a significant percentage of his head and front body. We agreed on a treatment plan to include a spa (thereby removing Puppy saliva), and he flew to the hospital from Arizona.

When patients are in pieces like this, spa photos can be a bit... disturbing, so I don't send them. Suffice it to say that given his age, the surviving cream and brown parts needed to be separated to be safely cleaned, and I kept his googly eyes out of the water.

Once he was dry, surgery proceeded. It's a bit complicated when you aren't sure what his original shape was. I sent this photo I found online to ask if it perhaps looked like him:

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It was so close, his person thought it WAS him at first! But there were issues I could see with this sample. For instance, when teddy arrived one eye was on cream fur. So using this as a guide, but keeping that in mind, I went about putting him back together. There's a fur whose reverse side is a really close match for older, well loved bears like him, and I used that for the darker brown areas. For the missing cream areas (which were really more of a yellow) I used a smooth minky fur.

Here was the first set of photos of Teddy:

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Well, it turned out that despite the eyes being on yellow cream on arrival, his person remembered them on brown. That memory is what is important, so that part of his face needed to be adjusted. Also, the head and muzzle were a little too big, as was the nose... but his body was looking good!

Here's the next set of photos (without the nose on... it'd go on once we got the muzzle size/shape right).

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That was right! And then there was the new nose, which was embroidered:

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All set! His person wrote:

Love it!

Thank you!  

He’s perfect!

Oh, and lest you think I forgot his heart of original stuffing, he did get it, it just goes in at a different time with jigsaw animals that need lots of adjustment. Here it is being made and installed:

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Teddy made it home safe and sound. His person wrote: Thank you so much!  You saved him and a huge piece of my heart! Teddy is HOME!  He’s wonderful and I so appreciate your hard work!

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clothes & autism

I think sensory issues with clothing are a more well-known clothing issue with autism. but I also really struggle with buying new clothes and getting rid of clothes.

I think part of it is “black and white” thinking in relation to fast fashion. I feel like buying new clothes or getting rid of clothes is automatically bad, even though its not and theres a lot of nuance. logically i know i am a very very small, almost negligible part of the problem. but i still hate it and it makes me anxious.

a lot of it though is just resistance to change. new clothes = change. getting rid of old clothes = change. it doesnt matter if i dont or cant wear it anymore. it still makes me very anxious and messes me up.


one thing that helps is adding part of the old item to new items:

i try and save graphic prints from t shirts where i can so i can put them on new clothes and keep a bit of the old t shirt with me. that way its not a “full” change. sometimes the print is too old and worn to be worth saving though, and that really sucks.

i also tend to keep the softer/ better quality fabrics for mending and making patches. that way i turn the old thing into a new thing (and i can put some of the patches on new clothes too!).

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#just some thoughts. because ive recently had to get rid of a bunch of t shirts :( #finn just chillin #actually autistic #actuallyautistic

photo post from 15 hours ago
ask-crammaster-ham

here’s the closeted furries “hey man… can u bum me a cig” and “the one uncle nobody invites to the family reunion but SOMEONE keeps telling him where it is anyways”

if you want an idea of what john is like, imagine hau from pokemon sumo

ALSO the ppl who kept asking me for trans thomas art, HERE he’s trans in this au (; 

ft John:

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date of origin: 12th of september, 2017.

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text post from 15 hours ago
sightofsea

i always give a lazy two finger salute when cars stop for me at a crosswalk and it's devolved so much that at this point I feel like an icon of jesus whenever I cross the street

sightofsea

car: stops for me at a crosswalk

me:

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oh blessed art thou automobile for you have served the meek and humble. go on your way knowing your act of kindness has saved me 2 minutes on my trip to the bodega

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