The name Mary Jane suits her! Hair and eyes are great, very creative. You're giving me inspiration!

Helen

mary jane looks wonderful.  your should be very proud of the way she turned out.

You did a great job on Mary Jane, Thanks for taking the time to share her with us.

Billy D.

Maryjane is a beauty.Marvelous job.!
Brenda

Very nice work. Clean lines and finishing. Love the outfit she has on, it suites her well and looks like it was made for her.

I don't think that your question about how Magenta had created and posted her pattern was ever answered. It looks like perhaps it was hand drawn then scanned into the computer and text added to each piece with a image editor.  Each image was then placed in a folder and that folder was zipped or compressed.  Most computers now have a compression program that comes with them and if you right click on folders or files it well be in the pop up menu.

Shawn thanks for pointing this out. Just as Magenta did in our build along project she loves to design patterns. She told me that she drew the pattern from closely watching the you tube video ( perhaps using a screen capture technique) She then finishes everthing just as Shawn mentioned.

Billy D.

The pattern is the same size as Magenta submitted.  It actually came out smaller than I thought it would, and then when fleece and skin was added, it appeared larger.  Yep, the cheeks are blushed (with blush) and she is wearing baby sized clothing.  The turtle neck underneath is not baby sized exactly.  I needed a larger head hole for the neck, so that shirt is a reworked child's size garment.  I buy second hand clothing of any size if the colours are bold and crisp and the style is clean cut with no emblems or pictures.  I then cut the garment up and size it down.  I have one XXL tiedye shirt that has provided several outfits.  The sleeves were big enough to make simple small shirts:)

About the pattern design, like Magenta probably did, I watched the video closely and drew the pattern pausing the video many times to sketch and make measurement notes.  The cutting board beneath the builder appeared to be a 1 inch grid and I used that to make educated guesses on sizes while using observation to make guesses on shapes.  Magenta must have used the same assumptions because our head patterns are almost identical!

Shawn, the pattern looked like it was made with a computer aided drawing tool.  If she scanned her sketches she must have cleaned them up using the computer.  I once had a pattern drafting software demo that would draw all manner of lines straight and curved, but it was not as user friendly as I would have liked.  I don't remember that it had a utility that would accept a scanned image and clean it up.  That's what I would REALLY like. 

That is one very cute puppet.  Congratulations for taking the challenge on and figuring out the patterns.  The work speaks volume for the quality of the puppet in the end.  Thanks for sharing.......

Just to clarify things, concerning the Design Master floral spray as suggested in the Foam Book, it recommends using this paint on foam not on fleece of any kind.  Fleece does not take well to most paints, that is why Antron fleece is so popular since you can dye it unlike store pre-dyed fleeces.

Daryl H

Maryjane is so adorable!  Keep up the great work.



Angel