Re: Placing the mouth for a permanent smile? Posted by Na on Mar 10, 2009
Ah... see now that's what I get for not paying proper attention. No, I haven't seen a lot of the videos, but yeah I get what you're doing now 
Elmo's looking good!
Elmo's looking good!
Re: Placing the mouth for a permanent smile? Posted by SCUBASTEVE on Mar 11, 2009
Matt, the dashed line is the line where the mouth plate sat on my puppet. the solid, shorter, curved line is where I cut.
As Miguel has said, it does depend on the mouth plate. That's why I suggest placing the mouth plate in and marking it with safety pins. When I removed the plate and turned the puppet inside out, the pins showed me where the plate had been. It looked too impossible to have such a big curve so i compromised. There had to be a reason the original pattern had such a short mouth so I split the difference.
In more detail, what happened after i cut it was I pinned the mouth in with dressmakers pins (one of the beauty of foam core board is it's practically made for pins). It was a rigid board in a curved hole so, of course it had to be on a strange angle. I STILL DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND HOW THE "HEAD FOAM" PUSHED IT BACK INTO SHAPE. I think it must be something to with the stretch of the material. I DO NOT GUARANTEE THESE DIAGRAMS TO WORK AS A PATTERN AND GIVE CONSISTENTLY GOOD RESULTS, but hopefully it helps if you decide to try it.
Thanks Na ( I sewed his nose and eyes on today) Here's a poor quality photo taken with my phone... Eyes in progress, experimental pupils pinned on for now, then arm rods and perhaps body foam to go... finished!
As Miguel has said, it does depend on the mouth plate. That's why I suggest placing the mouth plate in and marking it with safety pins. When I removed the plate and turned the puppet inside out, the pins showed me where the plate had been. It looked too impossible to have such a big curve so i compromised. There had to be a reason the original pattern had such a short mouth so I split the difference.
In more detail, what happened after i cut it was I pinned the mouth in with dressmakers pins (one of the beauty of foam core board is it's practically made for pins). It was a rigid board in a curved hole so, of course it had to be on a strange angle. I STILL DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND HOW THE "HEAD FOAM" PUSHED IT BACK INTO SHAPE. I think it must be something to with the stretch of the material. I DO NOT GUARANTEE THESE DIAGRAMS TO WORK AS A PATTERN AND GIVE CONSISTENTLY GOOD RESULTS, but hopefully it helps if you decide to try it.
Thanks Na ( I sewed his nose and eyes on today) Here's a poor quality photo taken with my phone... Eyes in progress, experimental pupils pinned on for now, then arm rods and perhaps body foam to go... finished!
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