I do the same thing Vampire Wombat!  Now I know that I shouldn't buy it unless there are two of the same color.  It usually takes at least two packs of the cheap stuff.

LJ: The pattern is very easy.  There is no full body portion to the pattern but feet and legs are easy to make and I'd be more than happy to share the patterns I made up for those and the smaller modified hands.  (The original hands pattern looks a bit too big for a sweet female character.)  It's making up a decent pants pattern that gave me a hard time.  I'm still not happy with that homemade pattern.  Her pants ride up her legs when she sits down.  Then she looks a little dorky seated.

Absolutely adorable Puppetlady! Fantastic job! Grr I really want to build a puppet now, good thing I'm off school next week!
And problems with your pants pattern? I believe I have one for legs and pants somewhere around if you're interested, I can try scanning it and e-mailing it to you. Let me know!

I really want to try making a puppet with hair extensions but am not too sure how to start, I'll have to look into that!

puppetlady
I must agree with everyone she is an adorable little girl.I am trying to make a full body right now,but have no idea what I am doing.I would love you're pattern for the legs and how you attached them to the body.
Thankyou
Wisers Mom

Nice work!

Chris,

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Ok, sorry for the long delay Wiser's Mom.  I put the foot pattern in my gallery.  The leg is a tube.  I don't have the dimensions of the rectangle I cut for the leg tube, but I would make it the same width as the tube for the arm and the tailor the length to a reasonable leg length which will end up being similar to the length of the arm from shoulder to finger tip.  The foot pattern in my photo is placed against a 1/2 grid, so using 1/2 grid graph paper (available free online) you should be able to sketch an approximate shape.  The seam allowance is roughly zero because I hand sewed it using the baseball stitch (see http://www.projectpuppet.com/Page.bok?template=useful-stitches-tutorial) so add extra if you prefer to sew with a machine.  Cut two (mirror image) pieces and with right sides together sew top and bottom seams .  The fold the resulting "tube" in half to form the toe (seen on your left) and sew right sides together leaving the other ankle end open for stuffing.  There are no toes on this foot.  It's just a basic foot shape to fill a shoe.

Oh.. attaching the legs is easy.  Just sew the top of the leg tube to the bottom of the puppet.  I stuff my legs lightly to reduce weight and allow for bending at the knee.  This also makes sewing the top of the tube closed and to the bottom of the puppet easy.

Here is the alternate hand pattern I made up for Miriam.  It's smaller than the original and a slightly different shape.  This replaced the original hand/arm pattern that came with the simple series pattern from Project Puppet that I used for the head and body.  The arm tube needs to be approximately 3 inches by 7 inches. 

Many thanks.

I stuff my legs lightly to reduce weight and allow for bending at the knee.

If your legs do not show and you want to restrict where the knee bends, you can sew two lines across at knee level about 1/2" from each other.  This can also help to keep your stuffing from all moving to the ankle over time because of gravity... and you thought puppets did not have to worry about sagging parts like real people.