Waterflake

Long time without writting here... well, I was so busy trying to focus my mind on a new project. 

I want to show you Waterflake. Waterflake is only 7cm tall standing (about 2.75"). He has disc joints in the head and in the legs. The arms are thread jointed (so small for adding all the disc joints X_X). The paws are full of detail, I love them.

I'm working on a series of OOAK bears with this pattern. So I hope that I can show you more cute and tiny bears soon ^^.

Drejo

"Drejo, as a good raccoon has nocturnal behaviour and likes to climb trees. But, sometimes, when nobody observes him, he loves to hang upside down like bats. He strongly believes that making this very often he could obtain bat wings to fly around the forest."

Drejo is OOAK fantasy raccoon of about 11cm. He was made with hand-dyed Schulte viscose. I sculpted his eyelids and his nose. He has a wobble joint, on his head that allows him to make some cute poses, and other four disc joints on the legs and arms.

New project

Today I had some free time and I started my new plushie. I hope that the result reaches my expectations because I'm so excited about this little one.

It's the first time that I will use viscose, but I like how it looks (it's so thin and soft). Also I was greatly surprised when I hand dyed it! It caught a natural rose-greyish brown that fits perfectly the idea that I have in my mind.

I took a picture of the hand dyed fabric, but in real life it's even better. Soon more work in progress updates.

Mocca the cute Panda

Mocca is a lovely 9cm tall panda made with long Sassy fabric in two colors. He has five disc joint points, german glass eyes, and was finished with a hand dyed vintage-looking scarf. To give him a good weight I used some fillig beads in his body and in his legs, so he can stand and sit easily!

Mocca was born in China (as a good panda), but his adventurer spirit incentivated him to travel around the world searching the essence of life.

I'm here again!

Long time has passed since my last blog entry. I was so busy with my job (I work in a lab), and I have little time to think about bears and dolls. But now I started again sewing little creatures. I was learning new techniques and also trying new styles. I think that now I'm in love with miniature bears. Here are some of my newest creations (none of them are for sale, they're for my personal collection, but I hope that soon I can show you some adoptables again!):

Trufito: Trufito is only 6cm tall, but he has a good friend to play with. He loves dinosaurs.


 


Coco: he's made with handmade dyed mohair and much work and love. Also his ruff was handmade dyed. I finished him with small drops of liquid gold that gives Coco a vintage look. He's only 3.5" tall.

Crafting Dreams Series

Today I want to talk a bit about the Series that I'm using to classify my plushies. It could seem a bit weird, but for me it's funnier if I can create a plot behind each work. I like to see a finished plush and view his/her personality. This helps me a lot to think about his/her friends (or enemies, hahaha) and create the next one with clearer ideas about the colors and shapes. 

Also, making different series, allows me to make plushies with radically different styles, and I love it. Of course that I can recognize a part of me in all of them, but I would like to try to make a variety of plushies.

And well, these are more or less my ideas now, but maybe in the future new series would come to Crafting Dreams!:

- Wood Forest Series: the story starts into the Wood Forest, an small village near a mysterious forest full of magic creatures. Each character reacts in a different way about the forest events. For this line I want to make anime-looking plushies with warm accessories made with natural materials.

- Circus Series: the adventures of a group of animals that works in a circus. I want to make a color contrast between some only black and white plushies and others plenty of colors and made with "remnants". I want to point out that I love the circus aesthetic, but I'm not agree with animal exploitation. So I apply circus features to animal plushies because I like how it looks, but my circus plushies are really happy, only works 8 hours per day and have paid holidays.

- Wild Series: for animals that are not usually represented as plushies. Focussed in animals that are not domestic. I want to represent them "as they are", I mean, maybe they would not be so realistic, but I will not use fantasy colors or sparse textures. I would love to make this series mostly in alpaca fabric, because in my opinion it's so similar to real animal hair.

- Gold Series: for a more vintage-looking creations. They will be mainly teddy bears with "wear out" colors and fabrics (maybe most of them would be made with sparse mohair, or with a curly one), long arms and legs, and smallers heads.

And to finish this long post this is a shot of the alpaca fabric for my next plushie, could you imagine who will be?

 

Gold Series 01 - Little Lion

"Little Lion is a shy bear that loves to be quiet reading old adventure books. His favourite ones are "Vingt mille lieues sous les mers" and "De la Terre à la Lune Trajet direct en 97 heures". His friends call him Little Lion due to his dense and furry hair, but he would prefer not to caught anyone's attention. He likes blackberries and apple pies"
 
Little Lion is a OOAK 15.5cm (about 6") tall vintage looking bear. He can stand up, sit down, move his head and his arms thanks to his five disc joints. He's made from high quality curly dense mohair fabric with handmade blushing, ultrasuede and two black glass eyes. He comes with cute hand-dyed blue linen ribbon.

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"Little Lion es un oso tímido al que le encanta estar tranquilo leyendo antiguos libros de aventuras. Sus favoritos son "Vingt mille lieues sous les mers" y "De la Terre à la Lune Trajet direct en 97 heures". Sus amigos le llaman Little Lion debido a su denso y peluchoso cabello, pero él preferiría no llamar la atención de nadie. Le gustan las moras y las tartas de manzana."

Little Lion es un oso OOAK de estilo vintage de 15,5cm de altura. Puede mantenerse en pie, sentarse, mover la cabeza y los brazos gracias a sus cinco articulaciones con discos. Está hecho con tela de mohair de gran calidad blusheada a mano, ultrasuede y dos ojitos negros de cristal. Viene con un bonito lazo de lino teñido a mano de color azul.