I Like Drawing I Guess

Colour Coding:

- book canon used - personal choice - mathematical conclusion

Materials Needed:

- Sewing machine (to save time but you can just sew it all by hand) - Thread and needle for sewing by hand (I used an embroidery needle and thread because of the fabric I used) - about 2 meters of fabric of your choosing (if using my measurements) - Plush stuffing

Measurements Used:

NOTE: when cutting the fabric, leave a 1-2cm margin for sewing

Top Main Carapace (1x):

- Pentagon shape - 40cm widest point (Rocky is 45cm wide in the book but due to the stuffing, his top carapace needs to be a bit smaller)

- 25cm sides

Sides Main Carapace (5x):

- Trapezoid shape - 25cm upper side attaching to the Top fabric (same length as the sides of the top fabric)

- 13,5cm lower side attaching to the bottom fabric

- 22cm Height (Rocky's carapace is around 22cm tall in the book)

Bottom Main Carapace (1x):

- Pentagon shape - 22cm widest point

- 13,5cm sides (same length as the lower side of the Sides Main Carapace)

Top Vent (1x):

- Pentagon shape - 16cm widest point (2.5 times smaller than the widest point of the top main carapace) - 10cm sides (2.5. times smaller than the sides of the top main carapace and 4 times smaller than the widest part of the widest point of the top main carapace)

Vent Sides (5x):

- Rectangle shape - 10cm long side (same length as sides of top vent) - 3cm short side

Upper Arm (10x):

- Rectangle shape - 20.5cm long side (whole leg is 50.5cm, because Rocky is described to be around the same height as a labrador, which get around 50cm tall, split the legs up however you like) - 12.5cm short side (I made the diameter of the leg 8cm, and since the leg is basically a tube, the fabric has to be cut to the circumference of the "circle", so you have to calculate the circumference based on the diameter you choose for your arms and then divide it by two and use that for the short side. Also, the circumference is equal to the upper side of main carapace side piece. :D)

Lower Arm (10x):

- Trapezoid shape - 30cm Height (because the whole leg is 50.5cm long) - 12.5cm upper side (same length as the short side of the upper arm) - 9.5cm lower side (more math! :D since his lower arm narrows towards his foot, I chose a smaller diameter for the lower side. This diameter will also be the diameter of the middle of the foot. Calculate it as seen above.)

Foot (10x):

- 9,5 length of claw from middle of foot (same length as lower side of the lower arm)

And that's it for the patterns!! :D Now that we got the math out of the way, let's get sewing B)

Sewing Main Carapace:

Sew the Top, Sides and Bottom of the Main Carapace together. I used a sewing machine for this.

Don't connect the sides together yet and only connect the bottom to one side for now. It'll make the next steps easier (I didn't do that Dx don't make the same mistakes I made)

Sewing Vent and Connecting It:

Sew the Vent sides to the Main Vent (We will sew them together soon) But first, embroidery!

I just used a pen to mark the spots and made them a tear drop shape around 2cm away from the edges. Any shape works really.

Close up it might look a bit messy (didn't use an embroidery frame cause the fabric was too thick) but from further away its barely noticeable.

Next up, sew all the side together! (this part I sewed by hand)

And then go back to the main Carapace and cut a hole in the middle of the top carapace fabric around the same size as the Vent.

And sew it onto the main carapace (ignore the leg already being sewn in the image, it made things a bit harder to sew and could have been done later)

(I sewed the Vent to the carapace by hand)

Sewing Legs:

Cut a hole into half of the feet fabrics and pair them up together with the "non-holed" ones.

Then, sew the feet, upper arms and lower arms together in pairs so that the feet create a sort of pillow and the "arms" a tube each. (I sewed those with a sewing machine)

Stuff the feet with plush stuffing before sewing both parts of the arm to them.

Personally I stuffed the segments as I sewed them together by hand.

Connecting the Legs and Finishing up the Plushie:

Line up one of the legs with two wall sides of the carapace so that the leg is at the top of seam. Then sew it together so that the seam of the leg is also on the inside of the plushie. Do that for all sides until the "walls" are closed off. (from here I sewed every by hand)

Flip Rocky over and stuff him with plush stuffing to your liking. If you want to make the shirt for him (which will be the part 2 to this post) you might need to understuff him for now, so that he manages to slip into the shirt without any issues.

Afterwards sew up the bottom to the sides and BOOM!

YOU HAVE YOURSELF A BOOK ROCKY!

You don't have to do this in the same order I did, and there are probably way better ways to do it, but this is vaguely how it went for me as I bullshitted my way through. I did a mix of machine sewing and hand sewing.

(Red lines indicate where to sew, please account for seam allowance.)

The radiator piece on top is just a smaller version of the carapace top pattern (hence why I didn't make it its own pattern) and the actual "vents" themselves are just lines of that 11 stitch on my sewing machine. There's a bunch of different ways you can emulate the vents, but if you have a sewing machine this is the easiest way I figured to do it.

Sew that onto the centre of the carapace piece. I also put a small stitch connecting it at the very middle to keep it centred.

Sew all the sides to the top. If you want to have the clean edges/seams, then make sure to sew the fabric like sides to like sides.

Then sew all the sides to the sides except one so he's vaguely shaped (and inside-out.)

Flip him upside down and sew the sides to the bottom carapace piece, except for one near the two sides that are still open.

Then sew those remaining side pieces together (keep the bottom open), and flip him right-side-in through the open hole at the bottom so the preferred side of the fabric is on the outside and the seams are hidden inside. You can stuff him now and sew up the bottom panel if you want, or you can do it after the arms are attached.

The arms are pretty simple, just fold the rectangle in half (on the blue line), sew up the open side and one end to make a tube, flip it right-side-in the so the seams are hidden, stuff it, and sew up the remaining open end. Do that 5 times.

For the hands, sew three finger panels to the three small edges of the hand panel. Do that 10 times.

Take 2 hands pieces and sew them together, leaving the side that will attach to the arm open. Flip it inside out, stuff it, and then sew up that final side. Do that 5 times.

Sew all 5 hands to all 5 arms.

And then sew the arms to the carapace! (And stuff the carapace and sew up that last hole if you didn't earlier.)

Book Rocky plush!

Again, I completely fenagled mine and if I had followed my patterns perfectly to a tee it probably would look very different. There's definitely different and better ways to do this, especially depending on what materials and tools you're using.