Elf's crafting projects

... well, project two just got both easier and more complicated. The good news is I found a pattern so I no longer have to guess how to make most of the pieces I would have had to draft by hand. Only thing is, I've also found out that there's another variation that would work better as a Christmas gift (targeted completion date), but also want to be able to swap out for the original version... which means figuring out how to swap out hair.

So I'm trying to figure out what clothes I want to make for my Ed plushie--Got plans for satin pajamas using this fabric:

Hmmm, when I copy/pasted his picture into Paint and used the eye dropper tool, the shirt colors are:

So I got this pattern as a base to make myself an Ed plushie--the artist, Choly Knight, has a bunch of expansion patterns for clothes etc, and I think I can modify the hair pattern to fit Ed and Thanatos.

Choly Knight is having a sale on her patterns this week, so I went and got the anthro dragon doll pattern because it has a tricorn hat--I suspected that pattern could easily be modified for Thanatos's bicorn, and from the pattern, it should be very easy!

... Think I'm going to move all the discussion of the plushies onto @theyarnelf

Btw don't believe any Etsy ad or things trying to sell this pattern to you. It's been free since the 90s. It's very simple, just double crochet and color changes. Be sure to weave in ends as you go unlike me

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