#fandom plush

For one of my auctions this year, I offered a premade Merman Bucky plush, roughly 21in/53cm long, with a lace fin and a tail that moves. His tail and arm coloring are based on Bucky's uniform in Avengers: Infinity war, and his coloring based on both Jewish!Bucky and Sebastian Stan's eyes. The pattern is my own modification of a legged doll pattern I bought from ThimbleAnThistle on Etsy; while I used their base pattern to shape the torso and arms' silhouette, I shaped it to be more masculine and added ears, and the tail is fully my own design. His hair is faux fur, made as a wig over his plush head but sewn on for durability, and his face is embroidered with embroidery floss and a darning needle. For the pattern of the plates on his metal arm, I looked at a picture of the more distinctive parts of his upper arm in IW and freehanded the rest to look (hopefully) like a reasonable style match. Also, I tried to web his hands for swimming, but I'm not sure how well that came across, haha.

About halfway through auction week I got a massive itch to sew again, so I started an Alpine catfish to go with MerBucky (although my embroidery thread went AWOL so I had to finish her after the auction was over). I used a modification of Neon-Juma's koi pattern from DeviantArt (as found on Craftsourse.fandom.com), where I lengthened the back piece, used only it and the belly, and reshaped the front to be a bit more catfish-like. The fins and tail were made with a white lace of a similar type to MerBucky's tail fin and were freehand sized and placed based a Google Image search for catfish and staring at a few pictures for... longer than I want to admit.

The books are a lil' thank you bonus, because BBD2BH was my only bidder and a wonderful supporter, and she loves history. I found some local books she likely hasn't read before and sent them along.