Cute little ghosts and lights - Page 9 & 10

Page 9 was mostly about small fiddly repetition. I foolishly continued my trend of avoiding felt (partly I'm not sure I had enough, and partly I just I dunno I didn't wanna) but turning inside out 9 tiny adipose was hard work. 

The ribbon was fairly quick to sew into the number shapes although pinning them into shape was a pain as they are so small. It was also fun to use up little bits and create a colour sequence. I actually think they look more like little ghosts or like the stay puffed marshmallow man out of GhostBusters as well as adipose and I quite like that they have character and therefore aren't identical.

So that was so quick I thought I'd add in Page 10! 

Ood are a fan favourite character and I knew I really wanted to make the communication globe light up as it does in the tv series. I experimented with those keyring lights before I found that an LED light for a bike (small one) would work perfectly inside.

When the light shines you do see some of the yellow plastic I didn't quite manage to cut away but I love how it looks all the same. It was fun making the ood as the fabric for the head was already naturally wrinkly and the ribbons made short work of the tentacles. A quick and easy page to put together

Shiny shiny robots - Page 8

When I reached the Cyberman I had hitch in that I didn't have a grey or shiny fabric that I wanted to use, I don't have a lot of grey generally anyway really. I had had a scrap of some shiny silver stretch that I'd used a while back for a helmet for Thor but  that was all gone and there wasn't a grey I was happy with available in my stash. So I sent out a call and I was really lucky - the friend who gave me that last lot of shiny silver had some more she could give me to use. I also got some other bits of grey from other friends. Which is always useful to have alternatives. 

The design called for movable arms and legs so I made these double sided covered over cardboard for stiffness. I didn't have any grommets or anything like that so I just used a bit of stitching at a very limited point, a bit like a button to give the limbs some flexibility. 

The fabric was stretchy which was harder to deal with but really the worst thing was the metallic thread.

There are I'm sure metallic threads out there that don't give you the urge to scream at some point, but in my experience the only ones I've had are fabric threads wrapped in a metallic substance. 

After a while pulling it through a material the outer less flexible metal will shift differently (or not shift) leaving you with a bare thread. 

He came out rather nice I think if I do say so myself, kind of cute, and again with the long running theme of the designer, clearly downplaying the scary with the "Posing" aspect.