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MLP Embroidery Eye File SetOver the past year or so, I have received a ton of requests to help different stuffed animal designers. The eye design is a very critical piece of a stuffed animal, as that is where the emotion of the character shines through. I've seen plushies that look absolutely wonderful, but a painted on eye hurts the care and love that went into making the rest of the stuffed animal IMHO.
These designs were made to help fill that gap. Sadly, making the designs for them is a very time consuming process, so these took a really long time to assemble. I have 109 different eye designs and sizes made over the past 6 months or so. Each design takes upwards of 4 hours to make, as they are made to be very high quality, show accurate, and are made by hand not any type of automatic crappy program. That is about 400 hours of love & care that went into making these. That's a full time job for 10 weeks!
Trying to keep website updated with them

MLP Resource: Minky Color Guide(Please keep an eye out for more helpful journals centered around plushie making! More will be made in the future!
Also, keep checking back, as more characters and their colors will be added soon!)
MLP: Minky Color Guide:
Which minky color works best for ______ (insert MLP character here)?
This journal is an attempt to answer that question. There are more than 50 shades of minky out there, and as a plushie maker, I realize that it can be difficult to know which color will work best for the particular pony you're working on. This is made even more frustrating by the fact that many of the images of the minky do not show the true color!
I recently ordered a ton of swatches from fabric.com, and I'm continuing to collect swatches from various websites, in an attempt to get most of the minky colors. Because I have the actual fabric with me, I can compare it to the characters' colors to see which fits best, to ensure that you can make a plushie that is as show-accurate as possib

Pony ResourcesEdit: I'm routinely updating this post with new resources that people send me. So feel free to send me links to tutorials or other informational posts/deviations/links that you think might be helpful to plushy makers!
I've been putting together a new list of pony resources over the last few weeks. It's been a while since I did the first journal post on the topic and unfortunately a lot of the original links went dead when !BabyLondonStar deactivated her account.

I also wanted to include some links for other non-eye and mark related things that I've found over the time I've been on deviantART.

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There's a really cool tutorial by *BeeZee-Art for making spiral plushie horns that I thought folks might like to see for their unicorns. I think you could also apply it to plushies where the horn is sewn in already, getting your needle in there might be a little harder though.

Once you've finished sewing your pony you may want to

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After asking ~spirit-of-america how she manages to make a pattern with so few pieces (12 I think she said), she told me she first made a model out of newspaper and masking tape. So I tried that and got prototype #3. Kinda.

~xJupi Jun 26, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Ahhh mah gosh that is so clever O:

~MitarashiAnko7077 Sep 25, 2011 Student General Artist

Since you've come up with this prototype 3, I see you've made some modifications. I hope I'm not asking too much if I ask: "Are the changes you made later in the process something you could have made with the model here? As in, you didn't really pay attention to that detail, but didn't feel like taking it back to the model."

~hoppip Sep 25, 2011 Hobbyist Artisan Crafter

I think the main problems with this model were:
- back of head is too spherical
- legs are too short
- sticky-out-bit on the back leg got redone

otherwise not much changed. They're a great starting point

*Higginstuff Sep 11, 2011 Artisan Crafter

I saw a tutorial on how to make patterns like this here on deviantart, and I was actually wanting to make a pony pattern that way

Its really cool to see how you did this ^^

~hoppip Sep 12, 2011 Hobbyist Artisan Crafter

It's a very helpful method

*Higginstuff Sep 12, 2011 Artisan Crafter

I tried it out and you are absolutely right

~nommer Aug 1, 2011

How exactly did you get the actual PATTERN off of this? I'm a fursuit maker, so I'm used to making Duct-Tape patterns and using that, but if I put duct tape on this, it wouldn't come off.

~hoppip Aug 2, 2011 Hobbyist Artisan Crafter

draw seams on it and use a knife! The tape keeps the outer layer together

~Macky316 Jun 30, 2011

I've been thinking of making my own patterns for plushies ( ponies and people ) and i was thinking of doing something like this too, but i wasn't sure if it would work, or if it would just be a waste of time. So did this help with the pattern or did u do something different?

~hoppip Jul 1, 2011 Hobbyist Artisan Crafter

oh no it definitely helped!

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