Finishing up 2011...

Hi All,

Finishing up some older projects that have been hanging around the shop.......

Starting 2012 new, wishing everyone a Safe and Happy New Year!!!

Happy Holidays from the Puppet Factory!!!!!

Best Wishes to all in 2012 J&W's Wicked Puppet Factory.....

Pink Fraggle finds a new home for Christmas!!!

Hey Everyone,

This is a cute little fraggle made for someone at work's Grandaughter. It is much smaller than my other ones to date, hopefully I will be offering more in different colors very soon.....

Have a great day!

Elmo 2.0 comes to work!!!

Hi Guys,


Before Elmo's trip to CA, he stopped by work to visit with some friends........

This is probably my favorite one to date and I'm going to miss him  :(

Ha, whatever Audrey is teling him, he doesn't look much like he's amused!

 Holly came by to say "Hi" as well...

Have a great day!

My New Elmo!

Hello All,

This one is actually for a customer in England. It has removeable arms (a first for me) and will come with a second set of "gloved" hands. Will be working on those this week so I can get this shipped out by the weekend.

Thanks Everyone!

Say hello to Katrina!!!

This is my latest puppet, and I think my most fun as well, Katrina.

Katrina has poseable fingers AND EARS!!! I tweeked the body pattern a little bit, making her much more comfortable to operate, and it was a toss up between ears or horns - but ears won this time...

See everyone soon!

My Blue Little Friend

Okay, here he is finished. He turned out a little larger than I expected, I will have to try to shrink the next one down a bit. All in all I was very pleased with the results....

Enjoy!

Feeling Blue today............

Hello All,

Here is one in progress, started it on Saturday afternoon, hope to have it finished tonight. Arms and legs are now finished, just need to be attached. The red stripe is making me think of him as either a Skateboarder or Roller Derby personality?

More pics to come later.........


Thanks!

Groovey Ghost is in (Haunting) The House!!!

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Another Scrap Puppet...

This is what happens when I'm on vacation and can stay up all night!  :)

Another simple sock puppet made with some scrap fur and fleece. Although I like doing these sock puppets, I think I like doing monsters more. I think the next one will be a glove puppet, haven't tried one of those yet............

Hmmmmm

Five Hours to Kill!!!

Good Morning All,

Vacation is a great thing for two reasons, time with the family, and nights to myself to finish projects! Five hours into it and my little frog I wanted to do is done, pattern made! Please keep in mind this is just done using Anti-Pill Fleece, so seams can only be hidden so much. Next one hopefully will be in Antron...

Another puppet soon to come.............

Thanks!

Puppet Makeover

Okay, sorry it took me so long to get this started. Let's recap............. :)

I purchased this puppet a little over a year ago for my own collection from a great puppet maker named Luna's Puppets. Quality was superb and the price was right, BUT, I was only buying a red monster puppet , not an Elmo. So once he was built and shipped over, I added the nose (about as far as I ever got in puppet making at the time) permantently attached the legs it came with and called it a day.

So there it sat, and four puppets later I pulled it out of box, looked him over, and decided that before I started my next project I would finish this one..........and turn him into a real Elmo puppet.

One thing that really stood out was the width if the arms, very long and almost ape-like. First thing I did was remove the arms and remove about an inch, while they were off I also added wire in each finger to make them now bendable. Once turned back rightside out I placed a piece of foam in the palm and added a tube for the arm rod so it could be hidden.

The arms were then re-attached with doll joints and I moved on to the body. Looking at the puppet, I could tell that I needed to remove about 3 inches of foam from the length. Excess fur was not cut off, but instead folded inside and glued. Later I may add an arm sleave and will need the extra to attach to.

Moving onto the legs, my first plan was to cut the feet off of the existing legs and attach new feet, but once they were off I could see that they were alot shorter than I had thought. So out with some paper, 5 minutes later a new pattern, 30 minutes later I had a new set of legs! Downfall, the feet turned out a little bigger than I needed, what I get for measuring them against my green monster and not this red one! But I didn't want to waste them, so it is what it is.  :)

Feet and legs now attached, I trimmed the fur down some around the neck and botton jaw, added a new permanent nose, picked at the feet for a bit, and am now enjoying my totally redone Elmo...............until my next one!



Hope you enjoy the pics!