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momijizukamori) wrote2023-12-05 07:28 pm
momijizukamori) wrote2023-12-05 07:28 pm
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So 'giant stuffed crab' tied for top of the poll, which is convenient for me because it's one of the shorter write-ups, lol.
The backstory to this is the convergence of two things: 1) reading priest's novel Can Ci Pin/The Defectives, in which one of the two leads (who, to be clear, is an adult man, and also very relatable ADHD engineer vibes) has a 1m long stuffed crab he uses as a pillow sometimes, and 2) getting into Rust, a programming language that has an adorable crab named Ferris as it's unofficial mascot.
And someone had a pattern for a DIY stuffed Ferris. What if, I thought, I made a stuffed Ferris at the scale of Lu Bixing's giant crab plush. So I did.
I started by tracing the pattern to a vector in Inkscape, which I then scaled so that the bottom piece was 1m wide (though I forgot to account for the fact that stuffing things makes them taller but also narrower), and then printed it out tiled across a bunch of sheets of paper that I had to tape back together. The main body is cut out of Minky (in the color 'rust', appropriately). The biggest challenge for this was leaning to use Ink/Stitch to create embroidery files for the eyes and for a little hidden nod to Can Ci Pin on his belly (陆林, the hanzi for the main ship in the novel). I opted for solid eyes rather than adding the highlight, both because it was easier for me to digitize and also looked cuter to me.
He's 'only' 80cm instead of the full meter, but the spirit is there, and he now lives on my bed - I haven't used him as a pillow yet, but it would be possible.
The backstory to this is the convergence of two things: 1) reading priest's novel Can Ci Pin/The Defectives, in which one of the two leads (who, to be clear, is an adult man, and also very relatable ADHD engineer vibes) has a 1m long stuffed crab he uses as a pillow sometimes, and 2) getting into Rust, a programming language that has an adorable crab named Ferris as it's unofficial mascot.
And someone had a pattern for a DIY stuffed Ferris. What if, I thought, I made a stuffed Ferris at the scale of Lu Bixing's giant crab plush. So I did.
I started by tracing the pattern to a vector in Inkscape, which I then scaled so that the bottom piece was 1m wide (though I forgot to account for the fact that stuffing things makes them taller but also narrower), and then printed it out tiled across a bunch of sheets of paper that I had to tape back together. The main body is cut out of Minky (in the color 'rust', appropriately). The biggest challenge for this was leaning to use Ink/Stitch to create embroidery files for the eyes and for a little hidden nod to Can Ci Pin on his belly (陆林, the hanzi for the main ship in the novel). I opted for solid eyes rather than adding the highlight, both because it was easier for me to digitize and also looked cuter to me.
He's 'only' 80cm instead of the full meter, but the spirit is there, and he now lives on my bed - I haven't used him as a pillow yet, but it would be possible.
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eeeeeee cute!
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He is also extremely soft, so sometimes when I am laying in bed half-awake I just reach over and pat him a few times.
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Thanks :D I love him a lot.
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A very good crab ♥
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Lots of practice, for sure - the Ink/Stitch stuff was the big new thing, though I've used other digitization software before. This was a good practice project, too, because it was two different types (satin stitch for the lettering, and then big fill areas for the eyes) - definitely prepped me for the more ambitious projects that followed.
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He is extremely friend-shaped
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Giant crab! He looks so squishy.
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He is extremely squishy - just enough stuffing to keep the shape, which is still a TON because he's Big. The last few plushes I've bought have been from custom group orders and man, they stuffed the hell out of those. Especially funny on the pair of 20cm dolls that also have extremely sculpted butts (which are like, rock-hard ahaha)
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They really stuffed those butts!
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Ooooh, we have that at our company! (Not at giant size, though. But. One of our - decidedly male - engineers sewed that crab.)
Your giant crab (pillow) is very very cute indeed, the eyes work extremely well, and I love how the arms/pincers are just hanging down, like, "what should I do next?" :D
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Ferris, breaking down gender stereotypes! Though the Rust community does seem to skew very liberal and queer, heh.
Just chillin', as you do :D
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A cutie!