Back in high school, before I realized that I suffered from
a bad case of video-game-induced motion sickness, I used to be crazy about all
sorts of video games. Luckily my affliction does not extend to anything 2-D so I
can at least stick to my good old fall-back gameboy games.
Hence I was really chuffed when my friend loaned me a copy
of Legend of Zelda for gameboy, which got me really hooked on that series.
One of my new friends totally loves octopus and loves
dressing up as a knight and bashing people, which inspired me to make him a
cthulhu knight plushie...
He’s made the same way all the regular ones are made…with
added extras….
I decided to go with a ‘chainmail look’. Obviously getting
hold of a lot of chains was a bit out of my price range for the moment, but I did
have a bag of gold sequins lying around…so it was essentially something of a
no-brainer to create the armour by hot glueing rows and rows of sequins onto
him. In hindsight, considering how easy it was to burn the tips of my fingers
and how long it took to complete both sides, I probably should have gone with
buying actual chains and cutting them to the right length instead. The ideal
method would have been to use sequined fabric though….
Given that no knight is complete without his shield, I
decided to make the shield out of white felt with a painted design. I used two
layers stuck together with fabric glue in order to give it some ‘stiffness’,
whilst it was off to
ehow.com to find out the best way of adding the design with the acrylic paint that I had lying around....
Turned out rather well for a first attempt at painting on felt...
