Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Stitching a Glovetopus”.
Hey i’m laura from make hi I’m Peter Peter Gardner. Well, we are making a glove to pie here. It’S a stuffed octopus made from a pair of gloves it’s just two gloves, and so so the essential the essential love to post nature is. Is that it’s a pair of gloves with the wrist and the thumb cut off, and so you sew it together stuff. It up and then flip it out like that, and you got a glove to puss. It’S so simple.
I love it, it is. It is it’s. I think there’s like a magical moment when you, when you’ve sewn everything together and you have it – you have it in your like what is this thing? Okay, it kind of looks like it, but then the flip it.
It’S really magically transformed from a pair of gloves into an octopus. I think that’s the funniest part. So so how did you did you come up with this design? I did yeah and was it just experimentation? It was um. There’S a.
I believe a woman in in Washington who makes a who makes a product called the octopus, and that is a soft monkey version of an octopus, and so you take the you, take the Rockford redhill gloves and you make the body, and then you make these long. Dangly, arms for it and it’s it’s really really cute, and I am I made a couple of them and then I had a pair of gloves and I’m like. I know I know I can do this so so I played around with it for a little while – and this is the this is actually one of – I guess three different creatures – that I’ve made out of socks or gloves.
We have this one. We have the soft billed platypus, that’s adorable yeah, it’s really cute, and then we also have the eldritch or gloves Sulu from the you know, HP, Lovecraft novels and we’re actually going to be doing a glove. Thullu workshop one glove through the workshop for maker faire and that’s going to be sunday at 4pm sunday at 4pm, don’t miss it.
I think it’s really cool that you guys are are letting people make them for free too thanks Liam. So last year was the first year that we did it and it was my 40th birthday and I’ve come to maker faire a lot, and I thought it was really great, but a really frequent complaint that people have is that everything kind of costs money you know Or at least there are a lot of things that cost money and that was sort of what that was what I didn’t like how I go. I just like to kind of make stuff, and so I thought for my 40th birthday, my party would be to make club to buy with people, and last year we had between three and four hundred people make make love to pie. That’S awesome. Everyone looks like they’re having a really good time cool. Well.
Thank you so much thank you have a good, fair thanks, but I .