Crafty Cosplay- It's Adventure Time!

 This post will be a bit of a diversion from the last few- nothing new has happened with my lovely bicycle aside from some parts arriving.

It is instead about one of my other interests- sewing. Geeky sewing to be precise.

My boyfriend and I are intending to cosplay Marshall Lee and Fionna from Adventure Time. And I wanted to make sure that we had something to hold in our hands!

Given that my skills are not really in woodworking, and I had no room in order to make a large prop I didn't want to make Marshall Lee's guitar...

Here is a clue as to what I made!

I was fairly confident after figuring out how to make a Fionna hat using a handy tutorial on DeviantArt and also making a tiny cake plush out of felt (Both of which I will share another time) that I could make this for my boyfriend.

 
 I decided to make the entirely adorable Hambo!

 Although so far only shown with Marceline in the Finn and Jake episodes, I felt that having a Hambo plush to carry around was too great an opportunity to pass up (And everybody has a beloved toy when they are younger, Marshall Lee surely included.)

Working with no pattern and just a couple of reference pictures did make my life tricky, given my lack of experience!

 Along with entirely sewing him by hand making me wish I had room to set up a sewing machine...

But he is now finished! And I am beyond proud heh. Yesterday I painted on his purple stain- see left hand side! Using fabric paint and a rough template I cut out.

His bandage on his leg was made by staining a thin regular blanket (brand new!) with chai tea- it smells pretty delicious.

His body is made of fleece and his patches of felt. Where it hopefully appears that his stuffing is coming out, it is in fact cream fleece that I stitched on and padded underneath to attempt to create the look without the potential mess and difficulty using actual stuffing would do.

Some how the body was one of the hardest parts to do, especially matching it in size with the head! At one point I had to rip his first body apart and re cut/ size it to make sure he looked more proportionate.


On his back I made sure to put his bum buttons! Even if not necessarily understanding their purpose...

In this picture you can also see photo bombing dog, my fabric paint and my sample fleece where I experimented with methods of application!

I'll end this post with a picture of his adorable smiling face. Such a cheerful dear despite having survived the apocalypse!

The Adventure Time Wiki has some great pictures of Hambo which I used as inspiration if you want to check out how Hambo is supposed to look! (Please don't judge mine too harshly heh.)