Hey guys I'm back home as you can see that I'm back in my usual setting and
today we're gonna be doing a pygmy puff cosplay tutorial. This is a full tutorial
so all of the bits that we're gonna be making are all gonna be explained here. It's
gonna be the most in-depth tutorial I've done, so bear with me and this would be
great for Halloween coming up and for any Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
events that you go to, anything like that that's coming up in the future this will
be a go-to costume - something a bit different, so I hope you guys like it.
This cosplay you're gonna need a few different items, the first and most
important is this. Now this is just pink fur you're going to need about meter of
that, so you can get that from pretty much any fabric stores and then you're
gonna need this. - I think this is like A3, a bit bigger than that - card in
light pink, two sheets of felt for the front of the piece, which um they can be
bought really cheaply from craft stores. I've got two just to be on the safe side
you may only need one. Some big googly eyes, some pink thread, some scissors, a
hot glue gun and of course your own little pygmy puffs to model them off. The
first part of this that we're going to be making is the front of the face. For
the pygmy puff's little face we're gonna be doing a sort of stuffed, almost the
cuddly toy version of their face, which is what we're gonna be using the felt
for. Now for this I didn't mention in the start but you're gonna need some toilet
paper. It's a really inexpensive and easy way to stuff things. This was a test
run that I did the other day which is really bad. Stuffing it with
other stuff is just a waste of money, so just stuff it with toilet paper because I'm
pretty sure everyone will have that in their homes. So let's get to work. Now
you're gonna want to take your felt and fold it in half because you're gonna
need sort of two sides of this in order to make the main shape. Now you're gonna
want to cut out - well you should probably draw the pencil first which, I'm not
gonna do because it worked out fine in my test run - you're going to want to have a
sort of oval type shape, pretty much an oval and you want it to be not too
big but fairly big.
Once you finish your cutting you should be left with these two soft oval shapes.
If it doesn't match your first or rough or not really right, because we're
just going to be stitching them together and it's not the end of the world. So what
you're going to want to do now is place them so that they're matching up, put the
side that you want to be facing outside facing the inside because we're gonna be
turning it inside-out once we finish stitching up. And what we're gonna do now
is you want to take your needle and thread and your pale pink cotton, thread your
needle, cut off you know a substantial amount but not too much, thread your
needle and we're just gonna stitch around the outside.
If you have a sewing machine feel free to whizz this through on the sewing machine.
You want to leave a little bit of a gap, just on one of the sides that you've got
room to stuff it and then turn it back inside out, but we are just gonna I'm
gonna show you hand stitching because I don't know if everyone's got a sewing machine
and hand stitching I think for this type of thing is just way easier. So you want
to take your thread, a lot of people knot their thread first, I don't I just
pull it through and then do a couple of stitches in the same place to sort of
keep it moving, but feel free to knot if you want. Now, if you've never sewn
before there are probably a ton of better tutorials on YouTube on how to
do a sort of basic running stitch. I'm not very good at showing you this, you
can either do a running stitch or a blanket stitch. In my practice I did a
running stitch initially but then had to go over it with a blanket stitch. I think
I'm gonna blanket stitch the whole thing. So the way a blanket stitch works, I will show
try and show you as much detail as I can. When you thread it you want to have
a sort of loop and so you're pulling it through that loop to get that sort of
effect and I'll do a couple to show you how it's supposed to look. Like I said
I'm really not the best person to be showing you how to do this and so if you
are unsure and my tutorial is really not very clear go check out
another blanket stitch tutorial but it should look something a little bit - my
camera won't focus - like that and it's basically you're doing a stitch next to
it and while you're pulling the needle and the thread through you're making
sure it goes before - I mean after - the thread that you've already got hanging
there, so it creates a sort of loop that it
goes through if that makes any sense at all.
So once you've sewn pretty much all the way around you should have a little gap
here and and now you're gonna want to turn this inside out. If your stitches
aren't strong like mine just be careful at this point you don't end up
ripping any of the work you just did. Fingers crossed that won't happen, this
can be a bit tricky. Feel free to you know knitting needles, I've used in the past
the end of scissors, just sort of, depending on what your shape's like may
need a bit of help just getting those end bits turned the right way. For
the stuffing... so you've got this little gap that's turned the right way so it looks sort
of neat to round the edges hopefully and you're just gonna want to take small
amounts at a time of your toilet paper and just put it in in the hole. Choose
the side that you want the face to actually be on because once you've got
the basic thing stuffed you're gonna want to have sort of a bit of a protruding
part from the nose which I'll be able to show you better than I can
explain it. Because in my practice run of this the other day and I sort of did an
add on bit for a nose and I just don't think it worked - I'll show you guys
adding on this front bit didn't look good, that was obviously terrible - now that this
is mostly stuffed, I know it looks really deformed at the moment but that's
because we haven't sewn up this top bit. This is gonna be the front so
I'm gonna add in some extra stuffing to give this sort of like a bump at the
front, if that makes sense. So there we have the sort of the nose now you're
just gonna want to do blanket stitch over this to close up the top then we're
ready to start working on the face, doing the ears and that kind of thing.
Now to embroider on the nose I'm using a sort of peachy color embroidery thread and
an embroidery needle. Now this isn't always necessary and I didn't mention it
to begin with because you can just use the normal thread that you were using
that's the pink of this and just double it up so it's a bit thicker. I'm
just going for this purely because I had it lying around in my sewing box
and I just think a bit thicker and a slightly different color might give a
better effect. This I'm not going to be using any sort of particular pattern or
stitching as such I'm just gonna go directly into the center. Now the pygmy
puffs, they have a sort of bow-shaped nose, it's sort of like an X actually. I
didn't explain that right. Sort of what I did on this one, but not really. It sort
of is like an X, isn't it? Well to me it looks like a bow but it arguable
looks like an X as well. Just doing some loose stitches to make this
sort of front nose bit and then I'll go off to do the sort of sides in a second, then
I'm just doing a single stitch off into the corner and I'm gonna do that four
times so down into that sort of X shape to give the nose. So that's what I've got
for the nose pretty much. Now the nose is done you're gonna want to be doing the
ears. You can just use the leftover scrap you've got from your main one depending
how big you made it. Make sure you get the same just do the same as we did
earlier, fold it over, and you just want to cut
out a sort of teardrop shape. You're going to want to fold them in a bit
like that to get the sort of shape. Now that you have your two teardrops you're just
gonna want to decide whereabouts on the head you want to place them. I'm gonna do
mine just in the corners here.
Now we have the two ears sewn on and it's not looking too bad so now it's
time for the hot glue gunning. If you don't have a hot glue gun
then PVA might work. Take your hot glue gun - mine's pink because it
matches my theme going here. I already stuck on the first eye, purely because I
hadn't realized that this had reached optimum temperature when I went to test out
on the eye, and it came straight out. Did I just get burnt? I think I did.
Be careful with your hot glue gun, guys. Hate to sound like a mum but be careful.
I'm pasting mine just to the side of the nose because they are I think more
sideways, they're not really directly on top of it. You just wanna squeeze
in a sort of circular manner. This is terrifying. When I was younger - I said
I was younger, I was in secondary school, I wasn't that much younger - and I someone
dropped hot glue gun on my ankle and we had to pull it off with the glue
attached to my skin and I've still got a scar so I use them with trepidation.
Um I mean he's a bit wonky looking but I think it's kind of cute, don't you think
guys? I mean I would agree. So you've got your card and you're gonna want to make
two circles out of this. I have cut my card in half that way I can put them on
top of each other to make sure they get exactly the same size and it's just way
more easy to manage. I think if it's covering - because the straps are gonna
come here - I think not some better good size and I think the flat tops work
because you're gonna be wearing pink underneath for the end of this cosplay
so I think this is a good size and I'm believes this is a stencil for my next
sheet so I have exactly the same going at back. You should have two pieces, same
size that look like this! Now for the fun part with fur. So you're gonna
take this and it's pretty easy just to get a metre of it. I will warn you though
right this is all over my bed just clumps and clumps of pink fur. What
you're going to want to do is work out how much. You're gonna
use what you've already cut out as a stencil.
I'm gonna be covering the boards. You're gonna need to take a hot glue gun - I want
to do it in steps, so gluing it bit by bit
is probably the way forward and I do this sort of bit by bit because um if
you do it the way I did, your glue's gonna run out and it's just not gonna be fun.
So I'm just going around the edges glueing, going in the middle. Now that
your piece is mostly glued on. now you're going to want to do exactly the same to
the back. What we're going to do now is be attaching the pygmy puff face, to the
centre, look there we've got our pygmy puff! So you're gonna need to hot glue
gun this I'm guessing, I've got fur in my mouth. Taking my hot glue gun and
praying that there is enough in here to glue my pygmy puff to the center and
you're gonna want to just slap that right in the middle of your fur and hope,
and I might actually do a few stitches in the back of mine just to keep it more
secure and firm because I can stitch into this fabric. It's looking pretty sweet
guys, I'm not gonna lie to you I'm impressed. So now that both your sides
are complete you're gonna want to do the straps.
I'm sello-taping the straps down but you can hot glue gun them if you, like me,
plan yours better and don't use up all of your glue. So I might cross strap the
back thinking about it so it's in across the back and straight up the front just for a
bit more security. This is it on. I'm really impressed with it. It's looking
cool. I might add in two pieces of ribbon at the sides just to keep it a little bit
more in, but I'm so so happy with how it turned out. For what to wear
underneath this - anything pink. I'm gonna go rummage around see what I
can find so I can try on the whole thing for you guys and show you the completed
look but this is essentially it. Now my original idea for underneath
this outfit was gonna be I've got this like kind of really bright pink like
shirt type thing, but this was all I could find. I've searched house for it
and I've got on white jeans and my pink platform converse, so I'll show you the
whole thing together now, and I just put a little bow my hair I'd probably wear
space buns with this outfit, but you know I'm just messing.
It's pretty much the finished look and I'm really happy with how it turned out
actually, way more pygmy puff-like than I anticipated so I'm really pleased and I
hope you guys had fun watching this and if you do attempt any of this send me
photos. You guys will probably be able to do it way better than I can and just as
a side note I initially sellotaped these straps, um instead I've poked holes in
the cardboard and tied two straps on because they kept and coming off with the
sello-tape. I mean if you hot glue gun them that probably wouldn't happen but I just
think tying them is probably a lot safer in the long run, it's what I did for my
Taylor Swift signs. So yeah I hope you guys enjoyed this and it was somewhat
informative. Bye!