I started on several Lemmings-related sewing projects prior to the announcement of the upcoming official merchandise (I have a policy of not making items where official merchandise is available), but I haven't yet had the time to finish them all. Today I was able to finish one of them - a small screen cleaning pad.
I started with the below image of a dancing lemming. This originally came from page 121 of the June 1993 issue of Amiga Computing magazine, from a piece promoting this song, and I removed as much of the background as I could.
A little bit of yellow remains around some parts of the outlines, but this was never going to show once it had been printed onto white fabric.
I sewed the printed piece to a swatch of blue short-pile plush fabric, and once I added stuffing, I ended up with a two-and-a-half inches tall screen cleaning pad.
Annoyingly, I accidentally cut the seam allowance a little too close after the stitching was done, and this resulted in a few small seam pops after turning it right-side out, which were a bit of a nuisance to fix. That aside, I'm really pleased with it.
Dancing Lemming screen cleaning pad
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Re: Dancing Lemming screen cleaning pad
Looks great!
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Re: Dancing Lemming screen cleaning pad
He is really cute,
Was it difficult to print it?
Was it difficult to print it?
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Re: Dancing Lemming screen cleaning pad
Thanks very much, guys.
Not at all, but that's just because I had it printed at Spoonflower, in some spare space at the edge of one of my other (also unfinished) projects. I used the Performance Knit fabric, as it's my favourite of their offerings due to the fact that it has great colour reproduction, and doesn't really fade when washed.CitrusOda wrote:Was it difficult to print it?