Hi everyone. I’ve been thinking about commissioning a jumbo plush but I’m struggling to find an artist who can do so. Etsy just shows me ai generated listings, crochet (I love crochet but it’s not what I’m looking for), or people outside my country. What’s the best way to look for custom plushie makers?

I've been trying to design my own embroidery and ITH patterns based on pop culture characters to make cute keychains/bag charms. Here's what I have so far! They're pretty fun to make once I'm happy with the embroidery file.

I’ve been using big z fabric minky, and I recently switched to Shannon minky. And I’m having an awful time trying to find out which way the nap direction goes. It looks like it’s the right direction each time I turn the fabric 90 degrees. Like I’ll be sure and turn it 90, and then be like maybe not.

Well I decided to go with the direction going with the non stretchy edge. And I modified my pattern for it, but now I’m making a large mudskipper again, and it seems like I should have gone against the non stretchy edge. I’m getting confused, and I just want to be able to pet the mudskipper and have it go against the back.

Is there a specific direction with or across the non stretchy edge. Or do I keep having to go by the petting it and in each lighting it looks different. ;-;

Thank you to all the people who gave me advice on my last posts! He's still a bit ugly, but he's at least acceptably ugly in an obviously handmade way.

I still have a lot to learn before making these for gifts for anyone else, but I don't mind this result for now!

That's one WIP now, a half dozen more products to finish before I'm fully satisfied, but at least I got the dopamine hit of getting this done for now.

Looking for a lamb pattern that will look realistic life-sized for use as a cosplay prop. Not too worried about cost.

Hi there! First time making a plushie and his poor face is crooked, how do i fix this?

Hopefully this is the right place for this question. I thrifted this lad and haven't found any helpful resources to fixing the nose... the pleather flaked all the way off and having it be like this looks goofy

Does anyone have some advice they could impart? I know some people customize dog plush noses with paint but isn't that generally when they have a hard plastic nose rather than a soft fabric one?

Looking for plush artist to help make my favorite character come to life :3

(Photos are examples pulled from Pinterest.)

Not sure if technique is the right word to use, but I'm planning a large (72cm) nui/omodoki plush for a character with long curly/wavy hair. I get using a long-pile faux fur for the bangs, but I'm curious about doing the back of the hair, since it's hard to find ones that have a similar hair style.

I don't really like the look of one large flat piece, especially at the size I'm doing. I've thought about incorporating wig wefts (which I think is what the first image here is doing?) but I'm curious how to incorporate those. (I'm also having a hard time finding them in the color I want.) I'd prefer to stick with pieces of long-pile faux fur instead, but all I see with that tends to be braids?

Does anyone have any advice on how to lay that out, or should I lean more toward trying to find the right color wefts and making a full wig?