Hand-Sewn Hand Puppets for Beginners: Simple Sewing Techniques to Create Your Own Cloth and Felt Puppets
Two puppets, one pattern, and no sewing machine anywhere in the process.
Most puppet-making books are written for children with paper and glue, or for performers who already know how to sew. This one is written for an adult who wants to sit down at a kitchen table with a needle and make something that moves.
Every measurement in the book is worked out from two measurements of your own hand, so the finished puppet fits the person who made it. You draw one master pattern in Chapter 2 and use it for both projects and for anything you design afterwards.
What you will build
- The Woodland Fox - an animal puppet with a mitten head, built straight from the master pattern
- The Storyteller - a character puppet with a stuffed head on a neck tube, hands, hair and a collar
- Accessories - hair three ways, a wrap tunic, a scarf, an apron, a cone hat, a shoulder bag, a cape and a hood
Inside the book
- A full list of tools with the fourteen that are actually worth buying first marked as a starter kit
- Six stitches, each with its own worked instructions, and a one-page stitch card to keep beside you
- Cutting layouts that get both projects out of the fewest felt sheets
- A face map with eye spacing, mouth drop and eyebrow angles given as measurements, not as guesswork
- Twenty-six faults with the cause and the fix for each, from a floppy head to a puppet that will not go on your hand
- Storage, cleaning and repair, including what actually destroys a puppet in a cupboard
- Four movements that are the whole vocabulary of using a hand puppet
Written for absolute beginners. No machine, no pattern sheet to lose, no prior sewing experience assumed. Felt is forgiving: almost every mistake in this book can be unpicked and made again on the same piece.
This book was created using artificial intelligence tools. Its text, illustrations and cover artwork are AI-generated. Any people shown in the illustrations are AI-generated and do not depict real individuals.
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