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tj-crochets · 28 days ago

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Hey! This might be a weird ask, but do you know anywhere that has Cambrian sewing patterns? I’ve been trying to track down a wiwaxia or anomalocaris, but no joy. Thanks in advance!

Hey! Not a weird ask at all, and I swear I've seen one for an anomalocaris before but I can't remember where?? I'll take a look and see what I can find, and hopefully someone will see this that has a link to a pattern Edit: So good news bad news, I did find the anomalocaris plush I was thinking of, but the designer has not shared the pattern. Good news is it looks really simple to design a pattern for a simplified version of it? I'd just need to handstitch on the curved front...not legs and use the same technique I use to make spider legs without having to sew each leg individually (topstitching, but maybe also pleating) Can you reblog this with some reference photos of anomalocaris? anomalocarises? I do not know enough about them to be able to distinguish which ones are good references

#ask away!#jenni-with-an-i #I am not much of a dinosaurs person #and like. I know there's a good chance neither of those are dinosaurs #but I do not know the correct term for them if they are not dinosaurs so idk how to word that sentence?#so please put the correct word in that sentence in place of dinosaurs if you know it #but anyway: I am not much of a dinosaurs person but I like pretty much every kind of creature I learn about #and I am delighted at the thought of getting to learn about these ones while I search for patterns! :D #editing tags to add: it might be a little weird that I am so excited to make a pattern for this creature I know nothing about #but it is so shaped! it is SO so shaped #and super distinctive things like this are FUN to make patterns of #because you can play a little more with proportions and stylization and still have it be recognizable #when I used to crochet more I'd made a little doll pattern #and I used it to make a few characters but then when I was trying to use it to make some characters #I ran into what I called the 'guy in a t shirt and jeans' problem #which is that at a tiny scale if the character is just a dude wearing a t shirt and jeans it's very very difficult to make them #be distinctively them as a tiny plushie instead of a number of other dudes in shirts and jeans #no such problem with the anomolocaris!

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