Wormmon

Created by: fourfourfourfour

First you need to find an old pillow, because the old ones are easier to shape and work with. You can tell it's old if you bend it together hamburger style, and it won't spring back.

Next, get something to tie it with (i used ribbon because it's easy to tie and it is pretty durable) and tie a section for the head and the tail, as shown. Make sure the head is alittle bit bigger then the tail, cause it makes it more authentic.

Now you'll wanna tie down the little corners. tie each corner with some ribbon, and then pull it down so that you can then tie it to the ribbon that shapes the head or tail. This will make it smoother, more cuddly, and a heck of alot easier to work with when you put the fabric over it!

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NOTE! you should color all of the pieces of fabric BEFORE you sew them. This will give them a more even color.

The first thing you have to do is make fabric for the actual body. As we know, Wormon has those layers going across his back, so you will need to first make 5 strips that each go all the way around one fifth of his body.

Next, take each of those strips and cut them in half, so that now you have 10 strips. Then you'll sew them back together so that they form a circle with 2 sewing lines on each side. BUT, the purpose of this step is so that when you sew on the feet, you'll sew them over these lines, and it makes it easier to line up the feet more evenly. If you think that you can line them up without doing this, then go right ahead.

Now, making the claws. Cut out one triangle, about half the length of the body (horizontally), with a curved end (it won't matter what your end will look like 'cause it's going to be sewn on the inside of the green part of the foot.) use that first cut out to trace nine more triangles, so that they are all even. Take that first triangle, and also use it to cut out 10 triangles in a poster board.

Sew up the triangles so that they become cones, but don't sew the bottom. Tape the poster board triangles so that they become cones also, and put them inside the claws.

Now take your bottle of clear glue, and smear it all over your 10 claws. This will make them feel more like bug claws, and let them dry over night, or for the rest of the day.

Now you need to make the last part of the leg. This will be prett simple, so don't worry. Cut out a rectangle, with the short side also half as long as the body, and the long side long enough to fit over the end of the claw. Make nine more the same way, and sew the ends together to make a cylinder.

Once your claws have finished drying, fit the bottom edge inside the cylinder and sew them together. Next, take your cotton, and stuff the leg until it's good and firm.

Now what you need to do is take your new leg, line it up so that one of the sewing lines of the body strips goes across it's middle, and sew it like that, then do it again with another lef for the other side of the same body strip. MAKE SURE THE SEWING LINES ON THE LEG ARE FACING DOWN. I FOUND THIS OUT TOO LATE, AND LET ME TELL YOU, IT IS A HUGE PAIN TO HAVE TO REDO THESE! making them face downward makes them look better.

Do this for each of the legs and body strips. Then, wrestle all the body srips onto the actual body, and line them up evenly.

Next, sew each of the body strips together, so that it looks like wormmon's layers. BUT you shouldn't sew together directly between the legs, or else it won't be as easy to hold and move when your done.

Make the antennas first. Simply take two strips of fabric, about the length of the neck to the end of the tail, and twice as wide as you would like it to be. I made mine just straight with no points or curves because it's just easier that way. Anyhow, line up cotton balls on one half of the fabric, and then fold the other end over it and sew it together. Make sure the cotton is packed nice and firm so that there's no empty space. DO NOT sew the very top yet, because you'll still need to do stuff with the antennas.

there's going to be three or so folds that come up when your making the fabric for the head round. cut them off so that it's rounded, and then sew it together again. cut 2 slits on the top of the head for his antennas to go, fit them in so that some of the antenna fabric is inside the head, and sew it from the inside.

Fit the fabric layer over the head, and tuck the end of it into the body strips. Sew it like that. THIS PART IS GOING TO LOOK SLOPPY, BUT DON'T WORRY, THERE'S A WAY TO MAKE IT LOOK BETTER THAT YOU'LL DO LATER ON.*

Now take your coat hanger wire, and cut it so that it's somewhat bigger then the actual antenna, and fit in inside, but not before filing down the end that will be on the top of the antenna-LEAVE THE BOTTOM PART SHARP. Now here comes a tricky part to explain. Once the wire is all the way inside, you're going to twist and push it so that it goes into the actual pillow part. Once it's in, try to bend that end of it in a sort of hook position so that it won't come back up. Do the same for the top part, and then make a few stitches at the arch of the hook so that now you're even more sure that it won't come up or down.

Cut out a simple oval for the mouth, a bit bigger then the purple-pinkish part of the foot. Place it in the lower middle of the face, so that it overlaps and hides the part where all three of the flap corners meet. Sew this to not just the fabric, but the pillow too, twice, but leave a small area at the bottom open so that you can stuff the mouth with cotton, so that it's not flat. Sew that small part close.

Now it's time to make it neater. All you need to do is sew down the little flaps that are left over, and you will barely be able to see them at all (so long as you use white thread, otherwise it's like a Frankenstein Wormmon!) If you don't understand what I mean, feel free to ask for more details or pictures.

**Okey-dokey, time for coloring! Now you NEED to do this with a pencil first. I don't care how good you are at drawing, you HAVE to use a pencil first. It's just that it's easy to mess up drawing in general, and where you're supposed to draw the face, and it'd be a shame if after all this work, then you do one small stupid drawing that you can't undo, and make it look bad. So you can just Google a picture of Wormmon, and work from that or whatever, there's not much direction except to draw the eyes, then the little mark on his forehead, then all the green while either working outside, or wearing something to cover your face, cause the fumes get kinda nasty.

And now, you have the option to cover the mouth and eyes with glue to make them hard, and more realistic. But I didn't do this, because it makes it somewhat less cuddly.

There will be a step for the tail, so don't do that if you, for whatever reason, have already finished this step before I post the it.

* Another way is to use the outline used to make fabric balls, just run a search on google for fabric ball tutorials.

**If you have been using colored fabric that you can't draw on, then just use transfer paper for the eyes. Find a picture of wormmon, photoshop him so you'll only print out his eyes, and test-print them out on normal paper until you are sure they're the right size.

For the tail, you can either use the same step for the head, or this next step. What happened with me is I did the tail first, but kinda sorta messed it up, and for the longest time, I couldn’t figure out how to do the head. So if you think you can do another head for the tail, then that would probably be the smarter choice.

For this tail, you first need to outline one side of the tail onto your fabric, making sure when you cut it out that it’s somewhat bigger then the actual outline so that it’ll fit, and then use that to cut out a second side.

Now that you have your two sides, you sew them together, except at the bottom.

Set that aside for a bit, and move onto the pincher things. The actual shape is something like a banana, only smaller and sharper. Do the same thing you did for the tail step, and cut out two sides (about an inch longer then the actual pinchers will be on the bottom. That bottom inch will be where you’ll sew it onto the tail.) Before you sew it together, line up one side with you cotton, and then put the second half on top, like a sandwich, and sew it until you get to your extra inch.

Do that for both, and then color them pinkish-purple, except for the extra inch, which you’ll color lime green.

Before you sew on the pinchers, you should color the part of the tail you’ll be sewing on beforehand. Keep in mind to color the little black circle that goes around the tail (I almost forgot to do that part when I was making this). Now that that’s done, and the two pinchers are very firm from the cotton, you take the extra inch flaps, and, like a sandwich again, you put one flap on the top of the tail, and then one over the bottom, and sew. SEW THEM SO THAT THEY’RE FLAT AND APART AND HORIZONTAL, NOT FLAT AND STRAIGHT. You can add glue onto the pinchers if you want to make it more real, but you don’t have too.

So now that your pinchers are sewn on tight, you should now put the fabric over the pillow part. This is a bit of a tricky part, so make sure you don’t damage any of your stitches, like I did.

To make double sure your stitches will be okay, smear glue over where it seems to be ripping. Not just for the tail, but for anywhere. It makes a great reinforcement.

Now connect the end of your tail to the end of the body fabric, and sew then together. It’s probably a good idea to use that glue trick on each end of the body fabric, next to the head and tail, because those places tend to rip easily.

After you’re finished sewing, color the tail. This is another stinky part, so make sure you open the windows.

A very huge thanks to fourfourfourfour from Deviantart for letting us use these patterns.