Miss Piggy - Kermit Dress #9

trying out the hood

After basting the middle seam on both the outer and inner hood layers, I machine sewed them together. I trimmed the seam allowance to about 1 cm, and hand basted both sides together, leaving a 20 cm opening at the back of the neck. Then I machine sewed it, trimmed the allowances to 1cm and scored the curves, and turned it. Then I pinned the back opening together, and top stitched it, about 5 mm from the edge.

I marked where the hood and collar would join, and tacked them together by hand, leaving an opening in the back, where I top stitched the hood. This opening is for the wig to fall through it. It's canon, just like Miss Piggy's hood.

reinforcing the inside of the eyes

The eye spheres are a bit fragile and tend to crack, to reinforce them, I added a layer of painter's tape to the inside. Then I made some loops with wire, 3 for each eye, and taped them to the inside of the eyes with foam tape, mostly because it's strong.

adding wire loops and filling to the eyes

Then I cut a styrofoam ball I had laying around in half, and also glued it to the (double sided) tape. I'll probably replace it later with a bigger ball, so everything fits snuggly. The initial plan was to glue the eyes to the hood, but then I thought if I ever have to wash it for some reason, the eyes could get ruined in the wash. So I made those wire loops to be able to sew them to the hood.

the finished hood with the Kermit eyes and Piggy ears

So I did. I had to adjust them first, but then I sewed them to the hood, picking up both fabric layers. Then I sewed the ears to the hood, with a slip stitch in matching peach pink thread. To help it stay put, on top of the wig, I sewed a small comb to the inside of the hood, on top of the head. Et voilá! The hood is DONE!

+ I'm pretty happy with the final result, even if I'm not 100% happy with the ears. It was an easy make all in all, and it looks cute!

- As I said, I'm not 100% happy with the ears, and I'd like to add a better filling and fastening to the eyes, and some felt to the bottom, but I'll leave it like this for now...

THE CUNNING PLAN

Hem the gloves. Trim the wig.