Gudrun’s Ram Plush Light

Here is my completed Ram Plush Light. I’m so happy with the outcome!

I did this ram to have an item that reminds of Iceland. I wanted it to look good be an aesthetic item in your house. I wanted it to be clean and minimalistic. My target users are people that just moved to the city from a small town. I wanted to embody the feeling of warmness when the ram’s body lights up.

Materials

Faux Fur
Vinyl
Zipper
Stuffing
Velcro
3D filament
4 LED lights
Battery Pack
Electric wire
Needle and thread
Sewing Machine
Soldering Equipment
Brown paper
Pen
Scissors

Journey

My biggest challenge for this project was doing the head. I have never sewn a head before and I had to do a lot of research to learn how to make one. I tried finding similar plushes to see how they did the head and it just came out a bit weird.

I have never attached a 3d printed item to a soft material and I found out that there were many ways to do it. I decided to use velcro for this project.

If I would do this again I would probably sew the horns to the rams head, I would also change the horns to a more neutral cream brown color. I would also make the feet a bit larger (make the cylinders wider). Lastly I would sew a bit more heads to get the perfect shape.

Process

I started sketching out shapes of brown paper, cut them out, and traced them to the fabric making sure there was a bit of seam allowence. Then I hand sewed them together.

I did the body 2 times because when I sewed the feet to the stomach it was kind of akward so I redid the stomach shape and handsewed it together again. I wanted to have a zipper because I wanted to be able to switch out batteries easily.

To do the feet I cut out 4 circles and 4 rectangles and sewed the rectangle and circle together to make cylinders.

I did the head 3 times because I was never happy with it. First it was a very akward shape and the second one was too round and big. For the third one I cut out egg shaped brown paper and glued them together to see if the shape makes sense. The third one turned out perfect!

I 3d printed horns from https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2992251 , I resized it down to 70%. I bought Velcro and cut out circles to attach them to the head.