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.
Lastly filled the head and body with stuffing and sewed the the head to the body.
I soldered 4 LED lights and attached ping pong balls to the lights for a more distributed lighting.
Thank you for reading!
