I’m making a Clydesdale using a vintage sewing pattern, I’ve chosen mohair and wool furs and it’s stuffed with wool, too. The tail and mane are made with sheep hide offcuts from a tannery on Skye (Skye Skyns). I’m waiting for some glass eyes to arrive.
There’s a little polyester for the hoofs and the sewing thread I used is a polycotton blend. Other than that, it’s natural fibres (but not vegan).
He’s called Carnera after the locally famous Irn Bru horse.
Everyone’s been a big fan of this pattern, but sadly it doesn’t seem to be available online anymore as the website I downloaded it from has vanished into the aether.
For Carnera I printed the pattern ½ size and added seam allowance. If you print it full size it’ll be a bit bigger!
Here’s the latest update on Carnera. Still waiting for eyes, put sand bags in his feet so he’s more poseable and doesn’t fall over as easily. Also “braided” his mane.
Clydesdale updates:
His eyeballs arrived! They’re little glass traditional teddy eyes with wire backs. I also re-did his mane braid. I’m going to find/make some little horse shoes for him and then I think he will be done!
(thick French accent) “On big project like that, this part can get very messy, so we usually build some kind of crazy plastic room straight out of an episode of Dexterrr.” I’m losing my mind.
This feels like a video from the wrong universe. He’s not supposed to speak, we just watch him do magic then seethe slightly.
Even Weird Al has had that™
experience with Tony Hawk
Tony Hawk IS Forrest Gump
So I looked up why and how this happened, and it turns out Weird Al hired a company called Birdhouse Skateboards to provide some “skate/punk” extras for the video. Birdhouse Skateboards is a company started by Tony Hawk, so not only did Weird Al end up putting Tony Hawk in his video without realizing it, he actually hired Tony Hawk’s company without realizing it! And then Tony Hawk just decided to go along as one of the extras himself.
BTW, he’d already won like 40 contests already, some of them international skateboarding contests. So it’s not like Weird Al cast some unknown skateboarder who ended up becoming World Famous Skateboarder, he was already well known and was running his own Skateboarding company.
Think of it this way. This wasn’t ‘Weird Al got Tony Hawk to be in his video’, this was ‘Tony Hawk found a way to be in a Weird Al Video.’
The chance that Tony Hawk has infiltrated your location or piece of media is low
