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title: "Skully: Designer Notes"
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Version 3 of FreeSewing needed something special. We've had the Skully logo on all sorts of
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goodies. From measuring tapes to buttons, to cards. And Skully is all over the web site.
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But they are just a logo. There is no Skully you can pick up and hold. That is, until now.
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I wanted to make a Skully in 3D and give it to Joost for all of his work on the new site.
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And I couldn't do that without making a sewing pattern for it too. So this was the goal.
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I bought a plastic skull, a skull plushy (which I hated once I started looking at it more),
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and found a pattern for a skull. And I didn't like that pattern either.
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So what I ended up doing was taking paper, cutting it into pieces that were taped onto the
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plastic skull, and manipulated with darts and seams until I had something that looked somewhat
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like a skull. And with enough tweaking, I ended up with something that can be stuffed and
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maintain a shape that is a reasonable representation of Skully in 3D.
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The first real version that was not made for testing got decorated with hair, and together with a
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large needle was send to Belgium. After sitting at a Belgium customs office for 4 weeks, and some
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phone calls from me, urging them that it was not a thread to national security, it was delivered
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to Joost.
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And now you too can make a Skully.
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Wouter.
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