Meet, Eric

He's a pincushion

"I'm made out of an old sweatshirt."

Legal Name: Eric the Stoneman 
Date of birth: 10.4.2021

mock-ups and sketches

I started by hand sewing together his body and stuffing it with poly-fill. 

Making Process

I sewed his arms by tightly to the sides of the his body. After, I cut his hands out using a styrene stencil.

Then I made an internal structure out of styrene for his arms. I wrapped it with the same fabric and stuffed poly-fill in between for volume and cushion.

The two sides of each hand were sewn together and stuffed with poly-fill.
 

Finally, the hands were sown to the arms and I cut the eyes out of felt. I added a bead of hot glue under the pupil to give his eyes a little glimmer of life.

                                 And thus, Eric was born.
 

Eric hanging out with the other pincushions made by my classmates.
 

This was an assignment from my Junior year fall semester Industrial Design Soft Goods Special Topic Class taught by Prof. Leslie Fontana.