Making Mudscamps

jamiefetch:

I have a friend who enjoys sewing these little dragon creatures from the Homestuck series called scalemates. Eventually it inspired me enough to try my own hand at sewing, even though I’m terrible. I wanted to pick something that would be easy to make over and over again for practice, and that’s when I decided on mudscamps.

Mudscamps are little guys from a recent episode of Adventure Time. They’re multicolored and appear to have squishy fish bodies and walk around in the mud on little legs. I can only assume they’re supposed to be similar to mudskippers.

Here’s what I’ve come up with so far. I really like them as a collection, but they do look kind of weird individually. I’d like to start making each one more personalized and give them to friends. My only fear is that these guys will be connected to Darwinism fish by people who haven’t seen them on the show. The last thing I want is for people to think I’m trying to make some kind of political or religious statement with a bunch of poorly-made plush toys!