 Hey guys, so I wanted to bring you one more zombie doll movie video If you've been following me on social media, you know, I've been making the four horsemen at the apocalypse So this is conquest This is famine or pestilence and this is war and I'm working on the last one, which is death each one has the horse and rider According to mythology and I I was raised Roman Catholic So I'm using the Roman Catholic version of the four horsemen of the apocalypse just FYI So conquest was on a white horse and he's carrying a bow and arrow wearing a crown Famine or pestilence again depending on which version you read I was on a black horse and carrying scales I kind of like the idea of him being a combination of both. So he's also covered in flies, you know Famine pestilence death. Yeah And then war is on a red horse and he carries a sword So and then for death my notes say A pale green horse and then I'm gonna put him with a black cloak and a sith Yeah, I've already made the prop. I'm gonna use some of this creepy cloth halloween cloth for his cloak and I've been the horse and riders the same color. I also printed a Description of what I've done and why I've done it onto some printer. This is some June Taylor Printer fabric inkjet printer fabric. It's are on a adhesive paper sheet and it's meant to run through your printer. It's water resistant And I've done these in response to the worldwide pandemic in situation in 20 here in 2020 It's just my way of you know tongue-in-cheek working through the stress and I've named each Oh see this one is wrong. Oh Cold cold. Yep. So look that's wrong. It should say death. I forgot to edit So I'm gonna have to cross that out and write death in no, that'll be a funny thing. Anyway, so I've named the Which one it is in each one of the descriptions again, this one's wrong, so we'll have to change up it Don't worry about it right now. Anyway, I wanted to show you this first part. So on all of these kind of dolls You use my pad. I've been using the pattern I have in my Etsy shop. It's a PDF download It's a number of pages and I include Materials used Directions pictures of some Dolls that I've made as part of this pattern and some dolls I made Felt art dolls I made prior to this. I used to make a lot of these and I Include the patterns for the art dolls. I Also use the same pattern to create the doll body just the base and then paint the face and features on and made a doll out of that So I've include all of those different pattern pieces Including some stitching guides and the rib guides for the ribs for the both the horse and the Figures and I cut all my pattern pieces out of some kind of cardstock or something So I can have them handy for the ribs I made sort of a little template that I lay down on the felt and then I trace around and then I cut the pieces out What you see for the horse down here So you and you get all of these different patterns including the skull a blood drop The original felt just because I'm on camera now. I'm having trouble Original felt doll body patterns including wings if you want to make an angel one There's a long video on how to do the basic dolls here on YouTube already I have added the pattern for the horse to the back Which includes the body the mane the tail the ears and all the skeleton pieces and again for both the horse ribs and the Figure ribs. I've just created a little template out of this part And then I had laid it over the fabric and trace it and then cut it I Realized as I was making the last one of these dolls that when I did the original instruction video Which I'll link in the description below. I don't think I did the skeleton on there So I wanted to show you how I did that So I cut all the little bones out and then I use either a Sew line fabric basing glue stick or you can use Elmer's washable school glue to baste your Skeleton pieces onto your body That's kind of the part for the moment that I wanted to show you how to do today So once you have them all fussy cut out put your mane and your tail and your ears aside And the procedure is the same even for the person skeleton as it is for the horse So I usually kind of lay them out roughly where I want them and then Put a little bit of the glue on the back and then stick it down and it sticks it down just good enough To hold it there for when you do the stitching because we are going to stitch them down This is just temporary to hold them in place Bone Skeleton whatever you want to call it and just put a little glue on the back These are to symbolize this of course the backbone the spine and just get them all I already did that This one, but I did it the same way Now again, these are temporarily stuck down So if you don't like where they are or don't like like for instance, that looks like a really big It's a little too big. So I'm gonna give it a trim and Then you're all ready to stitch the bones on okay, so we'll be doing that next I'll be back. Okay, once you get everything basted then it's time to sew the bones down Just like with other doll projects that I do I like to get all of the decorations done on the front of the doll before I assemble said doll. I Do all the different doll things that I do that way For the most part, I'm gonna separate my six strand embroidery floss into three and three I like a long thin large-eyed embroidery needle for the most part I like the what is it Shisiko needle I don't know how to pronounce it into Japanese needle. I don't think this is actually one of them I think that's one of them, but this one is very similar It's a little bit longer So you just use what you like, but I like a very sharp, but very long needle It's easier for me to hold so I'm going to take just the front half of the doll where the bones are basted and Zoom in just a little bit lighting is a little weird today, but you know It's the apocalypse. So I'm gonna start from the bottom and I've tied a knot in the end of the embroidery floss I'm gonna come up right there right there. I'm gonna go out Straight across from there in the green and just do a little tacking stitch. You see that I'm gonna do those all the way around the outside all the way around the eyeballs all the way around the ribs the Center bones the arm bones the leg bones all of it. So once you're done You're gonna see how you're gonna have it all stitched on around here and the ribs and the leg bones on him I added an eyeball over it as after I was done the plastic eye is glued on with E6000 And then I stitched on an eyelid This one conquest has it without so I'm gonna get the bones stitched on on the Person the rider and the horse Just the bones they're sewn on the same way and then I'll be back Okay, guys. We are here. We're going to continue working on The last of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, which is death It is the next day from when we started and I am trying to get used to Going back to filming with my video camera and not my telephone Which for whatever reason I started doing at the beginning of 2020 and the crazy Things that started happening anyway Hopefully I wasn't out of frame too much with some of the prior clips, but just in case just to review And if I was please forgive me I will try to show you the blanket stitch When we start doing the assembly again just in case but to review we attached all the bone pieces to the front of our person our rider and our horse We just did simple straight tacking stitches around all the little pieces of felt bone after we had not only cut them out but Um basted them to the felt body piece with some Elmer's Washable school glue, which is a good alternative if you can't find or can't get these so line Basting glue stick and this is intended for sewing projects But Elmer's washable school glue will work too and that's more easy to find and probably a little cheaper so we Used some cream colored ecru colored a DMC floss To attach all the bones to our body pieces and we did that yesterday then I took two pieces of the tail pattern for the horse and I blank it stitched around the edge of the piece leaving a little bit of an opening here and I stuffed a little bit of polyfill inside there Before I completed sewing it shut Then I did something similar to the mane. This is the main piece that goes on his head and As I was sewing it shut here at the bottom. I attached the two ears of the horse So now we're ready to put our Figure pieces both together. I went out this morning I've got some more floss because I was out of this I didn't this is all this green color that I have and I needed a little more so We are going to Put our pieces together I'm going to use all six strands of this DMC floss now The felt that I'm using is from a Etsy shop called Benzi designs and they have a wool blend felt I do prefer to work with wool felt I like the way it feels and handles and stitches better than acrylic felt that being said you can use acrylic felt There's nothing wrong with that But Benzi has some great colors and they have this very pale color green That's pistachio and this color for the bones that I'm using on this one. I think it's called parchment I found this DMC floss, which is almost an exact match to the green in the pistachio felt and this is color 3348 Okay, so we're going to start with the person and I'm going to I'm going to match up the pieces here as best I can now I like to leave a space usually what I'm doing is I leave a space up here at the head So I usually start Somewhere here and I've tied a knot at the end of my embroidery floss I'm going to come up between the two layers of felt About a quarter inch or so away from the edge and pull Which will hide that knot in between the layers Then I'm going to go around to the back second layer and go through the second layer and the top layer and Come out that same place where the thread went in that first time. I'm going to just pull Okay You'll have this kind of little loop here Then I'm going to go about a quarter of an inch away and go up from the back through both layers of felt Before I pull it all the way tight. I'm going to put the needle underneath that loop That'll make this little bar here That's diagonal When we get to the end, we're going to pull on this and we're going to make it flat like that so Pull it tight Pull it taut but not tight when you're doing these blanket stitches You're going to be stuffing the doll and it'll put a lot of strain on the doll if you pull your Stitches too tight. So again, we're going to go about a quarter of an inch away up from the bottom through both layers We're going to put the needle through the loop before you pull it tight And it's going to make this like bar around the edge of the doll Just like we did with the mane and tail pieces We're going to go all the way around the doll and I'm going to do that. I'm going to go all the way around I'm going to stop about here and then stuff the doll and then sew it closed So I'll be back when I get to about here. All right Okay Now we're going to stuff the doll And I use this kind of fluffy stuffing That's like crumbly and I preferred this this particular kind of stuffing I don't ever remember what the name of it is but yeah, I preferred this kind But anyway, I'm going to stuff it and I usually do all the extremities first and then work my way back up towards the head I just find that's easier Take the needle off so I don't jab myself and just push it all down. I do have this This stick this isn't my grandmother sewing box. I got to think it's some kind of lace making thing I don't know what it is. But anyway, it works good for stuffing dolls Let's see if you have these stitches pulled too tight then the bars of the blanket stitch end up like too far towards the back Or the front and they're a little wonky So that's why you don't want to pull your blankets to just too tight and when you stuff it it gets all weird So I'm going to get him all stuffed And then we'll be back when it's time to sew him together He's all stuffed. So now we need to sew his head closed And add another piece of floss, which is fine And I just leave the little little ends out like that It's a zombie doll, so I think it just adds something to the texture of the doll It's what I call a cute knot. There's cute knots and ugly knots Ugly knots I hide it inside the cute knots. I leave on the outside. Okay. Now when we are to this last section here It's really not enough to do one more stitch, but you could I suppose Do one more stitch Grab the bar I mean the loop and then grab the slanted bar here Then come up through the bottom near that same space and tie a knot and for this we're going to hide that end inside the doll So I'm going to poke the needle into his head near where that knot is at and then come out the back somewhere Pull it tight just a little bit and then clip and that'll hide the little Straight end inside his head his cloak. Let's put the horse together So the horse is Mainly put together the same way. There's a couple of small differences, but we are going to start right about here just like we did on the Rider Start in between because this is what I call the ugly knot So we want to hide the ugly knot back up from the bottom through both layers of felt Back up where we started here Pull tight, but pull top but not tight and go about a quarter of an inch away Do it again, but this time grab the loop and Then do that all the way around your horse Until we get to about Here and then I'm going to show you how we attach the tail and then the mane All right, I'll be right back Okay, when you get to about here It's time to figure out where the tail and mane are going to go before you go any further and you're going to need a couple of pins So I'm going to take the tail piece and I'm going to tuck it into the horse is a rump Right about where I want it, which is right about there You of course don't have to attach it this way You could make the horse's body and then you could attach this on the outside on the front afterwards I like to have it tucked in between And so I put it between the layers I'm going to pin it So in theory it doesn't move around too much one pin through the tail on the front and one pin through the tail on the back like that Then we're going to take the mane and we're going to figure out where we want that Just right about there To sort of hold it in place Then I'm going to blanket stitch up until I Have like one more stitch Till we hit the tail. Okay, then I'm going to Come up through the back Through the back piece of felt and the tail Up into the front hopefully in about the same space We're going to switch from blanket stitch to back stitch right about here Then I'm going to go back about I don't know an eighth of an inch or a quarter of an inch I'm going to make sure I'm in line With the stitches on the back Can pull this pin out so I can see better and you can see better I'm going to come up through the back about Equal distance away from that first little stitch make sure I'm hitting the back piece of felt and the tail And then go back over here where this first stitch started Do this do it again? Constantly checking the back to make sure you're catching all your fabric And that you're about even Sort of in a semi-street line on the front and the back He'll end up with a row of stitches like that We're going to do one more. Okay, then we're going to come up At the end of those back stitches through all the layers of felt and we're going to continue with our Blanket stitches So I just went around and I made a loop like we do at the beginning this time. I'm going to run the needle and Thread underneath the loop and then again So that we'll have a straight bar So we'll do this Grab the loop And it'll be straight like that. I don't always make sure I do that. Sometimes I don't do that Again, I do have an Etsy PDF download pattern for these basic shapes Which include the shapes for the horses for the four horsemen which weren't originally Included, but I decided to add them at the last minute So again, I'm going to start from the back. I'm going to make sure I'm grabbing the back felt the main oops the back felt The tip of the main coming through the front Hopefully grabbing it all the mains a little more tricky than some of the other pieces Because it's a smaller pattern piece and a smaller piece of fabric. So it's a little harder to make sure you grab everything And then kind of do this and make sure yeah, make sure you're grabbing at least a teeny tiny bit of the main And the tail when you're doing the tail, it's good to check But again, you don't have to stitch them on this way You can you can stitch them on after just to the edge or you can put them on the top This is how I've chosen to do them Myself, okay, I'm gonna get this finished and attached. I'm gonna Do just like I did with the tail at the end here. I'm gonna switch back to blanket stitch I'm gonna stop about here and then we'll stuff our horse and I'll be right back So now we have him stitched and you can kind of you know tug on your tail and your main make sure they're attached well We've got our opening so we can stuff him just like with the rider. I always stuff the extremities first So I'll start with his back leg. I make quite a few of these little Dolls and things right now in case you haven't noticed on social media. That's a joke people So I keep a little tin on the table of stuffing rather than than the entire giant bag I find that that Works better for me than having the giant bag of stuffing all over the place So if you're gonna make a few of these you might think about doing something like that I might just have enough thread on here to Sew his neck close, but I don't really think so. We'll try and there's our horse Now we're not quite done yet because we've got to decorate our rider and or the horse I'm not sure. I've only decorated one of the horses and that was for famine or pestilence and I really thought he needed to have some flies on him like his rider So I attached the flies and actually that one needs a little bit more glue So I attached some flies to him, which I really like the way that looks so I'm not sure I'm gonna do that to this one Do anything to this horse. I haven't to the other two, but first it's this cloak. So we've got this fabric Which we need to get off here. So we need to find an edge and cut a rectangle There we go This stuff is gonna be a pain to work with if you use something like this and you don't have to do this part And there's no pattern for this part. You're just gonna be eyeballing it So and literally I'm just gonna whack off a piece so I'm gonna Think do that Want to do that? So I'm going to cut I folded the rectangle in half I'm gonna cut up the middle This is cheap stuff. So if I mess it up, it doesn't matter like literally it doesn't matter Some of this needs to come off the idea Okay, so I'm gonna take some I Think we're gonna go ahead and use the black. I probably should use a dark gray. I'm gonna use the black But I'm just gonna use like two strands What is this two or three? This is three I'll just gonna I'm just gonna do that I'm going to just put a couple of stitches to hold the side of this closed So I'm gonna put my needle once I put it through the fabric. This is very open weave, right? So there's nothing for the knot to grab on to you So I'm gonna put my needle through a couple of the strands just Above the knot so that when I pull it's gonna hold tight like that probably that holds the Mesh fabric together right there and then I'm gonna take a little stitch in his just At the very edge of his arm I usually do it this way with stitches the only things I ever glue on are sometimes the eyeballs and The flies the flies there's no way to stitch the flies on you have to glue them down Now these props for the dolls I made out of plastic bones Plastic flies copper metal There's no pattern for those You can make them out of what you have now is again a good time of year to buy Like the plastic bones and things if you're gonna make something like this. I Usually keep stocks of them around Alright, so we have some more plastic flies see Got my e6000 this happens to be white e6000 I'm using it because I got it inexpensively at Actually the three I found it at the thrift store All right, so before we do our flies though, I'm gonna attach the labels so You want to this is again this June Taylor printer fabric and it's on a paper backing So I always scratch the backing with something sort of semi-sharp and Then peel it off. I don't have the edges of these labels. You could Sometimes I hand write the labels on just a piece of muslin Which is also fine. You can do that too We're gonna take a little bit of our Elmer's glue stick and I don't know why but I just like to tuck this top edge in just a little bit I don't have I don't bother to do this to the sides. I just do it to the top and bottom So I don't know what the deal is with it, but I did all the other ones this way So I might as well do death this way too. And so you have like that And one that will get attached to the back of the horse and One will get attached to the back of our rider now. I will have it tell you a tip I take sometimes I just take muslin fabric This is muslin bandage fabric But anyway, and I put some packing tape on the back because that enables me to very easily write on the fabric With a sharpie and then I'll cut out my little label and I'll sew that to the back of the doll So I do do that sometimes So there is our horse Here's our rider. I do think he needs some flies. I usually have a scrap of paper around here somewhere Let's use this in case the glue gets drippy these plastic flies I got from Amazon they're just miniature plastic house flies you if you used clear glue This would probably be a little easier for you rather than the white Glue my glue as I've said is white. So, you know, all right, let me clean up and I'll be right back Can you see all of those in camera? The four horsemen of the apocalypse. I love the way they turned out It was a project I was joking about at the beginning of 2020 when the pandemic and everything else started and the more stuff that happened this year The more that I thought I just felt like it was therapy for me I needed to make them along with miss corona virus and mr. TP shortage and all the rest of the zombie dolls I have been posting most of them on social media. So You can follow me over on Instagram and go back through my feed and see all the dolls I Have gotten offers and questions if they're for sale at this time. I don't think they are but if you would like your own set I would take Questions about doing commissions, especially if you want them customized. However, I'll tell you right now Although I don't have a definite dollar Point in mind they wouldn't be inexpensive. They do take a fair amount of work to make so If you're interested email me, we'll have a chat my emails in the description. Okay, that being said here you go Here's my collection. I hope you make some and you have fun with this whether you make the four horsemen or you make Just a generic zombie doll or maybe you make some day of the dead dolls I would love to see what you make tag me in your posts on social media because I'd love to see them Alright, that's it for now Don't forget to like share and subscribe Support your free content here on YouTube and over in the Facebook art groups how you can I And all your other favorite creatives have ways to do that whether it's an Etsy shop or a PayPal tip jar or Patreon or something it's usually listed in the description mine is There's a link tree list of links for me in the video description And when you click on it, you're going to find all the different places I am on the internet a lot of people have their links down there in the video description For support, but if you can't find what you're looking for Message them and ask they probably have one and for some reason it's just not down there All right, that being said stay safe. Stay healthy. Stay creative Don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. I'll see you later. Bye guys