If you have a pair of old brown socks with holes in them, instead of sticking them back on your feet make your own Hammerhead sock doll! Otherwise known to his Cantina pals as Momaw Nadon, this gentle Ithorian was sitting quietly in a darkened booth that fateful day that Luke Skywalker wandered in.
Materials to Use:
- Old brown or dark green sock
- Chenille stems (aka pipe cleaners)
- Googley eyes
- Old t-shirt the same color as the sock
- Needle and thread
- Brown yarn (for his belt)
- Beige fabric (for his robe)
- Napkins or pillow filler for stuffing
Instructions:1. Luckily socks already kind of have a built-in Ithorian hump. It's the heel of the sock! And because of their long necks, you can use almost the entire foot of the sock as the head. Use binder clips to guestimate where you want to place his eyes later.
2. Cut the ankle part of the sock in two parts for his legs. Start stuffing the sock with napkins or pillow filler. Fill it up like there's a fake foot in the sock. Then start sewing it up.
3. When you get to the bottom part of the sock that will be his feet, sew it closed but fold the bottoms down like flaps. Then cut two slices in each flap for his toes and sew around them using a simple stitch like you did with the rest of the sock. Or better yet, have a grown up do the complicated sewing part.
4. Now you need to make his arms and his long fingers. Cut two long rectangles from the shirt fabric about the length you want his arms from shoulder to finger tips. Then sew the individual rectangles as though you're making two tubes. At the end of each tube, cut (like you did his feet) three slivers to make fingers, but make them slightly wide enough so you can fill his fingers with pieces of chenille stems instead of stuffing. That way his fingers will bend and he can hold stuff like his staff.
Sew his arms to his body about where you think his shoulders will be. Also, scrunch up his neck a little so it bends like an S shape from the side. You can keep his neck in place by sewing the lower back of the lower part of his head to his body.
5. For his eyes, cut out four ovals from the t-shirt fabric and sew two together (making one for each eye) leaving enough room to stuff with napkins. Stuff with napkins so it looks like a lima bean and place the googley eye inside each one so it's barely visible. Sew around fabric to make more secure. That way he looks like he's squinting. Sew on either side of his head.
6. Make some clothes for Momaw by draping beige fabric around him like a toga, or
print out the a similar robe like Yoda wears from this felt doll craft. Use the brown yarn to make his belt! And make his staff by twisting two pieces of gold-colored chenille stems together.
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