Luckily the cast at the top of the list weren’t credited to multiple characters each so it was easier to pick out the most common ones. I looked up the cast list for Doc McStuffins on IMDB to find out who the most common characters where by looking at the number of shows credited to each actress or actor. I knew I was going to use the show to fill up a four-square diagonal but other than the titled character, Doc McStuffins, I wasn’t sure what other characters needed to be included. Though we haven’t started watching Doc McStuffins yet I know it was a show I’d love to include. The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything from VeggieTales Doc McStuffins LarryBoy and Bob the Tomato from VeggieTales. This meant The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything and LarryBoy needed to be included and then I rounded the set out with a group shot of the main cast. I decided to work with group shots so I could include more of them and went on to choose my favorite sets. I grew up watching these vegetables and just had to include them. The Man in the Yellow Hat from Curious George. At first I debated doing a one-square group shot or two-squares for both Curious George and the Man in the Yellow Hat but I ended up including Curious George twice and put them on a three-square diagonal. How could I not include such a cute little monkey. Like the Berenstein Bears above Curious George is also both a book series and a show. I hadn’t heard of the show before but as I was having difficulties filling up my other two-square diagonal I decided to pick the two coolest looking characters out of the online coloring pages I saw and use them. In my pursuit of finding coloring pages for Word Party, listed below, WordWorld kept popping up. The kids in the Berenstein Bears WordWorld After looking through the available coloring pages online I decided to split them into two squares: one for the parents and one for Brother and Sister Bear. Though the Berenstein Bears are a book series, I decided to include them as they are also a show. Since I had already filled up which shows would be on the longer diagonals this group shot was perfect and let me chose a single square diagonal to put it on. When looking for coloring pages for Storybots, I came across a free birthday printable on their website and found a group shot of the main characters with balloons. We watched the pilot episode and I thought it would be a perfect show for when the kids were older. When researching the potential television shows to add to my quilt I came across Storybots. Since I only needed one square for Peg + Cat I found a coloring page where the titled characters were close together and ignored the background details. Below are the chosen shows and characters in order of how long the diagonal was. When choosing my characters it was generally easier to find television shows that would fill the longer diagonals and then go on to the shorter diagonals. Once I was done coloring all the images I once again set the colors with my iron. After outlining all the images, I set the black ink with my iron so the black wouldn’t smudge and then colored the images using googled reference images to help with the color choices. If you want to see more about how I did this you can check out my Chuggington Onesie Costume post where I followed similar steps when I added Chuggington’s Koko to the butt of the baby onesie. I then removed them from the lightbox and attempted to copy the image as best as I could. If the image was too faint to show through properly I attempted to get all the details I could and when I wasn’t quite as sure I dotted the fabric rather than drawing lines as it would be easier to correct if I was wrong. I then traced the printable onto the fabric using a black fine tipped fabric marker. I sandwiched the coloring page printable between the lightbox and the fabric square and made sure the printable was directly centered to the fabric. Some shows were easier to find coloring page printables for, like Doc McStuffins, while some were more complicated based on what I wanted, like Doctor Who, and some, like Word Party, seemed impossible.Īfter cutting the white cotton squares and printing the coloring pages to the right size I ended up using a child’s light box I stole from my toddler to trace the images onto the fabric. This post will go into the individual character squares chosen and how I created them. This is a continuation of my previous Peek-a-Boo Television Characters Quilt post that came about when I found a Peek-a-Boo quilt pattern while looking through a library book “Scrap Quilts” by Judy Martin, I had immediately pictured a television watching quilt with favorite characters peeking out at you from the quilt windows.
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