Welcome to Puppet Stitches. First, I must say that I do not build for others. I do not sell replicas. I simply enjoy building for the sake of my own recreation and daughter’s enjoyment. Please do not ask to buy or have me make you a puppet.

What started out as wanting to build an Elmo for my daughter, suddenly turned into a workshop of building many characters. It is time consuming, but I found that I enjoy the challenge and like how I can express my own creativity throughout the journey. I recommend to anyone who wants to create a professional puppet to do some research and just give it a shot. I would not recommend starting by trying to build a replica of an existing character. Build your own character and use that knowledge to learn how you can create existing characters.

I put this site together to share how I make my builds and the puppet patterns I used. There is not a lot of information out there on how to build replica puppets, and I found it a struggle myself to find anything super useful on the internet. I want to help the community out and hopefully encourage others to try and build their own. I don’t have much advice besides just jumping into it, giving it a shot, and take your time! Enjoy and feel free to ask me anything about how I made my replicas.