Mario Goomba Shoe Stocking

Step 2 Make a paper pattern

The stocking is one large back piece with the face on it, and the front part of the stocking is the shoe. So you'll need to make a large piece that can encompass the whole picture, a pattern of the face to clue onto it, and then a separate shoe piece to glue onto the back part and make the opening for your stocking.

Here's how to make a pattern for your Goomba (or Kuribo's) Shoe:

• Draw out a large-ish picture of your image. The really important thing to achieving maximum awesomeness with this project is to keep scale in mind. I took some pictures from the interwebs and measured the proportion of head-to-stocking. He has a really big head compared to the size of the shoe. So if you want a big stocking, be prepared to clear an entire wall for the size of this baby. (or, _{shameless self promotion}, just check out the Expandable Stocking)
• Cut out the whole shape around the edges
• To save yourself the heartache later, make an additional copy of this main pattern. Then you'll have one to use for the back piece, and you can cut out the more detailed one to use for the smaller, colored pieces. There is not a picture of this step, because the idea only just occurred to me after I needed it.
• Cut apart the drawing with all of the detail. This will become the pieces for the colored bits. Since I used black as a background color, his mustache, sideburns, hat brim and eye were all cut away from the face bit, to simply expose the color of the background, rather than applying an additional layer.
• Trim the smaller pieces so that you'll be able to get some nice space in between them all when you glue the fabric on. This makes it look like the whole thing is outlined like it does in the game.