Greedo stands at 6" at the highest point. He's been made by a combination of wet felting, needle felting, sewing, beading, and of course: gluing.
The *real* Greedo's vest is orange, but that was too vulgar to my eye, so instead went with a lavender cashmere wool (so lovely to touch), that was embellished with stitching in a variegated embroidery floss. Now he's ready to go out for the evening -- hence fashion belt (velvet) with chain instead of a gun holster. I like to pretend that Han shot first, outside of the cantina, when Greedo was just out for a night of fun and TOTALLY unarmed. Heehee.
Each of Greedo's hair spikes consists of 3 pieces of embroidery floss, braided together, then coated with glue and gel medium to stiffen. Opted for no pants for this version of Greedo because there was just NO WAY I was covering up the extreme yumminess of what that variegated aqua/purple roving does in his body. At first I was "afraid" of the shiny light blue material of his shirt, as I'd never worked with it before, but overcame that because this guy really benefits from the shine and silkiness that contrasts with the rough texture of his woolly body.
Since Greedo is the son of another bounty hunter, Beedo, I thought it'd be funny (my version of funny) to use quite a few beads on him, to show his parentage. So eyes and face bumps are beads. Technique known as "couching" using variegated yarn and metallic floss surrounds his eyes.
Other puppets in this series: Admiral Ackbar Ewoks Yoda
The design of this puppet and its images are © Megan E. Jeffery. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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