Impressed, Jim quickly hired Sahlin as the Muppets’ chief designer and puppet builder, where his sense of expressive abstraction—as well as his ability to sew an almost invisible seam that came to be known as “the Henson Stitch”—would define the look of the Muppets for more than a decade. Indeed, it was Sahlin, Jim said, who “had more to do with the basic style that people think of as the Muppets than anybody else.”
