From there, learning from yesterday's mistakes, I cut and stitched and stuffed and sewed and ended up with a pretty good stuffed squirrel! It's not perfect, but it's way closer to perfect than the sample one was. I'm now brave enough to think about tacking other animals...in fact I bought a pattern today on sale for dogs and cats.
This here is the only part I really didn't like how it turned out. It's not horrible, but not nearly as nice looking as I would have liked it to be. I've been told that the friend it's for thinks it's fine, but I'm still thinking I may do another (and by the way, I LOVE the flying squirrel shot above, ha!) Definitely a learning experience for me, but a fun one, and I'm thinking more of these stuffed creatures are in my future.
I hate to say it, but the best way to get a nice clean seam on that end, is to hand stitch it closed after stuffing. Which will be a pain in the butt. (pun intended)
ReplyDeleteI thought that too...but was hoping maybe the machine would work :) Even with that I still ended up doing very top and bottom by hand. so much for laziness ;)
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