Day Twenty-One: glove squirrel - updated with pictures

This is going to be an unfinished post, partly because my craft is unfinished and also partly because I didn't download the pictures onto my computer yet. I was about to, then I accidentally knocked a bunch of stuff off my desk, and then was too grumpy to do anything except go to bed. I will write the post in part today, and then update it with pictures and stuff tomorrow.

I am making this: a recycled glove squirrel. Except that my glove is red, not brown, and it's not a glove who lost its partner. I am stealing a glove from its partner because I want to make this craft.

Materials:
- glove
- stuffing
- thread
- button
- the instructions say pipecleaners, but I have gotten that far and do not need them. So you can decide.

I used the guideline on that website to chop up my glove. A note: chopping up a glove makes a lot of little glove fluff bits to fly everywhere. Maybe wear some kind of oxygen mask and goggles to protect yourself from fluff bit inhalation. (Learn from my mistakes, people. The overarching theme of this blog.)

Then I hand sewed the edges together to create the legs/body, head, and arms. Of course, of COURSE mine are deformed, and look nothing like the ones in the example. Mostly just the legs, but still; I don't understand why that always happens. The hand sewing was difficult because the needle is still sticky from when I sewed that self-adhesive velcro onto my laptop bag, and also the needle was feeling extra stabby today. I got myself a couple of times pretty deep. (That is another reason why this project is unfinished today. I grew to detest the needle, so I needed to take a full-night's-sleep-length chill break.)

At this point I have the bits sewed, but not stuffed. That will be my next step! I'm sure I can handle that.

Day Twenty-One Highlights: squirrels.

Day Twenty-One Lowlights: sticky, stabby needles; knocking stuff over.

Tomorrow: pictures of today's work, and hopefully completion of glove squirrel!