Day Twenty-Two: glove squirrel

For some reason the needle I found in my sewing box was larger and less sticky than the one I put back in my sewing box last night. It still stabbed me a bunch of times, though.

I began by stuffing the pieces (minus the ears) with stuffing. This made them look better, I'm pleased to say, a little more uniform. I didn't notice until the end product that I stuffed one arm more fully than the other, so my squirrel kind of looks like that dude from that KFC commercial who has one GIANT arm and one puny arm. I mention this now instead of at the end so that you will know to be careful with how much you stuff.

Then I sewed the arms and tail shut and attached them on. When I got to the part about the head in the original instructions, they gave me a fancy way of sewing it shut so that it looked nice, and I think they should have mentioned that at the beginning. Why wouldn't you want the arms and tail to look as nice as the head? I don't know. Anyway, I will tell you the trick: fold the left side in, the right side in, the top side on top of those sides, and then finally the last side and sew it shut! It keeps all the fraying edges neat and tucked away.

But I got a bit ahead of myself. Before I did the head, I closed up the arms and tail and then attached them to the body in a haphazard manner. I'm still not sure how people can sew on extra pieces without the seams showing like Frankenstein. Tips?

Then I did the head, closing it up with the fancy instructions like they told me to. The ears were the easiest thing about this whole project. All you do is fold them in half and sew the bottom together, and that makes it look like a real squirrel ear, and then attach that to the head.

Then I sewed the head to the body, but I think I did it a little bit incorrectly because he doesn't have a neck and he looks a bit snobby.

The instructions called for a wood button, but I found a nice non-wood button in my sewing box, so I attached that. Then I was supposed to use embroidery thread for the eyes, I think because it's thicker, but I didn't have any so I just used regular black thread.

My mom thinks he's cute.

Day Twenty-Two Highlights: completing yet another project, his face, finding mysteriously improved needles.

Day Twenty-Two Lowlights: never being as good as the example, getting stabbed by a needle, snobby squirrels.

Tomorrow: I have no aspirations for tomorrow. We'll see what happens.