There’s something not quite right about the top of his head. The pieces didn’t join together the way they should have. I faked it and it shows. Maybe I was supposed to blow that piece up larger than I did.

Having now done a few stuffed animals from the Adventures in Toymaking book, I’m taking a break from it. Working from patterns printed on copy paper isn’t as nice as real tissue patterns. I worry what they’re doing to my scissors and it’s rough cutting through all the layers that accumulate from having to join multiple pieces of paper together to get one big enough for the whole pattern. Not to mention the aggravation of blowing the pieces up in the first place. Inevitably once I’m home I discover that I didn’t enlarge the snout enough and have to make a second trip to the copy center.

Next up: curtains.