Pooh was crocheted from the Pooh Collection leaflet. The instructions kept saying to stuff firmly. I think I may have overstuffed him. I could barely get his shirt on for one thing. He came out pretty good though.

You start this pattern by making the arms and legs separately and stuffing them. Then as you’re working around the body you attach the stuffed arms and legs. So then you’ve got a leg butting you in the stomach while you’re trying to work. Once you get up to the neck you have to stuff the body too. You should have seen me with a decapitated Winnie the Pooh sitting in my lap trying to crochet around him. It was both funny and awkward. I did the last rows of the head with Pooh sitting on a table in front of me.

As I was working on it I kept wondering who comes up with these things. Sc in next 10, two sc in next sc, sc in next 12, two sc in next sc, sc in next two sc, two sc in next sc, sc in next 18 sc, etc. There seemed to be no pattern to it but somehow a Pooh emerges that seems to bulge in all the right places.