So after going to Jo-Ann's today and not being able to find any flesh-toned, cotton knit fabric, I settled for the peachy stuff in my kit. After stuffing, it wasn't as bad. Behold:
The sewn body parts, with the arms stuffed.
All of the parts stuffed.
The yarns I'll be using for hair.
But then I noticed that I still had half of the batting left. So I re-stuffed the feet, legs and body. And still had this much batting left. So I guess I'll also re-stuff the arms, but I'm not sure how much I'll have left. And I have no idea how much to stuff. And hopefully this weekend, I'll put it together.
A word about stuffing. Boy does it suck. I've been scrunching/gathering the limbs like you might to put a sock on, then putting some stuffing in that's been rolled in layers, so that it doesn't get lumpy, but how do you get the limbs to be evenly stuffed? And again, how stuffed should it be?
The next part is closing the skin fabric over the "neck", then sewing the arms' shoulders to the "neck", then fitting that inside the body and sewing that all together. Wish me luck!
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