First Plush: A Handsewn Mudkip

I had a recent and random urge to make a stuffed animal. I gave it to my mother, mangofeet, for mother's day. I tried to make a mudkip, but a lot of things went wrong here. I've never done this before, so I was really making it up as I went, roughly basing it on a pattern I found here. Keyword here is roughly.


I also tried my best to make a wide ball for the head, but found it challenging to work in three dimensions. So, after all, though recognizable as a mudkip... he developed his own character. A little sinister at first, but still colorful and happy.


One of my main issues is the how rough the hand-sewing makes the edges. I have the feeling that that's what makes him a little creepy. That and the eyes. I could use a machine, it would be faster, and I might once I get an actual pattern done (at which point I'll make a tutorial). But as it is, with how much taking apart, cutting, adjusting there was, it was nice to be able to easily undo my stitches. Also, I could watch movies and be generally more social while hand-sewing.










For reference and any of those unaware, this happy fellow is a mudkip.

Problem Solving

My roommate and I found ourselves in a predicament recently. That is, that I wanted to eat something from a can, and we had no can-opener. Here's the resultant outcome:



Of course, during the moment we felt rather proud of ourselves because it was working (for lesser values of working) another roommate heard all the noise and came in. She looked at us for a moment and told us she had a can-opener.