Jailcat

December 2007

Made for a close friend as what eventually became a Christmas present. This has turned out to be the most huggable plushy I have ever encountered. Again, I didn't have a pattern, but the goal was to make his head and body as round as possible, so his head is actually patterned after the curves on a baseball. For a long time, all I had done was the head, since I knew that because of the stripes, it would be hard to know that the body was turning out right; each time I'd only be adding a strip of the body rather than a large section. The body, the forelegs, and the tail were all essentially guesswork; I stopped when I decided they seemed long enough.