In order for the sheep to stand, there must be supports in the legs. I always try to keep all the materials in stuffed animals wash and dryable, so the support system should ideally be somehow fabric and fiber based. Here I am using rolled up fleece (left over from a Halloween costume) that is tightly bound with yarn. Besides, I feel there is some poetry in the sheep's internal stuffing being fleece. Okay, bad poetry.
After the head got finished, I started adding on the floof. My methods for the body are almost always the same. I like to work on the dorsal side first, anterior to posterior. The only exception to this is anything with radial instead of lateral symmetry.
It has been a while since I used yarn like this white boucle. I forgot why I hate using it so much. There is just so much fluff that I can't see where my stitches are. This means that I will need to focus less on the number of the stitches and more on the general shapes that I am making. I suppose that this is for the best and will force me to be more sculptural. The good news about this yarn is it makes big stitches. So hopefully I will get done soon.
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