Handy Dandy Handycrafty Thread

Thanks! The feet were made from twist ties - I found a bag of 'em for giftwrapping purposes with metallic tape. No idea how they ended up in my house, because I sure didn't buy 'em.

Re: Plastic beads: I could, but I'm such a stickler for details that most of what I find just won't cut it. The bulk of beads are rotationally symmetrical, and I'm not fond of the bead-holes/thread showing. It looks untidy imho.

I actually tweaked the Chikorita a little before taking photos yesterday, when I "finished" it it looked more like this:



You can see it's got a much more bug-eyed look, and the side profile isn't nearly as good. Seeing as I tend to leave notions 'til last, the felt surface is often quite compacted at that point and resistant to further prodding to make a good half-bead-sized recess.

Keeping all this symmetrical at this scale is also nightmarish, because even a slight deviation off-centre can make the whole face look lopsided, and if the base itself isn't kept symmetrical it's like good luck lmao. I must've spent forty minutes easy on Natu's eyes - its left in particular just wouldn't look good. Even now I'm like "ugh I wish I was ambidextrous so I wasn't constantly making two left feet/eyes/wings and subsequently tweaking one of them."