batiferrite | plushies: my little angy lion boy!

Oh, I'm seriously so happy with how he came out!!

Production Notes:

I've been watching a bunch of tutorials to learn different techniques and approaches. Like, here, the body is made is the same way as this video by Sugar Maple Crafts. I didn't quite make the front legs long enough / sew them down far enough, but he still sits nicely, so I guess it's fine. (...if it really bothers me, I might making some little paws and sew them on.) Still, it really is so much easier to make the body like this, with the torso and limbs in one piece, compared to sewing them together separately! That was, like, 90% of the anxiety I had with previous plushes, trying to get everything positioned and aligned properly, and taking it all apart when things were off.
For the black parts: the sock elastic really came in handy for making his pants! Just put it around and sewed up the inseam. The main mass of black on his head was done in a similar-ish way, taking a blue ball and wrapping it with black fabric, then cutting out the shape of his little masky-thing. The tufts of fur immediately under his ears were little cones that I needlefelted, then sewed onto the blue fabric before putting the black over it, and I think that worked well enough, but then I realized I could use the foam interfacing to make more distinctive shapes. (Also, it's really hard to try to make marks on black fabric! I started by trying to pin a stencil to the fabric, but it kept moving around. A white soft pastel works decently, but isn't very exact.)
I was worrying so much about how to make the tail and kept putting it off because of that, but I think the solution I came up with works well! The black part of the tail is a pipe cleaner, doubled up and twisted together for a bit of extra thickness / strength, and attached it like this:

With how stretchy the fabric is, it's a little annoying trying to embroider fine details like the face. I finally just gave up and needlefelted the dark lines above his eyes because my thread didn't want to cooperate....

To be honest, I am kinda worried about how secure some of these things are. Again, I'm just not really familiar with children and how rough they / what they want from a toy, exactly. Hopefully, it'll work out...

Anyway! Still undecided on what else to make, but I'm kinda leaning towards Natu or Spinarak, maybe? I'm still trying to go for a variety of body silhouettes and main colors, while still looking nice together (also, I just think they're very cute, in general!).