Downy The Fuzzy Orange Downs-Syndrome Sperm Whale

So... after Asky the fuzzy blue squidopus, my boyfriend asked for a fuzzy orange whale for his Christmas present.

I found the perfect pattern [here] and 2 yards of curly orange fur from eBay and sat and stared for a while until I felt like actually starting. (I was knitting my first scarf at the time so I was actually busy with something else.) Since I had so much of the orange fur, I decided to make the whale quite large. Downy's about the size of a regular bed pillow and 2 1/2 -3 inches thick. I added fins since maddiekins' pattern didn't have any.

OH MY GOD. There was orange fur every freaking where when I cut out the shapes (My dad was pissed).... and I was even stupid enough to not flip the pattern before I cut out the opposite body piece.... which meant that when I flipped it inside out, it would be wrong. :P So... luckily I had enough fabric left (more than enough) to cut out another piece.

Ok, enough talking. Here are the pics:


Here's the basic profile view. Yes, as you can see... he does look a bit mentally challenged.


Here's the front view of him. See? He's not very fat. :D


And here's his eyeball! It's 2 buttons. The bottom one is a standard button with 4 holes which was actually black and I spray painted it white. The top one is a flat black button with holes through the middle/sides and I painted it with blue metallic nail polish and white acrylic paint for the eye shiny and sealed it with acrylic sealer.

My bf and I discussed he looked mentally challenged due to the fact he had no mouth and the watery-puppy-dog eyeballs added to it.

Downy and Asky are now stars in a new stop motion animation film by my boyfriend which can be seen [here]!