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I thought I needed a slightly easier pattern to try, after Bertram Bigfoot<\/a>, and\u00a0Choly Knight<\/a>‘s Loch Ness Monster looked like it would be ideal. The body and head have two sides and a bottom gusset, while the four flippers are sewn into the gusset seam. This means the only hand sewing is to just ladder stitch the turning gap at the end.<\/p>\n

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I chose some black and white glow-in-the-dark fabric for the eyes, so I used the eyelash eye pattern pieces, and left out any inner eye features. I hand stitched them in place, as I was finding it challenging to machine sew the eyes onto the plush fabric without it sliding about everywhere.<\/p>\n

In the end, I using a small amount of fusible interfacing for the body dots, then machine stitched around them afterwards.<\/p>\n

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The neck dart was a challenge to get right – one side’s dart is a little longer than the other, but that just gives Nessie a uniquely quirky look.<\/p>\n

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Until I can get the fabric to glow properly, here’s a mockup of how the eyes will eventually look…. I hope!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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