Real Genuine Fumos 
appear to have fully embroidered eyes, which I know I wouldn’t have the patience for
the tutorial above had instructions to embroider just the outlines of the eyes, then cut out some felt pieces to size and hot glue them in. i did not feel good about that approach (not a fan of hot glue tbh)
i found this general face-sewing tutorial (with insipid music) not made by a complete nerd and thought it’s approach seemed more sound. it cuts out felt pieces for the eyes and sews them in place first, then embroiders the highlights and such:
in retrospect i should have probably followed the video’s example of using a marker and a glue stick (to keep the eyes in place), tho the pins seemed to have worked well enough so idk
anyhow, after i cut the eyes out i did a basic sanity check to see if it would look okay:
in progress shot. i was kind worried at this point:
but it turned out okay enough:
the sclera (or are they just highlights here?) are triangular instead of circular because i was having too much trouble poking through both layers of felt while embroidering for some reason, and decided to take some ~artistic license~ to make things easier for me
anyhow, if you look at the back here, you can see me improving in real time (CW: plush gore):
i wasn’t expecting to be done with this tonight, but i guess listening to Jeffgerst the Man do his NES Science can be that soothing
anyhow, i’ve been using livesplit to try to keep track of how much time i’ve spent on this so far. i figure with some more experience i’d probably be able to get to this same milestone much more quickly
