here's most of a bear -- for those of you who are familiar with my couch and pillows, you can see by scale that he's rather a big bear -- being assembled and dressed now, as a raffle item for our adoption agency's lunar new year event and raffle in early february.
i'm at that dreaded and torturous "need distance/can't stop working on it" point in this project. once his limbs are attached i think i can back away a bit (working on his jacket counts as "backing away".) it's interesting to me that i can work so happily without a net and without a map on various heads and effigies without worry -- even going to bed seeing them looking like nothing in particular and not having a care in the world about it -- and yet, because this bear was worked from a pattern, and because there was a photo of what it was "supposed" to look like, my bear's weak-chinned visage had me fretting for hours, almost to the point of sneaking downstairs in the middle of the night to inspect him some more.
and that's just silly. he's adorable -- and i think when i begin to work on his attire (which isn't very related to the pattern from which the bear was made), i'll start seeing him more as "my" work and be a little less bothered by coloring outside the lines, as it were.
even just writing about it has let off some of the steam. i think i'm going to go put him in the spinning room for a day or two and get a little break from him.