Those Flying Squirrels

Well, I had to redo the pattern from memory. Cut out and made one - turned into a giant squirrel!  Wow, time to downsize!  I redid it and came up with something a lot closer to what I wanted. 

 

It's basically two squares about 4" per side, one square in a dark gray and one layer in white, with a sort of rounded end on the head side of the square.  You layer the white on the gray, start sewing up one side (leave the bottom open) and do a sort of W at the top.  The middle of the W is the head, which can be adjusted wider if need be. 

 

Clip the deeper lines at the top. Turn the item right side out, lay it down flat and sew a shallow half circle on each side (this will be the skin sailing wings on the flying squirrel, that area will lay flat when you add stuffing). 

 

Stuff the head and front 'paw' section.  Add catnip. Finish stuffing.  Cut a fake fur tail 4" long and about 3/4ths of an inch wide. I used a really plush grey fox fur that I found at Hancock Fabrics.  The tail 'made' the item!

 

Machine sew the final closing of the bottom, doing it very close to the fabric ends and centering the tail.  Polar fleece doesn't unravel, which is pretty neat. I carefully scissored the edges tighter, used a large needle to pull the stuffing into the lower 'paw' sections from the outside, then cut two black felt ears and added small eyes - about 6mm black beads.  The 8mm beads took up too much of the head area and looked the wrong size but the smaller ones were ok. 

 

They ended up really cute!  Very simple to do too. I easily did 19 of them in one hour.