WE were recently blessed with a set of patterns for balaclavas, many of them jester style, and Daisy was very taken with them and of course ...

And it's a tiger post! This time she got a lovely fluffy neck, what a throat ... The neck is made from four pieces of striped fur, and f...

cutting irises from acetate... cut the pupil hole first! polish your baubles (thats my glasses cloth) and grab some UHU glue ... delicate wo...

i like t o draw things so that i really get to know them ... a double layer of dense sheet foam provides the innards for a tiger's nose ...

tiger by numbers, Mary watches me at work ... this is the third time I have used this method to make a pattern for furring, but the tiger he...

it is sometimes only by making drawings that i really see something ...

I have made some marking on the head, covering it in old curtain fabric, so will be cutting fur in the next few days!

a sketch of tiger feelings - markings, teeth, colours ... old curtains again - pattern making as I go! drawing areas for add different furs ...

its takes 12 small pieces of fur to make 2 tiger ears ... here they are on the head, the fuzzy things are black pipe-cleaners that I am usin...

tiger with a toupee, that's not right ... I dig this little toy from Mary's animal tin, he looks a bit cheesey but he helped me with...

the foam dome is covered in fabric here this helps me in marking symmetry ... but it doesn't really look very tigery to me - more like a...

snip snip .... not used a green balaclava before, here I am using paper to make sure the head us symmetrical ... building the foam dome!

Off to Canada he goes .....

before muzzle rounding ... after muzzle rounding ... its done with a cylinder of rolled sheet foam as a brace, and some lacing of the lips...

symmetry in heads is important - i used the same pattern for both sides ... the pattern in turn helps me place the cheeks level on both side...

with an elastic strap to help attach it to the head ...

i have layered and bent three pieces of foam to try and create a bit of a smile for the rat head ...