My Luna Lapin - Ready to begin

 So here we are all ready to begin , with all the pattern pieces cut out , with notches and triangles snipped and the eye positions marked .

I spent a long time finding some matching thread and having a practice on that little triangle of felt . 

 It is important to match it up because the head is hand stitched with ladder stitch , which can be seen . 

If you look at my little triangle practice piece , you can see along the bottom edge the stitching that I did with a darker shade of green and on the top left hand edge is the perfectly matched one . 

  I took time to practice that Ladder Stitch too ! It has to be as neat as neat can be !