Turtleshell

After the third felting today, I think the top shell is about the right size. I'm hoping so, anyway - it's about an inch bigger all round than the bottom shell... I'll check that with the pattern writer though as she's both helpful and sympathetic to the tribulations of felting in a front-loader...

There are also feet. You can sort of see them here, but we're back to darker nights, and the glory of their little bobbly toes is hidden. Knitting with aran-weight yarn on 3.25mm needles isn't as bad as I thought it might be and you certainly get a fabric dense enough that the white British-Standard-Conformant toy stuffing isn't going to show through (if this were for me, I'd use any old fleece I had around, but these are probably going to tiny relatives who will stuff them straight into their mouths...).

Also managed to find some small-size safety toy eyes, too - I'm never totally confident of my ability to embroider on faces even after all that City and Guilds stuff...