), and this is my first post. I hope I'm posting it in the right place, though, having lurked for a while, it seems that this is indeed the right section for posting about plushes (amongst other things) - and making plushes is what I do!One of my favourite game series of all time is the Lemmings series, so I designed and made a plush lemming.
The little guy's name is Darwin, so named in order to riff off of the myth about lemmings committing mass suicide and the whole "survival of the fittest" thing. The whites of his eyes still need to be glued down, but the fabric glue that I ordered hasn't arrived yet; However, I feel that he's finished enough to show off, so here he is.
Darwin is ten-and-a-half inches tall, and, unlike most lemmings, has a widow's peak (it's just something that ended up there when I was sketching him out as a character, and I liked it, so it stayed), which was a bit of a pain to recreate in plush form, partly due to the long-pile fur fabric that I used for his hair.
Also, he's an alert-looking little fella, so he doesn't have the dopey-eyed thing going on that so many of his species do.
Darwin was created to be a buddy to Lemming (who's half-an-inch shorter than Darwin, and whose parents weren't very creative with names
), a knitted lemming that my grandmother made for me when I was a kid (you'll notice, no doubt, that he looks very different to the standard type of lemming, which is the case because he was made based on a drawing I did of a perception of the in-game sprites from Lemmings, eschewing the look of the ever-familiar box-art - this resulted in a backstory for him, too). It just felt right to take a snapshot of the two of them together, now that I'm making lemmings myself all these years on. 
I'm definitely going to make more of these guys - I'll post them in this thread when I make them, so as not to clog up the forum.
I hope you all like Darwin, and thanks very much for taking the time to view my thread and my work.
