Another plush lemming has been completed!
His name is simply Mr. Lemming, after the eponymous (or possibly just hypothetical) Mr. Lemming mentioned in some of the level titles in the original game, and he's a bit different from the norm, because he's a miniature plush. He's so named partly because his hair was a bit of a pain to work with, and I found myself thinking of the level title "Keep your hair on Mr. Lemming", at one point. Well, that, and because I simply couldn't think of anything else, and I then figured that Mr. Lemming would fit.
He was made during some free moments in between working on a gift for a friend, one half of which is a completely custom-designed one-off plush, which is mostly too complex to machine-sew, so I already had my needles and threads sitting around on my desk (the other half of said gift is another full-sized lemming, who'll be next in line to be shown here once he's finished).
Here's a shot of Mr. Lemming with Arthur, just to show the size difference. Mr. Lemming is made from the very same pattern as the others, simply shrunken down, and with just a few minor alterations made so that it can work at this size (the most/only noticeable one of these changes is the lack of thumbs, because they're tricky enough to deal with at full-size, and would have been impossible to turn at half-size). I wanted a pocket-sized lemming to take on my travels and sneak into as many photographs as possible, so perhaps we could say that this guy has a new lemming skill - Photobomber!
Mr. Lemming stands at four-and-a-half inches tall. I must admit that, as far as huggability goes, I prefer the full-sized ones (who stand at nine to ten inches tall), because I designed them at the size that I always pictured the lemmings to be - that is, bigger than real-life lemmings so as to have the cute-and-cuddly factor that's evident from the games and promotional artwork, but not bigger than other, larger real-life muroid rodents.
That said, as far as the required trait of being pocket-sized goes, Mr. Lemming can't be beaten (and because he's smaller and lighter than the others, it's much easier to get him to stand unaided).
Last of all, here's an image of him next to a familiar everyday object - a CD case, which just so happens to be the one for the single, Lemmings by SFX - in order to give a better idea of his size. This might also give some idea of how tiny his pupils are; They're made of felt because I don't have safety-eyes that small, are just 5mm across, and were cut as perfectly-round as a human hand can possibly manage, before being carefully glued into place with my favourite brand of fabric-glue. This was hellish, and I never want to make a mini-sized plush again if I can help it.
More to come, as usual!
