So I was finally able to wrangle my sewing machine from my mother's grip and bring it to my place and decided today to finally learn how to sew with it. I had recently modifed a dinosaur plushie to my own ends by making what I hoped would be a workable Sirenidae plush, little, little did I know what awaited me. As a life-time sewer with a needle and thread, machine free, I had yet to grasp the quint essentia concept that when making a plushie with a sewing machine one must A. make sure to have a sizable fabric margin (of error) between the border of the fabric and the drawn outline of the pattern. hand sewing this isnt as much of an issue, machine sewing it is... especially when the edge makes it hard to guide the fabric properly. The second hangup was my choice in fabric, namely cheap crush velvet which curls terribly without sableization .

tl;dr i made a ton of mistakes in round one, thankfully the color I chose to experiment with was hideous anyway.