Miles Vorkosigan penguin

[bunsen_h]

A friend of mine, one of the people who nudged me towards reading Lois McMaster Bujold's books, has been unwell lately.  She's also a penguin enthusiast.  So when I went to visit her last week, I brought her a little gift to try to cheer her up: a Miles Vorkosigan plush penguin.  (Considering how Miles feels about cold, there's some irony there, I suppose.)

This was the project for which I needed the etched buttons.

As I did with my pictures of the Barrayaran Emperor penguins, I modified the colours in the photos so the vegetation would be red-brown.

Comments

[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

A penguin enthusiast of your acquaintance is under the weather? Is she anyone I know?

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

I don't think you'd have met her, unless you've been going to filk cons in the U.S. or SF cons in the Baltimore/Washington/New York region.

[metalana.livejournal.com]

Have you thought of marketing "custom stuffed animals" on the web, eg. on Etsy?

[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

OK...thought it might have been someone a little bit more local.

[kattale.livejournal.com]

Okay. That is brilliant. Cute, but brilliant.
I should have been tipped off by the etched buttons, after the bug incident...

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

It's been suggested to me, but I haven't looked into it. I think I'd need to improve both my technique and my equipment -- at the moment I've only got a basic hobbyist's sewing machine, and it's not intended for heavy-duty work and has limited features. I'd probably need to get a serger; some of the seams in that penguin's jacket were "finished" with glue.

Given my relatively limited expenses, I could probably make a living by doing so, but I'm a bit reluctant to turn a fun hobby (which I can do whenever I feel like it) into an income source (which would imply commitments).

[ambiviolent.livejournal.com]

Yay Miles penguin! I should have suspected something Vorkosigan-related was up.