A tiger to greet the new year

Not that it's the tiger year, this year... but who cares? :)

I bought a wool-felting kit from Daiso some times back (ages ago, actually...was it in 2013 or 2012?) Anyway I just got around to trying it out. Luckily the kit contained instructions in English (not only in Japanese!) so I could read instead of just relying on the pictures.

Seems that I forgot to take a photo of the kit before starting. Oh well, too bad. Here are the head and ears...yet to be attached together.

The head actually looks a bit like Winne the Pooh's tail, doesn't it?

Added the ears to the head, and added the nose. (forgot to take a photo before adding the nose :P )

Added the whiskers, as instructed by the manual.

Added the stripes - I changed the pattern a bit because I didn't like the one on their tiger!

Stripes on the back of the head as well. All mine. The original tiger only had stripes at the top on his head. Why?? Guess my tiger earned more stripes. :P

Now my tiger has his eyes! (looks like a kindly grandpa with his whiskers, doesn't he?)

Actually the kit came with plastic knobs for eyes, but I found it tedious to insert them (I would have needed to get another tool to make holes, etc) so I just used wool to make the eyes.

And here's a side-by-side comparison between their tiger and mine. Mine's cuter, isn't it? :P

I didn't add the bead at the bottom, nor the ball chain, even though both were included in the kit. No, I want my tiger to be a soft furry ball! :P