I bought the blue corduroy because I needed a fourth color, and the brown because the twill I had turned out to be too dark, but all the other fabrics came out of my scrap box. Oh, except the printed felt. I used sparkly felt for the teeth, and attached both the teeth and the spines with a blanket stitch. I tried to match the decorative stitch around the belly with the critter, with varying degrees of success. The gold buttons on the black monster came out of my button jar, the others from the W store. After reading my sister's blog entry, I basically threw out the assembly instructions and put the little Kojis together in the way that seemed most reasonable to me. It made turning the empty skins difficult, but far less difficult than the amount of hand sewing required in the original.
I hope the kids like them!
