Adorable totoro plush: How To

I was bored and I wanted to make a plush, so I made a pattern for a Totoro plush.

This little guy is what came out of my random spurt of creativity. So if you wanna make him, here's the materials:
-A needle and thread
-Grey felt
-White felt
-Glue for cloth
-black paint for cloth, or acrylic paint
- green felt (optional)
- stuffing for plushies(or you can use the scraps of what you just made, which is what i did today)
-Scissors

SO, where do you start? 
Well I started by making a paper pattern, and using it to cut the felt. Here it is:

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Using this, I cut out all of the felt pieces I needed (pictured up there with the materials). The first thing I did was make the ears, to do this you have to take the glue, smear it on one side of the ear and then roll it up, letting it glue together. the little tabs on the pattern let you stitch
it and sew it into the body. Here are a few pics of what I mean:

Roll up

Put glue on

I glued them to the body to hold them while I sew

Once you are done with that you can start sewing. Now the stitch I'm using, well, I'm certain it has a name, but I do not know it, so Ill show you how to do it as best I can, and hopefully you'll understand.

Now you start with a basic stitch, but just as you are about to pull through, instead of going through completely, you slip you needle through it, as if to make a knot. You pull and go to the next one. So basically you keep going through it, making a knot with each stitch. It makes a pretty edge and allows  you to sew without having to turn anything inside out.

The tail; I wasnt worried about the stitch showing.

Once you are done with the body you stuff it and sew on the little bottom. Next you sew on the arms and the tail and finally the belly.
Use the glue to glue on the eyes  and leaf on the head and then use the black paint to make his nose and eyes.

And there! you're done :D
Now mind you written down this seems very simple. In reality it will take you a little while and lots of things change. For example the bottom of the pattern that I originally made got shortened because once the plush was full I noticed the size changed.   

See, he loves you~