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Episode 16 and the season finale of this crochet series. Congratulations to everyone who guessed I was making Appa. And extra gold stars to those who guessed what I was making right on day one. I have never seen this many right guesses that fast. The only things I had left to do were the horns, the eyes, and sew everything up together. And I really thought this was only going to take me about four hours, but it still took me like ten. Since I want these horns to be able to stay in place, I decided to reuse the polyfill box again. I basically just folded them into cylinders and then used some duct tape so that they wouldn't move. I put one piece in vertically, the other piece in horizontally. I then got a 48 inch wooden dowel from Michaels that's going to go through the entire head and connect the two horns together. This is going to make sure they don't move. Now if you remember, to fill the head, I used body pillows but I didn't take them out of the cases. So it was a little tricky for me to get the dowel through the head because I couldn't puncture those cases. But it all worked out so the next thing that I did was sew everything up. And guys, being able to crochet is one thing but being able to sew seamlessly is a completely different ballgame. I will forever be proud of the way that I'm able to sew. I will say because of the sheer volume of things I had to get sewn on today, my shoulders were feeling it. But I just have to keep telling myself that the light at the end of the tunnel is not finishing this. It's a 90 minute Swedish massage. I then moved on to sewing on the face starting with the eye patch. And this was probably the most straightforward part of the face that I had to sew on because then when I moved on to sewing on the cheeks I had to make sure that these were not going on entirely flat because I needed to add filling onto them Then I turned into a part mechanic trying to sew the bottom of this on It was actually kind of fun. You don't usually see these things from this angle. After I sewed the second cheek on and added some filling, this is what it was looking like. I then moved on to the nose, but I wanted to make sure that I was sewing it on properly because I still wanted to accentuate those nostrils that I was able to add. And I think I did a damn good job. Then came the horns, but I'm actually gonna have to detach these and you'll see why in another video. We sewed the belly patch onto the underside of the body. Then I came back to do the eyes because stuff kept getting in my eyes when I was sewing on the belly patch. And since I forgot my safety eyes at home, I ended up crocheting these circles with black yarn. I then did a bunch of passes with white yarn to give it that eyelid look. And finally, after 16 long days, we are done. Seeing the finished product does not even feel like real life. Never forget when I was 12, I spent the entire summer break watching Avatar The Last Airbender. So when my client asked me if I've ever watched the show, immediately was like, please tell me you want me to make Appa. And in all honesty, it's not because I wanted to make Appa. It was solely because I've always had this dream, and I'm sure many other people have had this dream as well. I'm sitting on Appa and just saying, Appa, yip, yip! Unfortunately, I haven't trained him to fly yet, so that's the next step. Not only did I have the chance to document this entire thing and share it with millions of people, but this genuinely feels like a dream come true. Oh, and also, you want to see how this is getting out of here and where it's going? Come back tomorrow for more details because maybe you can meet him there.