Great job! Wish I could crochet that well. As for the stuffing - I read somewhere that if you line the object with old hosery, it helps keep the polyfill from sticking out. Haven’t tried it yet.
It was a pretty funny story…I was talking to a co-worker on the phone, (she had done some crochet before) and I was reading her the very first instruction…something along the lines of ch 2, sc 5 times into first ch…
I was like “huh” and she said to me…what are you working on…
I said…a bear!
She said to me, “people normally start with granny squares you know”
In the end, this wasn’t as hard as it looked…it was cute…and mostly all sc…I got to learn sc2tog, and ch X into one stitch…and got to practice my sc’s over and over again…smiles