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At this stage it is a help to cut the patterns in tissue paper and pin
them together before committing yourself to a design which may
well be wrong in proportions. By doing this, you will immediately
realise that the feet have no soles. This, of course, is wrong because
you must bear in mind that the stuffing has to be closed in, in
order not to fall out.
Cut out two soles for the feet, each rectangular in shape, one side
equal to the width of the leg and the other side—the width of the
gusset. Your set of basic patterns for a profile horse is now finished
and it consists of two body pieces, two gussets—one under body and
one outer body gusset—and two soles. The ear pattern is worked
out during finishing.