For those who may not be as up to date with their CLAMP manga as me, this adorable little critter is a creature from xxxHOLiC called the kudakitsune, or pipe fox. As a little fun project after I'd gotten my Yuffie costume mostly done, I had a go at making one of my own.

He's over a metre long and only a few centimetres wide - as you can probably imagine, turning him inside out after I'd finished sewing him up took quite a while. But the best part of this thing is that, thanks to another length of the same wire we used on the Heartless plushie, he's entirely posable, and can be wrapped around arms and necks and such (which are, of course, the kudakitsune's natural habitat ^_~).

Since he didn't really go with my costume he wound up sitting on our table for most of the con, and with all the other clutter I don't think he got noticed much. Still, he seemed to go down well with the few other xxxHolic fans I ran into. I'm thinking of making a few more of him to sell at next years Wai-con since he really wasn't all that much work. We'll see how that goes.

Edit: The tutorial describing how I made this little guy is now finished. You can download it from here, thank you all for your patience.