Current Pikachu progress: assembled his head and ears last night!.. and then had to undo days of embroidery work around his eyes and cheeks because his face was far too high up his head. Insert noises of inarticulate rage.
Although now, his face is roughly in the correct spot; I just have to re-embroider it, as well as fix Shirochu's face (didn't embroider anything on hers yet, thankfully). Still would be nice if I could consistently make forward progress on these sewing projects.