The three dogs look adorable together @danmaruschak !

I noticed how you've moved the ears so they're a bit more apart now.

It's interesting how using three different methods of attaching the legs (sewing, Pick-up and Ringo) still arrive at a similar result.

My main experience is in knitting in the parts of the gnome : nose, beard, hat and body to avoid all that sewing but I did all that on a horizontal plain. It's a different case when it comes to the chihuahua legs because they need to point down afterwards so having a reference for their placement is essential - and the pen shows how small all the project is.

I guess I'd make the legs first and then pick up part of the leg on one row and then the rest one or two rows further on - I'm not sure how well that would work though. I look forward to reading about your crocheting experiments.