I addressed this in another thread but wanted to make a topic out of it. The golden rule of no floaters in patterns, has gone out the window for me lol. I am now making all eyes' light reflections as floaters. To me, it looks more realistic. That or a white dot of paint in that spot.
To do this as a cutting:
1- Get something to catch the tiny piece under where your saw dumps cut outs so that when you cut out that small area of light, you won't lose it.
2- Save the piece that you cut out AROUND that dot of light as well.
3- After you have glued your cutting to the backer, place that surrounding eye piece back into the area it was cut (don't glue it) and then drop in the little piece that is the light on the eye (but have a little glue on that one) then lightly press it down.
4- Carfeully take out that surrounding piece of wood. Ta daaa, light reflected on eye is placed correctly and, to me, looks more realistic.
You can do the same thing to anything else you think would look more realistic being a floater. Lord, I just turned pattern making upside down lol.
