Disaster with the sewing machine..........

So I'm in the process of trying to make some finger puppets for my nephew's first birthday to go with his Noah's ark play mat that I have made.

But it is turning into a disaster. Firstly I have managed to run out of the correct colour thread whilst winding the bobbin! Then I'm experimenting with the different stitches so thought that a satin stitch would be good around the features of the animals - but this has turned into a complete mess, the tension isn't right but it is for the rest of the fabrics that I am using so had to unpick the mess and restart with an applique stitch or a straight stitch.

Now I need to get some more threads as I have wasted so many trying to make the one puppet I have none left to make the rest. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!