Happy belated New Year/Perihelion! That is kind of the theme of this post: tardy things.
Those of you who know me well and read my gift post might have been wondering to yourselves "Wait... doesn't she have two brothers? What about P1*?" Well, I was on track to making his gifts on time when I got derailed by two things: a bright idea and the fact that he was staying in BC for Christmas.
P1 likes a certain dinosaur, so I thought that for his gifts I would incorporate said creature. Or two. This meant that my previous gift plans gotscuttled modified, and when I learned a few days before Christmas that he wasn't even going to be here, I'm afraid I put his stuff aside to be finished later so I could concentrate on the rest of the insanity.
The first thing I started was this stegosaurus amigurumi. A couple of notes on the pattern: as someone mentioned in the comments, the stitch count on row 11 is off. I did a (3 sc + 2 sc in 1 st) repeat. Also, I will put two rows of plates (not spikes... sheesh, you'd think this person didn't know anything about dinosaurs*) along the back. It's a really quick pattern, and the only reason it's taken me more than a day or two to make it is that I didn't have anything to stuff it. The acquiring of which involved getting out of my pyjamas and going out into the cold. And finding a place to sell me a small amount of stuffing that wasn't Walmart. Which I could not do. It's also taking me a long time to finish making the legs, plates, and spikes, because it's time to get ready for school again, plus I've started another project. So here she is in all her unfinished glory, and I promise to finish her soon.
And now what the heck am I going to do with the rest of the stuffing?
The hat is finished (yay!) and inspired by the T-rex hat from Interweave Crochet Accessories 2011. The steg is crocheted in intarsia, which means you have to have a chart. I used this sweater image to create said chart. I'm afraid the steg came out more dragon-like than I would have like, so I tried going around it with a line of crochet embroidery. It looks better now.
This is what intarsia looks like before you weave in the millions of ends:
While I was waiting for stuffing, I got distracted by crocheting a sweater for me out of the leftover yarn from P1's projects. It's theJenny Sylvia sweater from Interweave Crochet Fall 2012. I won't have quite enough to make the whole thing in burgundy, so I'll do the bands and ribbing in grey. Probably.
I spent a few days solidly crocheting the back and fronts and got this far.
Then I reread the pattern and realized that the neck starts much earlier than I thought, so I will have to pull back the right front to just after the armhole starts. And the back a few rows. This is actually a good thing, because that means there will be more yarn to do things like sew up the seams. Except that upon further examination, I realized that I've completely messed up the stitch count at the top back because I've buggered up the armhole on one side. Likewise for the right front. Oh well, at least the left front will be mostly correct on the first try.
Ahem. Intentional mistakes are my signature!
Maybe I should go back to crocheting stegosaurus legs now.
*Not his real name. But you probably knew that.
**This from the person who probably knows even less about dinosaurs.
Those of you who know me well and read my gift post might have been wondering to yourselves "Wait... doesn't she have two brothers? What about P1*?" Well, I was on track to making his gifts on time when I got derailed by two things: a bright idea and the fact that he was staying in BC for Christmas.
P1 likes a certain dinosaur, so I thought that for his gifts I would incorporate said creature. Or two. This meant that my previous gift plans got
The first thing I started was this stegosaurus amigurumi. A couple of notes on the pattern: as someone mentioned in the comments, the stitch count on row 11 is off. I did a (3 sc + 2 sc in 1 st) repeat. Also, I will put two rows of plates (not spikes... sheesh, you'd think this person didn't know anything about dinosaurs*) along the back. It's a really quick pattern, and the only reason it's taken me more than a day or two to make it is that I didn't have anything to stuff it. The acquiring of which involved getting out of my pyjamas and going out into the cold. And finding a place to sell me a small amount of stuffing that wasn't Walmart. Which I could not do. It's also taking me a long time to finish making the legs, plates, and spikes, because it's time to get ready for school again, plus I've started another project. So here she is in all her unfinished glory, and I promise to finish her soon.
And now what the heck am I going to do with the rest of the stuffing?
The hat is finished (yay!) and inspired by the T-rex hat from Interweave Crochet Accessories 2011. The steg is crocheted in intarsia, which means you have to have a chart. I used this sweater image to create said chart. I'm afraid the steg came out more dragon-like than I would have like, so I tried going around it with a line of crochet embroidery. It looks better now.
This is what intarsia looks like before you weave in the millions of ends:
While I was waiting for stuffing, I got distracted by crocheting a sweater for me out of the leftover yarn from P1's projects. It's the
I spent a few days solidly crocheting the back and fronts and got this far.
Then I reread the pattern and realized that the neck starts much earlier than I thought, so I will have to pull back the right front to just after the armhole starts. And the back a few rows. This is actually a good thing, because that means there will be more yarn to do things like sew up the seams. Except that upon further examination, I realized that I've completely messed up the stitch count at the top back because I've buggered up the armhole on one side. Likewise for the right front. Oh well, at least the left front will be mostly correct on the first try.
Ahem. Intentional mistakes are my signature!
Maybe I should go back to crocheting stegosaurus legs now.
*Not his real name. But you probably knew that.
**This from the person who probably knows even less about dinosaurs.
A huge time saver, which is especially easy in crochet, is to weave as you go. I can show you next time we're in the same city together. Nice work! I especially like the hat!
ReplyDeleteI really should weave as I go, but I'm so lazy. And I did wind up using a lot of those ends to outline the steg. But I will definitely take you up on your offer, since I don't really have any idea what I'm doing when I weave.
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