Braydon's hand puppet is finished and my test-knitting notes have been emailed to the designer. It's a good pattern and was a fun, whimsical knitting project. What an awful picture, below. Trying to take a picture of a puppet which is on your hand is almost impossible, for me, at least. I laid the puppet down and took this picture, but you can't see its lower jaw. This one will do until I can take a better one in a few days.
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Since adding this picture I realize that I forgot the whiskers. I'll add them for the next, hopefully better, photo. |
THE DETAILS
Yarn: 1 ball of Plymouth Encore DK, color 1382 - yellow
1 ball of Sirdar Foxy, color 0430 - sable (now discontinued)
1 ball of Lion Brand Fun Fur, color: 124 - champagne
Length of black DK for embroidery
** See note, below.
Length of black DK for embroidery
** See note, below.
Notes: (1) ** Fun Fur and Foxy are pretty-much identical/interchangeable. Two shades were used for depth of color, but you could use two strands of one color, thus saving the cost of a second ball of novelty yarn. On Saturday, 3/5/11, Fun Fur was on sale at Joann's for $2.50/ball. This is the same yarn that's used for the beards of Alan Dart's gnomes, by the way. I picked up a pretty copper color in order to make an Irish leprechaun from the gnome pattern someday, if I ever get caught up!
(2) As Braydon is just over a year old I embroidered the eyes rather than sewing on buttons. The buttons would have been much easier since they already look alike. I did the eyes a couple of times in order to try to make them match as closely as possible. I would have preferred to make the eyes and nose dark brown, but couldn't find that color in my stash, so black it is!
(3) The pattern includes designs for a dog, dinosaur and a rabbit along with the lion.
(2) As Braydon is just over a year old I embroidered the eyes rather than sewing on buttons. The buttons would have been much easier since they already look alike. I did the eyes a couple of times in order to try to make them match as closely as possible. I would have preferred to make the eyes and nose dark brown, but couldn't find that color in my stash, so black it is!
(3) The pattern includes designs for a dog, dinosaur and a rabbit along with the lion.
1 comment:
Absolutely adorable! I hope the patterns are available soon.
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