This week we have one of the projects I’ve been working on for a while, but waiting to list until it was done and posted. But…. that’s all. (Others are upcoming!)
Totals:
- Mending: 2
- Non-mend sewing: 3
- Elimination: 9
- Website updates: 4
- Crochet: 1
Category: crochet
Evolution of a hippo
You saw the first draft of the snouty hippo some 17 months ago (Hi, FYDP), and it saw a few versions in between. I thought I’d show you them.
Top to bottom, let me introduce the versions.
Draft 1 (red/orange/gray variegated): freehanded, intended to be a thumbnail hippo!
Draft 2 (purple variegated): snout adjusted, head shortened and body increases moved to chest instead of evenly spaced. Granted, this yarn’s a little thicker, but look how my stitching got larger over the months!
Draft 3 (orange): head shortened again, diameter of body decreased.
Draft 4 (red variegated): one more little head adjustment, time to make the body not a tin can, feet needed shrinking down.
Draft 5 (screaming yellow meemie): yet one more head adjustment, minor body adjustment, learning how to sew the legs on in appropriate locations. Very similar to the final version – I just made another edit to the body.
Here’s a better pair of photos to see the changing shapes.
Rumor has it there are amigurumi designers who sketch their creatures, stitch them up, make a second copy for in-progress photos, type the pattern and send it off for testing. I am not such a designer. Most of my patterns work like this one, with quite a bit of distance between the initial draft and the final version. Worth the effort? You tell me!
Snouty Hippo
It’s National Hippo Day! [1] To celebrate, I have a new hippo pattern in the store:
Snouty Hippo Pattern
I never thought that snouty hippos would be such nosy hippos! Look at this:
What are you eating? Can we have some?
Ooh ooh! We’re good at crosswords! Does that say “Hi-po”?
Who are you? [Dachshunds, nosy in a different way.]
Hey, is that us on the computer? Click there!
Can you reach? I’m trying, I’m trying!
Information about stitching and materials is in the shop.
[1] I learned long after planning this all out that this National Hippo Day originates with the game Second Life. National Hippo Appreciation Day, which has a Facebook page, is July 24. Perhaps we’ll speak about hippos again then.