Parade of Finished Objects, day 1
I have been on a tear in the past few months. I have been Finishing Things. (I decided that phrase needed to be capitalized. Somehow in a very Charles Dickens kind of way it sounds more important, more momentous if it is capitalized.)
Don't worry, I have also started a few new things along the way, but sometime before Christmas I got tired of all the project bags piling up and of never being able to find the needle points or cables that I need because they are in some other project.
Plus there's something very gratifying about finishing a project that has been lingering, and these days I'll take satisfaction like that wherever I can find it.
So, I present to you the lead in our little parade of Finished Objects:
The Octopus!
I started this project a while ago, I'm not sure exactly when.
I took the following photo in January of 2007 on a day that I tried to photograph all of my works in progress.
I'm pretty sure I had started this only just before taking the picture - I plowed through knitting the parts pretty quickly, then stalled out when it came to assembling. This was started as a gift for one of my nephews, I think it was going to be a birthday present that year. I have several books of knitted toys, this was from Kath Dalmeney's World of Knitted Toys. Like I said, I got all the parts knitted up quickly, out of some coned yarn that I had that I help doubled. I even got the felt and the stuffing, and then I got nowhere for quite a while. I would pick it up and sew one leg, and then put it down again (and when you've got eight legs to sew, that takes a while!) One of the regulars at the Library knitting group started asking me about it a few months ago and I finally decided that enough was enough. Plus, if I finished it before Christmas it could be a present for my niece, since my nephews were a little too old by now. So I bucked up and just kept going and I finished it in early December. I mailed it off and according to all accounts my niece loves it, and my nephew reports that it makes an excellent hat!
Don't worry, I have also started a few new things along the way, but sometime before Christmas I got tired of all the project bags piling up and of never being able to find the needle points or cables that I need because they are in some other project.
Plus there's something very gratifying about finishing a project that has been lingering, and these days I'll take satisfaction like that wherever I can find it.
So, I present to you the lead in our little parade of Finished Objects:
The Octopus!
I started this project a while ago, I'm not sure exactly when.
I took the following photo in January of 2007 on a day that I tried to photograph all of my works in progress.
I'm pretty sure I had started this only just before taking the picture - I plowed through knitting the parts pretty quickly, then stalled out when it came to assembling. This was started as a gift for one of my nephews, I think it was going to be a birthday present that year. I have several books of knitted toys, this was from Kath Dalmeney's World of Knitted Toys. Like I said, I got all the parts knitted up quickly, out of some coned yarn that I had that I help doubled. I even got the felt and the stuffing, and then I got nowhere for quite a while. I would pick it up and sew one leg, and then put it down again (and when you've got eight legs to sew, that takes a while!) One of the regulars at the Library knitting group started asking me about it a few months ago and I finally decided that enough was enough. Plus, if I finished it before Christmas it could be a present for my niece, since my nephews were a little too old by now. So I bucked up and just kept going and I finished it in early December. I mailed it off and according to all accounts my niece loves it, and my nephew reports that it makes an excellent hat!
posted by Marie at 7:18 AM
3 Comments:
I _L.O.V.E_ the octopus!! The eyes are great! Really brings smile to your face. Very lucky nephew.
Cute, Cute, Cute! I don't know if those capital letters will count as "Dickensian", but the octopus sure is adorable!
I think sewing up is always the hardest part of knitted toys. Your octopus looks great. I love that book & have made several things from it (gorilla, penguin chick, koala, kangaroo mama & baby) and they've all turned out well. I wonder if you could make the octopus as a puppet?
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