My bookmarks are here! YAYAYAYAY! They arrived yesterday, and I'm still gleeing about it. :D Sorry about the weird background color. The colored paper I had handy was melon-colored, but it scanned pink. Hope the boys will forgive me. (Click to embiggen so you can read it! Even my mother thinks it sounds like a good book!)
Do you want a bookmark of your own? (And if you don't, WHY ON EARTH NOT? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU???) Go here! KD's still giving them away.
Now then, I believe I promised people a post about a squid hat. >_>
It's big.
Really big.
Almost as tall as I am.
It took me about 5 months to knit it, using this pattern. Except I think KD's squid is cooler, because I made him in rainbow colors. (His name is Skidoo.)
It started with this.
Well, actually it started with this. I cut the yarn into lengths and spliced it to form the rainbow ball(s).
Then there was the inner hat. I don't actually have any pictures of that, so here it is inside out. The circle is where the eye was attached, but I'll get to that in a bit.
Next, 8 arms. Although I think of them as tentacles. (Yes, there are only 7 in the picture. Hush. I obviously wasn't thinking about photographing every stage as I did it.)
Then the 2 tentacles proper. (You are ignoring the backgrounds of the messy house, right? >_> )
Skidoo is so friendly. Even before he was completed, he'd hold hands with me.
Now come the eyes.
And the other one.
Attached:
Next up, the body! It took FOREVER, but at the same time went much faster than the tentacles. I don't have any pictures of this stage completed either. But here are the fins.
And the finished hat! Yay! (No cats were eaten in the taking of this photo. Afterwards? >_> Well, I think Lilac's still around here somewhere.)
And here's a post from KD in which she talks about Skidoo a little.
1 comment:
Beccaie! I haven't seen you in ages, and I decided to see what was up on your blog. OH MY GOODNESS!! Skidoo is really cool, and you have such talent.
By the way, your cat looks like a love, too.
Hugs,
LadyDunadan
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