Terrance and... Lewis

Meet Terrance and Lewis. Why anyone wanted to be immortalised as knitted versions of South Park characters I'm not sure, but hey, they turned out pretty cute.

not knitting

So it's not knitting, but I've had these chairs in the house for a year, and the fabric to cover them for about 8 months- finally got around to covering the first one.



Second one should be easier, the pieces are all cut out and ready to go once my hands have recovered.... *collapses*

Danger Cat

Meet Danger Cat. Wandering without fear in the Garden of Weird Creatures.

Just finished the most boring project- all garter stitch and very little in the way of interesting shapes, but I have had a lot of enjoyment thinking how much the recipient is going to love hiding it around the office. Harry Hill's Knitted Character (the original of which is actually crocheted)



Now I think I might have to knit something brain-strainingly complicated. With short rows, kitchener stitch, cables and knitted on 17 DPNs.

And since I haven't posted since January and it's nearly April, have some more project pics.

No 1 Crazy Aunt of a Bag of Crazy Aunts. This has been sent to my Mum to give her advice and support.



And No 2 Crazy Aunt.


A frog in a Man U shirt.


Bagpuss.


And De-Li from Waybuloo

Loved making this one!


Now off to decide what the next project is (in between endlessly knitting squares for a wedding present blanket/afghan)

Knitting notes for Frank Zappa!

Well I typed these up for a fellow Raveller (you know who you are) so thought I should post them here too.

Please note this is far from being a finished 'pattern' but if you can knit on DPNs and have made a toy before I think you should be able to make sense of it. First, here's Frank again:


and here are the notes.


For legs, cast on 4 sts in shoe colour.
inc 1 in every st (8sts)
K1 row
Repeat last 2 rows until 32 sts on needles, dividing between 3 DPNs at whatever stage is easiest for you.

P 1 row for ridge

Continue to knit rounds, decreasing 1 stitch at the same point every 2nd round until 20 sts remain. This forms the flare which end roughly at the knee. Continue to knit for 18 rows.

This completes leg one. Keep these sts on a spare needle and repeat for second leg.

Join both legs with the decreases facing ‘forward’. I really need to read up about how to join two things in the round to make one thing in the round- can’t offer much help there but I managed it first go!

You should now have 40 sts on the needles. K 8 rounds.
Next row K2tog, K9 to end (36 sts)
K 3 rows.
Repeat last 2 rows another 2 times (28 sts).

Change to t-shirt colour and K 2 rows

Worth stuffing the legs at this point, then continuing to stuff as you go.
next shape the ‘chest’ bit. Increase 1 at each side of body for next 4 rounds (36 sts)
K 10 rounds.

Shape shoulders- you need to place the decreases at the sides of the body again, so if your round starts at the centre back, K6, K3tog twice, K12, K3tog twice, K6 (28 sts)
and again- K4, K3tog twice, K8, K3tog twice, K4 (20 sts)

Switch to white and K2 tog all round (10 sts)
Purl 1 row for t-shirt collar
Switch to flesh tone and K 2 rows.

Shape head
next round Inc 1 in every st (20)
next round K1, inc 1 to end (30)
Next round K2, inc1 to end (40 sts)

K 15 rounds. Next 3 rounds finish off the head.
K2, K2tog to end
K1, K2tog to end
K2 tog to end
Break yarn, and using a darning needle run yarn through remaining sts on needle, pull tight and fasten off.

Arms- cast on 8 sts in flesh colour

inc 1 in every st (16 sts)
Divide across 3 DPNs and knit 32 rounds, stuffing as you go.
Switch to t-shirt sleeve colour and K 5 rows.
K2tog to end
fasten off as for head.

Attach arms to shoulders and your doll is done!

I made the hair by cutting short lengths of black yarn and using a crochet hook to attach individual strands.

Nose is a few vertical straight stitches followed by a couple of horizontal ones to make a lovely big nose.

Face was the first one i ever managed to embroider right first time. I will never be able to do it again :(

Frank Zappa

Meet Frank! This was my Xmas present to my other half, who loves Frank Zappa. I was trying to knit him at work at lunchtime so he wouldn't see it, but things got so busy that I only had his awesome flares done by Xmas Eve. So I had to knit a bit in front of him while he guessed (he totally knew it was for him) - he thought it might be a BeeGee from the flares.

Got up 6am Xmas Day to finish his face and hair. He's minimal and needs a guitar but hey...

SPIDERRRRRR!

OK, I lost my password and couldn't be bothered faffing about to get it back so I haven't been on here for ages. Prepare for several posts in quick succession...

Here is my spider, from Hansi Singh's Amigurumi Knits. I have been avoiding this book for months as the techniques scared me- but actually the instructions are pretty clear and easy to follow. The only problem was, as the spider came together it started to really creep me out and I had to keep putting it down and taking some deep breaths!