"mom, please. robot, please. robot. robot. robot, please. please, robot mom."
The past few nites around here, bedtime has taken a foot dragging turn and even more recently, its been plaintive robot-tinged whines.Henry Kikiriki the Bear needed some emergency surgery after losing an ear and a leg (80/20 split between poor finishing to begin with and effects of overloving), and when I pulled out Jess' booklet for finishing tips, its been all about ROBOT around here since.
ROBOT, from jess hutchison's "unusual toys for you to knit and enjoy"
paton's classic merino in grey mix and black single, and knit picks wool of the andes in tomato red (?) doubled
US 6 dpns, 2
started: 2 june 2006
finished: 5 june 2006
It took me longer to finish it than to knit the pieces, even though this is my first completed (albeit tiny!) intarsia project. Also, once ROBOT's body was seamed and stuffed, it was promptly liberated and went on to thrash poorHenry Kikiriki the Bear while Geppetto growled, "robot! robot! robot!" and spirited away when I wanted to make ROBOT stop beating up the just-released-from-surgery bear.
Is it the testosterone?
Anyway.
As pointed out (numerous times) by my cohort, ROBOT looks a bit different than the pattern. I did knit a bright red icord antenna, but 1) forgot to seam it in when finishing and when I finally remembered, 2) couldn't find the darn thing. The arms are placed differently, since I knit one arm longer and just wanted to stop the ROBOT whines... you can't tell as much with the "x power" fist, at least that's what I think. I also neglected to notice that the head and legs/arms are different colors from the body in the pattern, so fewer colors. (Reminds me of an og Nintendo controller!)
I used US 6's (with worsted yarns) so the fabric would be tight-- I didn't like seeing Kikiriki's stuffing thru the knit fabric.
The pattern's great, while my finishing really leaves something to be desired. (The pattern's front & back are knit flat, and the arms seperately and seamed on afterwards). Its not *bad*, but with something like this, its the details that really make the toy great-- awesome face (I didn't have safety eyes, but ordered some... may keep the evil eyed face though), that "seamless" look when attaching body pieces. Oh well, its a toy and well loved already... toddler love is determined by the amount of blurriness in attempted photos.
i know you all know this already, but no i'm not comfortable with copying this pattern (or any patterns i own), and i'm not really interested in selling the booklet either. sorry to put this here, but with the last project, i had too many requests and don't really want to write the "no, sorry" letters this time. thanks for understanding, and sorry.
The past few nites around here, bedtime has taken a foot dragging turn and even more recently, its been plaintive robot-tinged whines.
ROBOT, from jess hutchison's "unusual toys for you to knit and enjoy"
paton's classic merino in grey mix and black single, and knit picks wool of the andes in tomato red (?) doubled
US 6 dpns, 2
started: 2 june 2006
finished: 5 june 2006
It took me longer to finish it than to knit the pieces, even though this is my first completed (albeit tiny!) intarsia project. Also, once ROBOT's body was seamed and stuffed, it was promptly liberated and went on to thrash poor
Is it the testosterone?
Anyway.
As pointed out (numerous times) by my cohort, ROBOT looks a bit different than the pattern. I did knit a bright red icord antenna, but 1) forgot to seam it in when finishing and when I finally remembered, 2) couldn't find the darn thing. The arms are placed differently, since I knit one arm longer and just wanted to stop the ROBOT whines... you can't tell as much with the "x power" fist, at least that's what I think. I also neglected to notice that the head and legs/arms are different colors from the body in the pattern, so fewer colors. (Reminds me of an og Nintendo controller!)
I used US 6's (with worsted yarns) so the fabric would be tight-- I didn't like seeing Kikiriki's stuffing thru the knit fabric.
The pattern's great, while my finishing really leaves something to be desired. (The pattern's front & back are knit flat, and the arms seperately and seamed on afterwards). Its not *bad*, but with something like this, its the details that really make the toy great-- awesome face (I didn't have safety eyes, but ordered some... may keep the evil eyed face though), that "seamless" look when attaching body pieces. Oh well, its a toy and well loved already... toddler love is determined by the amount of blurriness in attempted photos.
i know you all know this already, but no i'm not comfortable with copying this pattern (or any patterns i own), and i'm not really interested in selling the booklet either. sorry to put this here, but with the last project, i had too many requests and don't really want to write the "no, sorry" letters this time. thanks for understanding, and sorry.
