5 posts tagged “theknittycat”
Sackboy, the character from the PS3 videogame, LittleBigPlanet, has become so popular that I thought he'd make a nice gift for our nephew, Matt, who is a collector.
I finished my version of Sackboy for Matt recently (knit without a pattern, as usual), and presented him for his birthday.
Voila! Sackboy Peep:
I just barely finished in time!! Boy was it a pain to put that working zipper in! And I hate sewing things! ;o) I'm even MORE impressed with all of the amazing Sackboy's that folks have been creating after making one myself!
My Hub and I both liked him better before I added the decorative grey stitching, but for Matt, I wanted to be as accurate as I could, since he's a collector. I did leave off the two vertical lines at the back of his head. Just didn't like 'em. But I told Matt that I'd put them in if he'd like them - and guess what... he told me last night that he WOULD! Yep... a collector! heh heh So Sackboy Peep will be coming back for some cosmetic surgery! ;o)
My Hub is totally crazy about him, and REALLY wants me to make another one for him! Well.... actually, he said to make another one for Matt and he'll just keep this one!! ha ha ha! He wouldn't do that, of course, but he just fell in love with him.Sackboy Peep with photo reference:
He has a working zipper, and I made a felt inner body so he could be opened. (ugh! That was a pain! And my Hub wants me to do this AGAIN!!!) When you open his zipper, you can see his little golden heart (a stone bead that's gold with a brownish edging). :o)
Sackboy Peep with Golden Heart:
I've seen so many Sackboys that other folks have made (including the Alan Dart pattern) wearing a pom pom hat and scarf, that I figured that they must be something that Sackboy wears, so I made him a set. We recently got the game (incredibly adorable and FUN!), but I haven't seen the hat and scarf yet. So I dunno. But here's
Sackboy Peep with hat and scarf:
And since Sackboy loves to play dress-up and take on different characters, and because Matt has been very into The Green Lantern lately (new movie coming out, too!), and because GL is one of my all time favorite comic book characters... I made...
Taaa DAAAA!!!
Green Lantern Sackboy Peep!
I like him best without the mask. :o)
I finished his little vest (with very poorly made emblem) just in the nick of time, and my Hub and I are so pleased with it. It's made like a little bib! heh heh I'm really happy I managed to squeeze in making it before Matt's birthday.And here he is saying his official oath while charging his ring (hee hee) ....
The beautiful green yarn is Bamboo Soft Spell and Bamboo Charmed from www.yarncloud.com! It's a chainette yarn, and sooo nice to work with! Nice sheen, gorgeous colors, and has all those nice bamboo properties! :o)
Here's a better look at his power ring:
I would have liked to have done a better job on the ring, but just didn't have enough TIME left!!
Close-ups of the Green Lantern's Power Battery...
which I'm absolutely nuts about! If we were meanies, my Hub would keep the peep and I'd keep the Lantern Battery!! ;o) I put 4 golden dollar coins in the bottom to weight it (they were just the right size - and makes the battery even more valuable and powerful - heh heh) and a chenille stem in the handle to give it strength and body.
It was fun taking a trip down comic book memory lane! :o)
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First there were Pocket Lambie Peeps, and now we have Pocket Pup Peeps! :o)
I made little Frankie for our niece after watching her adorable wee poodle mix romping about, recently. He's sooo cute! Had to make an ami of him! And having been making Pocket Lambie Peeps lately, I realized that the lambie yarn would be perfect for him. With just a bit of changing, the lambie could become a Pup!! Tried out one of those cute little glass animal noses (from www.glasseyesonline.com ), and it's just perfect for a dog, with their shiny wet noses! :o) My Hub and I are just LOVING him! AND he looks even so much cuter in person! So another one that will be very hard to part with. *sigh*
and this is Daisy Pocket Pup Peep
We were so crazy about little Frankie peep that I had to make Daisy Peep for us, or our niece was never going to get Frankie! ;o) I was soooo sad at the thought of sending him away, till Daisy came to stay. Daisy is in homage to the memory of my sweet little Bichon Frise.
More about Frankie ... he has this adorable bit of apricot on his back! Isn't that CUTE?!
Here's Frankie in his little bed/pocket, which is now Daisy's because I made a slightly bigger one for Frankie...
And more of wee Daisy
here's Wee Daisy with Wee Frankie (they're in loooove... *sings... Frankiee and Daisy were looveeerrrsss....* hee hee)
See him whispering sweet nothings to her before kissing her? ;o)
Frankie is a poodle mix - and you know what those Frenchmen are like! ;o) heh heh Yes, I know that Poodles didn't originate in France, but... we're pretending. ;o)
Unfortunately, theirs will have to be a long distance relationship, because Frankie is moving to Northern California to be with his new mommy, and Daisy is staying here with US! (YAY!)
And one more of Daisy, giggling because she's in Frankie's new bed/pocket
I just couldn't stop taking pics of these two pups!! heh heh I've got dozens of them!! Yeesh! Am I obsessed?
I'm knitting away, making lots of peeps, but I never get time to post them. So someday there will be a giant post from me with a hundred peeps in it! (just kidding! I'm lucky to get a peep posted now and then).
More peeps at my flickr pages http://www.flickr.com/knittycat
A Lambie Thank You to Snuffykin...
For all the very hard work she did on the weloveamigurumi swap, and for being the sweetie that she is,
I sent snuffykin this wee limbless Pocket Lambie named Laddie (see snuffykin's awesome creations here)
Laddie atop his grassy hillock (pocket) and wearing his flowery garland
Laddie inside of his grassy hillock (pocket)
Laddie in my hand (he's a wee fellow)
The back of Laddie's flowery garland
The page I sent with wee Laddie
You can see that he is wearing the original "grassy" garland that I made for him in this group of photos,
I made the "flowery" one after and sent them both. :o)
and here's Laddie with his two cousins, inside and atop their grassy hillock pockets
Apologies for the crummy group photos... I didn't have all of them together for long enough to take decent photos.
The first one on the left is Mitzy, who went to my Mum-in-law in Scotland for UK Mother's Day,
the middle one is Laddie,
and the one on the right is Mitzie, who stayed home with us as my dear Hub's Easter Peep
Yes, it's Mitzie and Mitzy... I liked the name! ;o)
I'll post more pics of Mitzy and Mitzie when I put up more of the Easter Peeps. :o)
More peeps pics (but no new ones other than these) on my flickr pages http://www.flickr.com/knittycat
HAPPY SPRING!! :o)
Don't you just LOVE springtime?! :o)
Flowers and Birdies and Baby Animals!! :o) Amigurumi Heaven!
Here's a preview of the peeps I made for Easter ... I'll put up more shots of them soon. I had such fun making these limbless peeps! And I had some wonderful yarn to play with, sent to me by my friend, Romana, of YarnCloud Yarns (www.yarncloud.com)! The textures and colors were exciting and fun! I loved putting together the various color schemes for each of the basket/peep sets.
More about this soon... (well, we
can hope, can't we?)
Happy St. Patty's Day, Everyone!
Yep, I missed Valentine's Day... I'll try to post a few Valentine's things in an Easter post... (crossing fingers that I feel up to that).
Here's a Big something Green for St. Patrick's Day
Marvel Comics the Incredible Hulk! for Matt's Birthday, with his best bud, Lambie Pie... ;o)
Our nephew, Matt, had been wanting a Hulk, since I started making these peeps, but I could never bring myself to make one... But, when I ordered a variety of green yarns to get the right shade for something I was making, one of them arrived and I said... Omigosh... it's Hulk green! And I already had some bluish purple that would work for pants... so there I was, making the Hulk! :o) I intended to make him a LOT smaller, but he just happened! ... these things have a life of their own.
I actually finished him just a day before Matt's birthday (Whew!), last
September! But I could never decide which photos to post, so he's been
languishing, waiting to be seen. He's not really my cup of tea, with his angry
face. I like CUTSEY things! With sweet smiles! But he was a challenge, and I
learned a lot of things while making him that are useful in other projects, as
well. Lambie Pie says that he's much sweeter and nicer than he looks.
One of my fellow amigurumi artists said "he's not angry, just having a bad
face day, I guess". heh heh And that's how I'm looking at him from now on!
;o)
He's not cross-eyed, just a trick of the camera, and the reflectiveness of the eyes, I guess.
He's the largest peep I've made at 15" tall and nearly as wide! And
he's knitted in one piece from toes to top of head, and then each of his arms
knitted in one piece, from fingers to shoulders, and sewn onto the torso. I did
make notes while working on him, so hopefully I will be able to share the
techniques that I discovered, and developed, in the future.
You probably can't tell from my photos, but the waist of his pants is ragged
and ripped looking, with a scrap of white shirt left stuck in it, and the hems
on the pant legs are ripped. I didn't do a good job of capturing that in the
pics, unfortunately. Didn't have him for long after finishing him, and had to
take the pics in a hurry.
I'm kind of fanatical about not wanting to attach pieces, as you might have noticed, and I was pretty tickled with the method I finagled for making his torn up waist, and hems on his pants, with my trusty knitting needles, all in one piece with his body, and never having to sew any bits on! YAY! Too bad it shows up so poorly on the pics.
Also, I found a new and very simple method of making hair while working on
Miss Piggy, for my DH (she's still not finished, unfortunately, so obviously not
posted), and I used it to make the Hulk's hair. It's a really versatile
technique, and very easy to do, too. You can make short or long hair using this
method. I hope to write up a tutorial for it at some point. Or I will at least
post a simple description of the process. As long as you use an eyelash or
fuzzy yarn of some sort, appropriate to your project, it is super easy to do!
And I do like easy! :o)
Happy St. Patty's Everyone!
Lots more Peeps photos to be found at http://www.flickr.com/knittycat
