Patience, that virtue thingy
My level of patience is, you know, declining.
I am making a stuffed toy. It is a present for someone. This toy is taking a crazy amount of time because there are so many tiny little picky details. Did I mention the details are tiny? And there are a lot of them?
I have made legs and arms. Body, head. Hat. Felt cutouts. Eyes, nose. Sewn bits. STRIPES.
But I just realized that (1) the holes in the top of the arms and legs need to be big enough to put stuffing in. And also that (2) I haven’t made ears. And (3) this animal has a TAIL and I don’t have one of those yet either.
I may finish this toy in 2009. I’m not sure. I’ll have to get back to you on that.
Oh, and I seem to have lost the other toy I’ve been waiting months to put a face on. I suspect the cat stole it. Or at least, she’s a convenient culprit and she can’t talk, so she can’t dispute my efforts to blame her.
Finished! (2 of 5)
Hi again! Still spotty on the appearances here, eh? Meh, that’s just how May goes. Last year I took this week off entirely, and I now vividly recall the reasons for that decision. However, my next vacation is not for some months yet, so I’m hoping for a few days of some exceptionally brainless work in the next month.
I mentioned I was working on some amigurumi for evening decompression, and I have 2 of those ready. Actually, they were finished some days ago, but I had no face pieces to finish ‘em. I ordered a bunch of eyes and noses and now I can make any number of lovely animals. I need to go to the Container Store now and get something so I can separate them all out. So far the “organization system” involves quantities of masking tape.
The elephant’s name is Herman and the dog’s name is Basil. Aren’t they cute?
Heehee! Here’s what they look like from the back. That seam on Basil’s jumper is kind of ick, but that’s kind of what happens when you crochet in a spiral instead of joining the ends and separating each row. I put Basil in a considerably more elaborate sweater than was called for in the pattern (it was all blue with a bottom brown border). Aren’t their tails cute? Aren’t the elephant ears wonderful?
Herman the Elephant was a lot easier and more fun to put together than Basil the Dog. I think that (a) these would’ve been a lot more easy if I’d been able to put the faces on before the heads were stuffed and the bodies were assembled. Also (b) I would’ve put the dog together in a different way. I wasn’t really happy with the way the arms, body and head came together. It was not easy and it didn’t end up making me happy.
Next up are a panda and two cats. I sent these two to work with Jeff (robin’s egg blue and chocolate brown are his favorite color combination), and they now live with the cactus I made for him.
