I've been stuck at home for the past two days with a brutal sinus infection, so I decided, instead of working with the sea slug version, I'd start over from scratch and maybe figure out where I went wrong. I'm glad I did because this wee little Nessie is damn adorable - I almost don't want to give her to Dave for Valentine's Day.This time I opted for a pink belly. I really liked all the suggestions I got when I requested a belly colour - and I almost went with yellow, but I wasn't sure if I would have enough yellow yarn. So on the first one I did a blue-green belly, similar to what was used in the pattern - but it just wasn't doing it for me. Then I spied this pink yarn in my basket. It's perfect!
And it's such a fat little belly - you just want to smoosh it!I used glass seed beads for the eyes to give them a little bit of shine.
And as mentioned before - though the pattern calls for worsted weight - I used sock yarn, so Nessie is much, much smaller... how small?
That small!Yes working with sock yarn on 2mm needles made a fiddly pattern even fiddlier - but look at her... she's so cute!
And don't worry about Nessie's slightly deformed brother - I'm going to disembowel him and redo his belly. Eventually (because I'm in no rush fiddle that much any time soon) he'll look just as cute!
Now I need something mindless... Crackghan anyone?
11 comments:
Oh she's adorable! And she's waving too! It would be hard to give her up for me. Lucky Dave! :o)
I would love to make more knit toys but I hate the fiddliness of it, so more than one a year is not in my stars. :o)
Oh how cute!!!
Pink is just PERFECT for her belly. She is indeed adorable.
She's adorable!
So very cute!
She is very cute. I like the beads for the eyes.
Now that is a sea monster! And everyone knows that sea monsters have pink tummies.
That is so cute (can sea monsters be cute?) - image what you could have created if you were home for longer - a whole family:)
She's darling! I'm very impressed. I don't think I could do that even if I didn't have a sinus infection!
She's so cute - the pink belly looks just right!
Very cute! Hope you are feeling better!
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