APAD(ish) #5: Nessie

[nonelvis]

It's my friends' son's first birthday today, so having sent them Top-Seekrit Knitting Project, I can finally reveal it here:





The Nessie pattern comes from Amigurumi Knits, and though my grafting definitely needs work, this was a pretty easy pattern to follow. Also, the book comes with some of the clearest photographic stitch instructions I've seen, and turns out to have been worth buying just for that reference material.

I'm thinking of making the book's peapod pattern with the leftover green yarn, or possibly another Loch Ness monster, if I have enough blue to do a reverse-colored one. But first, a sweater for myself, once I get off my ass and go buy more yarn.

Comments

[platypus]

I love that first shot. Very expressive for a knit sea monster :).

[nonelvis]

I like to think that quizzical curved head is some deliberate part of the pattern, as opposed to my screwing up the stuffing or the grafting tension.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

AWWWWW.

[nonelvis]

Thanks! She was so cute that I had a hard time packing her up and shipping her off, let me tell you.

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

oh it's so awesome. if i had one it would hang out with mah plushie TARDIS.

why *does* nessie always have those weird knobs on its head? plesiosaurs don't seem to have knobs, so i wonder.

[nonelvis]

Google tells me that some eyewitnesses claim Nessie has horns. (It fails to mention whether any of these "eyewitnesses" were drunk at the time.)

[livii.livejournal.com]

Love it!

[nonelvis]

Thank you!

[gritsinmisery.livejournal.com]

Daughter and I both say, "Awwwwwww. Such a face!"

[nonelvis]

Thank you!

[syzygy-lj.livejournal.com]

Very nice! I like the colours!

[nonelvis]

Thanks! The book uses a gray-blue for the skin and a blue for the belly, but I couldn't find a gray-blue I liked. I'm pleased with the way these colors worked out instead.

[mmancuso.livejournal.com]

I am the Local Arbiter of Vast Cuteness, and I am happy to say that I'm going to have to get a new QT Meter. The Needle screamed, turned on its heel, and stalked past "100% cute" in a huff.

[nonelvis]

Ha! And I know you know from cute ;)

[calapine.livejournal.com]

NESSIE! Oh, that is smashing, yes.

[nonelvis]

Thank you! I really might have to make another one to keep for myself.

[haineux.livejournal.com]

Man, I hate to be the one to point this out, but mere hours after I saw your undeniably cute Knitted Nessie, I saw this: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28705054

Aw hell, she knit a meerkat nativity and a meerkat Puritan for thanksgiving.

[nonelvis]

That is ridiculous, yet completely awesome.

[profrobert.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for this lovely gift. You are really too kind. Nathan had a delighted roll-around and nomming session with Nessie today. Pictures will be posted eventually.

[nonelvis]

I'm so glad Nathan loves his toy! It was lots of fun to make. I look forward to the pictures!