#modified pattern

[spooked-skull-studios]

The making of my Vortigaunt plush

Hi! I'm Silas and I frickin love vortigaunts. They're my favourite Half-Life alien :3

Yeah so there are vintage Vort plushies you can buy off like,,,, eBay n shit but they're all around £400-£500 and buddy. I am an unemployed college student. I cannot afford that. SO! I made my own >:3

This is Jeremy the Vort :> (Named by my Grandma BC she couldn't pronounce the word Vortigaunt) h is very silly and looks at me like a borzoi.

The Patterning:

Right off the bat, Jer is made from my own modified version of this pattern

Dragon Plushie Sewing Pattern (Jo Carter)

Click here for the pdf of this pattern. A tutorial is available here, beginning around 0:33:00 in the video.

The Face, Arms and Legs:

These were kinda tricky to make but I eventually figured it out :D (At this stage, their face will look quite scrompled lol)

Body:

Before sewing the body patten together, I attached the third arm through a slit made in the chest piece then stitched the parts together.

After stitching up the body (excluding the seam beneath the legs) and turning it the right way out, I thoroughly stuffed the head and body with an ungodly amount of cotton from college before stitching up the open seam.

i chose to shape the third arm last since it seemed, and turned out, easier.

Final Touches (Aka: Woe, Vortigaunt Be Upon Ye):

The teeth and eyes were the last thing I detailed. I just gently dabbed the eyes with red fabric paint while using an old, crusty paintbrush.

For the teeth, I stitched a freehand pattern with my sewing machine before cutting it out and sewing it under the 'mouth' seam with the teeth seam facing inwards so it was hidden.

So yea! This has been my silly little HL project I've been working on! I'm planning to make another one of my Vort, Void but for now we must wait :>

[readbythestarlight]

Scraps the Octopus

modified from a pattern in the whimsical stitches book. ran out of the gray yarn after only 6 tentacles, so I used some scraps to give them a couple of cute blue “prosthetics”. free-handed the eyes.

[hookedatweiss]

I'm really pleased with how this project is coming along...

[drizzitknits]

Mitten HO!

Since I've been stuck working at home due to further horrible weather, and since I've apparently gotten myself deep into the forest that is knitting podcasts, I've decided to do like four projects at once.

This, combined with me being inspired to use up my stash yarn in a somewhat methodical fashion (because I do everything in a methodical fashion) and start with what's been sitting around the longest, has led to me making mittens over the last two days. Or, rather, A mitten.

This is a modified version of a pattern that's supposedly inspired by Bella's mittens in one of the Twilight movies. I wouldn't know, as I haven't actually seen these films. I just thought the antler cable pattern was pretty fantastic. The mitten is a pastel green that is far less minty green than this. It calls for a bulky weight yarn (the original pattern calls for about 200yds/180m, but I only had 120yds/110m of yarn, so I shortened the cuff). I had a skein of Paton's Beehive Baby Chunky laying around left over from a bunting I made for a friend's baby (who is probably 3 years old by now, so the yarn's been languishing in the drawer for a while). The colourway is called "quicker clover" whatever that means. It's a nice light green that's not quite mint, so take that as you will.

I'll post another photo whenever I have a second mitten. I want to try to finish it by Sunday to have another thing to enter into Ravellenic Winter Games 2014, but I'm having "second sock syndrome" as it were and I'm trying to muster the Can to cast on for the second one. I worked the whole thing on DPNs and while I actually like knitting on DPNs, unlike many, I will admit that they do have a tendency to get horridly in the way of one another at points and aren't the best when you're trying to cable front and then cable back on the same DPN.