I finished the Spherey doll:



(Actually, this one's name is Eggbert deSpherical. And when he was done, he looked too bald to me, so I made him a little hair out of the same yarn his arms and legs are made of).

As I was working on him, I remembered a Humpty Dumpty doll I had when I was a child - it was one of those "flatsy" (as my mom called them) type ragdolls that used to be very common in the fabric shops: two flat panels you sewed together and stuffed, to make a pillowlike doll that was more or less shaped like the animal or figure it was designed to represent.

I remember the Humpty Dumpty I had was two sided - on one side, it was the happy smiling (pre-fall) Humpty (Too much religious training: I feel as if I should write that pre-Fall). On the other side, was Humpty, back on the wall, but obviously post-fall: crying, with a crack in his egg head. I always felt sorry for the cracked-side Humpty and much preferred the smiling side.

Memory is a funny thing. I had not thought about that toy until I was working on a vaguely egg-shaped toy, 30 years or more later. (I also remember once in high school, seeing someone walking on campus wearing a Gumby t-shirt and having a remarkable vivid "sense memory" of having chewed - yes, chewed - on something shaped like Gumby's head. My mother later confirmed that when I was very young, I had a bendable Gumby someone gave me, and she had to take it away because the wire poked through. That would have been before I was really laying down "conscious" episodic memories - all I remembered was the feel of that shape in my mouth.)

Eggbert's "hair" is fun to play with - and hard to adjust perfectly to an ideal style. But if you pull it all up straight, his true nature comes out:



He's at least part onion! (I think this is not unlike some of the odd cute San-X characters that are based on food).

It was a fun pattern to knit up, and easy enough if you've worked in the round before. It's a Jess Hutch pattern. (And, oh sad, I see she's not printing any more of her toy booklets, at least for now... but I'm sure her rabbit and cat patterns that are online are just as easy, and they're cute too. And maybe she'll publish more patterns at some future date).

The finished product (heh, at first I typed "produce") is satisfying to hold - he is just about the size of both my cupped hands together. He seems to have taken to hanging out on my bookcase.

I'm working on the "Clone Mr. Dangly" project right now, but I also want to make one of the robots from the book too.