I finished a "Bob:"



This is from the free pattern at Mochimochiland. Bob's author says he is inspired by one of those things that go in the toilet tanks (those ovally rubber things - I think they're technically known as floats).

My Bob is made out of "Bottle Green" Paton's Mosaic. (So he's "bottle-green Bob.")

One thing I like about the critter is even though he's no animal in particular, he reminds me of several other animals:

you could add some ears and have a little elephant
or you could call him an anteater if you wanted
(one of the critters he especially reminds me of, for some reason, is the pangolin or scaly anteater. When I was a child, I had a set of those little plastic toy zoo animals, and one of my favorites - partly because it was so weird and partly because of its shape - was the little pangolin. [yes, there was a pangolin in the set I had.] There was an armadillo too, and as a child, I imagined the armadillo and pangolin would be friends because they shared some similarities of appearance.)

He also reminds me of chanchitos, those little South American pottery pigs that are thought to be good luck charms (three-legged chanchitos, where the third leg is attached in the middle so the pig stands like a tripod, are thought to be especially lucky; I have a three-legged chanchito that a friend brought me back from a trip to - Chile, I think it was).

You could make a chanchito off of the pattern by adding ears and only making three legs, and attaching the third leg in between where the two hind legs would go. You'd also have to make the snout shorter and thicker, probably by starting by casting on more stitches.

My Bob took less than a skein of Paton's "Mosaic." So, he took less than 75 yards of bulky-weight yarn.

I used 15 mm lock-washer type eyes for my Bob.

The "squishiness" of the yarn makes him fun to pet.



I also decided to order the "Uh-Ohs" pattern that she sells because it makes me laugh, and there's something almost metaphorical about it. (I'll have to get some feltable fingering weight yarn though before I can make them).

I'm also working on the "horseshoe crab" socks.

It's hard to adequately show a lace-stitch pattern while in progress, but here's an attempt.

I'm pretty happy with it; I think it will make nice-looking socks.