A knitted toy

This is another over-break project. I used Rebecca Danger's "Basil the Boogie-Woogie Brontosaurus" pattern for this.

Only, my brontosaurus' name is Bronwen, and she's a girl.



And she's more into poetry than boogie-woogie.

You can see how enormous she is from that photograph. (I originally tried to pose her sitting on the piano bench, with her front feet on the keys - she's big enough, but too floppy to stay, and I didn't feel like trying to figure out some invisible way to prop her up when I was taking the photo).

And note that she is a she. You can tell because of the eyelashes.



(When I was a child, and was drawing animals, if I wanted the animal to be a girl, I indicated that by giving her eyelashes. Heh. Wasn't there a line in "The Dark Crystal" about girl Gelflings being different from boy Gelflings because girl Gelflings had wings?)

I used "Bamboo Ewe," which is one of the Debbie Stoller-branded yarns from Coats and Clark. It's a fairly nice yarn to knit with for a basic yarn, and it is natural fibers. The colors were "Mermaid" (the more blue green, and that's the same color I used for Beemo's body) and "Sprout" (the more yellowish green).

This really does work up into an enormous toy when you use worsted weight yarn. (I suspect if you used a superbulky, you'd wind up with something large enough for a small child to use as a riding toy). I have to admit, knitting this huge critter kind of "broke" me for a while from wanting to make more toys... I had brought the makings for Robbie the Robot (another Rebecca Danger pattern) along but just didn't feel like getting to it. Or to making an amigurumi of Lyra.

Though now I'm beginning to think about doing that Lyra amigurumi. Yes, yet ANOTHER pony. (And my Lyra is NOT going to be like that infamous one making the rounds of the internet: as I've said before my love of ponies is that it allows me to revisit who I was at seven years of age, and I didn't know about ANY of that stuff at seven years of age).

I've gone back and forth on whether to try to do her as "sitting Lyra" or just do her quadrupedally, like the other ponies. I think I've decided now I'm going to do her as a quadruped - in the same pose as the other ponies I've made. So they "match."

(One of these days, I am going to have to do a "go forth, my minions" photograph, lining up my various creatures I've made off of the Friends Forever Fawn pattern....I have Rupert the deer and also Teal Deer, in addition to the four ponies I've already made.)

And after Lyra, sometime I still contemplate making a DJ Pon-3. Because I have the perfect yarn for her mane and tail. And now that we know more or less what her "real" eye color is....