And another one

As I've said before, I still like stuffed toys. They are fun to make - and many of them are quick to make, which is nice, to have a fairly-instant-gratification project. And they're fun to have around to look at (and I admit, to hold in your hands....as I've said before, allergy and other issues prevent me from having a "live" pet, so these serve as "pet substitutes")

This year's "free with purchase in December" Mochimochiland pattern was called "Teeter Totter Reindeer" - it's supposed to be a baby reindeer that can't quite stand up yet (there are standing versions, and "collapsed" versions, where the legs are all splayed out).

I got the pattern, but decided that the reindeer looked a bit more like a goat (or a mountain goat) to me, also, the yarn I had in my ministash (mostly leftovers from projects I worked on up there) at my parents' house didn't have a reindeer brown, but it had a cream color. So I made a little mountain goat:



I named him Thomas, after the somewhat-maligned goat intern character on Regular Show. (Also known as "Starter Pack," in at least one episode of the show. A lot of fans of the show apparently hate Thomas and wish he'd be written out. I don't mind him, his presence doesn't bother me at all.)

This Thomas doesn't look a whole lot like the one on the show except for being the same species (genus? I don't know). But you have to name a critter something, and this one looks kind of like a Thomas.

The pattern is quite simple to make (The little legs are kind of tedious to do, but then again, anything you have to make four of gets tedious after a bit). As you can see, the result (in worsted weight) is pretty small - you could perhaps go even smaller (using fingering weight and doing i-cord legs) and make tree ornaments of it.

He also has a little tail. I like it when there are those little finishing features to a critter:



I suppose you could also mod the pattern a bit (using boucle yarn for the body, and maybe doing curly i-cord horns) and make a ram or a sheep. Or, really, pretty much any four-legged animal if you changed colors and swapped out how you did the appendages like ears. (One could, for example, make a very simplified version of Flufflepuff by using a furry or boucle pink yarn, and just doing legs and ears as the add-ons)