Wednesday, March 26, 2025

and it's Uma

 The other thing I completed over break was that unicorn kit I got for free with the voucher I earned at Michael's. 

The box said it should take about 8 hours, and lol at that, it took me a couple days. For something so small, it's pretty fiddly


 I will say there was enough yarn (sometimes kits do run short) and the instructions were clear (and came in both French and English, though I suspect the French may have been autotranslated, the yarn was called "laine 100% polyester" which is funny to me because "laine" is wool. And yes, it's common to refer to knitting yarn as "wool" (or at least in UK writing it is) but "polyester wool"? (you can also use "fil" (thread) for yarn, and so "Fil 100% polyester" might make more sense)

Everything else needed was in there, but I used my own size E hook because the one supplied with the kit didn't have an ergonomic handle and I really prefer those. 

The mane and tail use the same method of "locking" in the hair that I used on the My Little Ponies I have crocheted - where you do something not unlike the half-hitch knot in latch-hooking to anchor the yarn around one of the stitches on the head or the butt. 


 She came named Uma (on the kit) but I kept the name because I kind of like it for her. Those are two little crocheted flowers you make for her to wear on her head. Her horn is made of the same multi yarn as the hooves and the snount, and then you use strands of different colors of yarn for the mane and tail

She is not very large, as you can see:


 

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