3 posts tagged “sheldon”
I just realized that this is my first finished object of the year. Wow. I'm totally slacking. Well, my first knit finished object, I've sewn a few things.
So check out TurtleButt!
He has a body and clothes and legs and everything. I sewed the last two legs on at my knit night last night. Leave it to wanting oohs and ahhs over a cute knitted toy to get my project finished. Tonight I plan on dragging TheHusband to the bookstore to buy some board books for my nephew then we can pack up and send the birthday present.
What I will do differently next time:
- stuff his body in intervals as it was no fun to stuff his boy through the tiny neck opening
- stuff his shell even less
- leave longer tails after the cast-off of the legs to use for sewing
- leave a slightly bigger neck opening
- follow the pattern's advice regarding the i-cord
- I'd also like to learn a better way to seam the beginning of the i-cord to the end of the i-cord
Sheldon the turtle butt now has a neck, head, eyes, legs and shell. I'm currently in the middle of doing the attached i-cord to put the shell together, then I will stuff and sew on his legs. I missed my own personal deadline, but luckily my nephew probably won't notice (or remember if my SIL cooperates) that his first birthday present didn't arrive on his birthday.
Saturday evening I finally hand-stitched the binding onto the oven mitts and finished my first project almost completely done on my sewing machine. I was really happy that I decided to stitch the quilting lines about 2 inches apart on the oven mitts because all that quilting, even on a machine, got old fast. And I had to pull out the old machine to sew the binding on since the diameter of the babylock's free-arm was just a bit too big for the oven mitts' opening. But the project is done and ready to be packed up and shipped off to my mom. I hope the insul-bright batting works effectively. The potholder pattern is from Amy Butler's In Stitches book and I traced my favorite oven mitt for the oven mitt pattern. Originally I was hoping for two matching oven mitts but didn't have enough fabric. I bought 1/2 yard of each fabric seen and that was basically just enough, I have 2 bias binding strips leftover, 2 triangles from either side of cutting the bias binding and a few pieces of quilted scraps from the oven mitts.
As I knit Sheldon from Knitty the phrase what's up turtle butt? keeps going through my head. Was that a grade school joke or is my inner 5 year old simply amused at the word butt?
Anyways. I am finally knitting Sheldon, just one of the many things on my "to knit" list. I put the Tomten on hold, because I want to send Sheldon to my nephew for his 1st birthday on February 14. I just finished round 45 on the body and have done about 15 rounds a day. I haven't done the time-line but I hope I can make my deadline. I'm being sort of boring with my first Sheldon and knitting him in the called for yarn in the colors green apple and butter. His body as you can see is green apple and his shell will be butter with green apple contrast.
