amigurumi: ur doin it rite!

yes, it looks a bit like the last post! frankly, most amigurumi begins in a circle, but looky what i made! a HOLE! this phoenix body needed a hole in both ends of a sphere. this sphere will have a dowel running through it that continues up the neck (yet unmade!). here is my first attempt (after i remembered about the hole and tore out the actual first attempt). i abandoned it because of the wonky shape of the hole and the arrhythmic increases.

version 2 started with a joined chain ring of 18 stitches. i then went around the ring through the center for 24 stitches. (amigurumi LOVES multiples of 6!) since i started my increases every 4th stitch on the next round, every 5th, every 6th and at this row, i am at one increase at every 7th stitch.

much happier with the results. good amigurumi has such a nice body to it when you are doing it right!

the baby phoenix looks a lot like a large bladder with a little neck. i WISH i had started from the top down on that one, but alas. i am going forward with it as is. the next step for that is the felting.

baby in the making!

this is the inside of the baby phoenix which is about 5 inches now in circumference and will be felted before i am done.

round and round i go!


edited to add:
hmm...i wonder if i should have started at the top DOWN. dang.

devil's snare scarf...done.

snakey's lost her slytherin mind

anguinea of Slytherin proposes to tackle Option 2 for a Magical Creatures OWL.

“Option 2: Hatch an Egg. Identify your egg (dragon, phoenix, etc.) and knit or crochet an object inspired by your creature. If you make a physical creature it must be a minimum of 12 inches in at least one dimension.”

I intend to create a fully-grown Phoenix seated upon a perch and, since a Phoenix does not come from an egg, a Phoenix chick emerging from ashes.

evile project is too evile

my "dangerous" project is killing me slowly, but not in a good way. i do NOT like it so far, and i am running out of both green yarn and time. i think this one might just have to go in the "get it done" category. they can't all be winners, i guess.

i have to focus on the amigurumi. every time i stray, i fail.

OWL ideas sketches...

thinking i might try for a "magical creature" OWL, i did some sketches from the HP lexicon's bestiary.
these were ones my kid thought might be good to see in 3-D:

Streeler: Giant African snail that changes colour every hour, and deposits a trail of venom as it moves that kills and shrivels all vegetation over which it passes, and which can kill horklumps. It is often kept as a pet...

edited after deciding not to do the zoo idea...i think i WILL do this creature eventually!

the dangerous scarf w.i.p.

i have about 2 dozen leaves so far (most smaller than the last ones i showed you), a possible tendril and i started the bulk of the middle of the scarf today.

this month is whizzing by! i am not sure i will be able to get my owl proposal together in time, but my kid and i picked out 5 likely candidates for a magical creature "zoo". i have to do some sketches and get my yarns together for a post by the end of the month!