From here on out, every second Friday will be Fibre Art Friday. Fibre Art Friday posts will feature photographs of crocheted, knitted, or woven creations made from spun fibres from sheep, alpaca, the cocoons of silkworms, bamboo or wood or corn pulp, and so on.
This week's creation is what I called Operation Albino Sand Mongoose whilst it was in progress: a stuffed toy meerkat.
For Christmas, I received a few books, one of which was the book Knitted Meerkats by Sue Stratford. This little guy started out as a sort of dare to myself: could I actually make something like this, despite being an absolute beginner knitter?
Turns out the answer is yes. :)
Since I didn't have the beige yarn the instructions called for, I knitted this guy from white commercial wool and some of my own handspun brown-toned Blue-faced Leicester (for the contrasting features). Once I had all the parts knitted, I sewed most of him together, stuffed him with hypoallergenic acrylic stuffing, gave a rose petal heart, and weighted down with 40c in his bum to make him stand upright, and finishdd sewing him up. His head and back legs are fixed, but his forelegs are movable, and his tail can be shaped to a certain extent.
I'm pretty happy with how he's turned out, although next time I'll use a fuzzier yarn: when his "skin" was pulled taut as I gave him his stuffing, some of the stitches pulled and you could see the stuffing underneath. This guy still isn't a quite finished; I need to find some beads to serve as his eyes. Since he is white, I think I'll give him one gold and one blue eye, in honour of my foster kittens Lea and Luc.
Next time on Fibre Art Friday: hopefully pictures of my completed hooded capelet!
A domani!
C xoxo
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