Hamster

In direct contrast to my last post, I only managed to keep the plushy draught to two days.

The thing is.. I’ve been wanting to knit for the last couple of evenings, but the project I want to knit is the starry night sweater. I only have one ball left and half of the front and half of the back to complete. One ball will not be enough for that. So at the end of June I ordered more yarn in hopes that I can dye some more starry night shades and get my sweater finished. The yarn was bought in the UK which is now no longer in the EU so I figured it might take a little while, but after three full weeks there still was no word on my package which was shipped July 1st. I sent a message and received a tracking number which states that my package is being held hostage by immigration. I’m fine with paying VAT on it, which I think is what this is about, but they do need to inform me if that’s the case, which they haven’t done. The tracking info states that it’s ok to be released to my local post office on the 16th (!) and also that the package service still has not received it. You can imagine my dismay that the package which I’ve been waiting for is still in some sort of limbo. Aargh. We’ll see what next week brings.

While waiting for my package, I did want to do something while binge watching Bones and I settled on fusing the faces of the three plushies I still have cut. So the hamster got its face, the shark got its eyes and teeth and the sloth got its face too. I started some sewing but mostly continued the next day by stitching some faces down.

The first one that was finished was the free Hamster/Chinchilla pattern from Sew Desu Ne / Choly Knight. I chose to make the hamster because I was intrigued by the head. It has tiny cheek darts to give him an even fuller face. The instructions were very meticulous about sewing the irregular face shapes together. However, I decided to chuck those out the window and just sew it down in one fell swoop. It’s decent enough I think. I really like his little cross features even if it needed to be pink, my least favourite colour.

He’s got a poly-pellet pouch in his bottom but I didn’t fill it enough to offset his giant head so he regularly tips over. If you actively squash him down on a flat surface, he’ll stay upright, so that’s been the method so far. Sewing went smoothly, no picking out or wrong bastes. I guess some focus does help!

Author: Luus

Sewing, knitting, reading and listening to lots of podcasts. View all posts by Luus