Tomorrow I will fly...

Gerald finally has joined Piggie. I got his yarn shortly after finishing Piggie, but hadn't felt like working on him until last week. As with Piggie, Gerald is a very heavily modified Kate. He had more increase rounds, additional rows between decreases to elongate his torso, his head is totally different, as are his ears, arms, legs and um... trunk (because Kate doesn't exactly have a trunk does she?). His glasses were found in the doll accessory isle at Michael's, and they are perfect for him.

I debated making him happy or sad, but since he seems to be sad more often than happy in the books, we went with sad.



I have been doing other knitting this last week as well - there's mostly finished Uh-Ohs and a long skinny scarf for Harley in my recent Flickr photos, as well as today's start of my Simple Knitted Bodice.

Today I will fly...

If you have younger kids but aren't familiar with Mo Willems, you should be. His books are completely awesome, and Sage is in love with the Elephant and Piggie books.

The other day she saw a modified Kate that was a pig and she wanted something similar. I already had the yarn (Moda Dea's Metro) in the stash and shortly after casting on, Chris asked if it was going to be Piggie. It hadn't even occurred to me (I was thinking Olivia originally, even though Sage has a plush Olivia). but the inspiration for Piggie was then born.

I had to do some modifications - elongating the upper torso for one, decreasing more for a neck, then increasing again for the head (which should have been a bit bigger) were the major ones. The limbs (and ears and snout and tail) were picked up from the main body and knitted on instead of knitted separately and sewn on, and my embroidering skills leave a bit to be desired, but Sage loves Piggie and is wondering when Gerald will join her (I do not have Gerald-appropriate yarn in the stash, so he has to wait until I find the perfect blue-gray).

Before I even want to consider working on Gerald, the blister on my right ring finger from knitting Piggie must heal (it's already callousing a bit). I think the bulky yarn on US7 bamboo DPNs was a bit much, especially since it took less than 2 days total knitting time. Owie.