This is the continuation and conclusion of the project I started writing about here and then continued here.
For the top of the back section I started with the eye sockets. I decided to use the two ends of the ball of yarn : from the middle of the yarn ball and from the outside end of the yarn. This made the process ‘easier’ because I was done in no time and I could just replicate the shape in the knitting graph paper. You can see the start when I'd just cast on in the photo above.
Fig A showing the two back sections, and Fig B showing the overlapped back sections.
In the two photos above you can see what the back piece looks like. The idea is that as happens in many hot water bottle covers there's an overlap of the top section so there’s an enclosed opening to insert a wheat bag or a small hot water bottle. This way it's easier and it doesn't need a zipper or a button to keep the back closed.
One advantage of using such thick yarn is that the knitting grows very quickly. The photo above shows you the graph to one side and the pieces needed for the frog where I’ve already sewn the two feet together because I couldn’t wait to see whether it would ‘work’ or not.
Sewing the arm to the back and then sewing around the body.
I altered the original arm design a bit. I thought it would make things faster if I added the stitches for the arms on the front section only. In the original design drawing I added 4 squares equalling to 4 stitches for the arms. When I added those 4 stitches I thought that would be too short and added two more stitches to each side. I therefore needed to add 12 stitches altogether which I then just had to fold and sew to the back where needed.
The knitting was done in a very short time. The sewing took a bit longer because I could not honestly see the stitches clearly but the colour and texture allowed quite a few imperfections.
I embroidered the face very carefully with brown yarn. I don't normally do embroidery but I enjoyed that and may do some more in the future.
My friend was very surprised with her present. We are now investigating sewing a small cotton wheat bag. I've even found a tutorial on how to do this on You Tube :
I'll be watching other options as well to see what we can learn from them. Thank you for reading !
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