Also, the hubby got me a stuffed Tails!! He brought it home when I started working on this... fate? Yes, of course.
Let me clear: I am a new knitter, a novice at best. So, while I am critiquing the tutorial, I freely acknowledge that the fault might lie with me as I maybe wasn't ready for it.
With that being said... The tutorial seemed simple enough but I wasn't a big fan about the make 1 right and make 1 left nonsense. She had a tutorial linked to how to do it but it wasn't good enough for me. Plus! She didn't explain how to do it in the round. I had to practice it a couple times before it came out OKish. Maybe, just maybe, if I had used a non-slick yarn that would have also made it easier. But why did things the easy way when I can do it the Laura way? *grumble* So I Googled it and found a better visual of m1r and m1l from New Stitch a Day (love that place!)
I'm not going to lie. I started this project, got around 4 rounds into it, and stared at the tutortial for the next week and a half. I couldn't get the courage up to try and complete it. I even restarted it a couple times to motivate myself to knit Round 5. No clue why it bugged me so much, but it did.
But once I got over my m1r, m1l fear it went ok into the belly (which ALSO had those lovely symbols). Another thing that isn't written clearly is the last round on the belly to make 5 stitches. I misunderstood it and did something else. I will give the tutorial credit for having detailed pictures to other knitting techinques that I didn't know (p2tog tbl for example).
Now, the body. Ugh. I had all the materials for the project, but there isn't a clear way to get the new needles onto the head/body combo in the tutorial. I ended up taking a break here and tried reading it multiple times until it made sense.
And then.... it did. A lightbulb went off. (I think too much with these tutorials sometimes).
With that being said... The tutorial seemed simple enough but I wasn't a big fan about the make 1 right and make 1 left nonsense. She had a tutorial linked to how to do it but it wasn't good enough for me. Plus! She didn't explain how to do it in the round. I had to practice it a couple times before it came out OKish. Maybe, just maybe, if I had used a non-slick yarn that would have also made it easier. But why did things the easy way when I can do it the Laura way? *grumble* So I Googled it and found a better visual of m1r and m1l from New Stitch a Day (love that place!)
I'm not going to lie. I started this project, got around 4 rounds into it, and stared at the tutortial for the next week and a half. I couldn't get the courage up to try and complete it. I even restarted it a couple times to motivate myself to knit Round 5. No clue why it bugged me so much, but it did.
The tip of the nose is weird. I don't think I did it like the tutorial wanted.
You can see it better here... weird with the m1l, m1r.
Somehow, I screwed up the final 5 stitches on the belly.
It worked out later with the grey body, but it wasn't easy. Had to add random stitches to make it work.
Now, the body. Ugh. I had all the materials for the project, but there isn't a clear way to get the new needles onto the head/body combo in the tutorial. I ended up taking a break here and tried reading it multiple times until it made sense.
And then.... it did. A lightbulb went off. (I think too much with these tutorials sometimes).
He's super cute.
The nose still looks funny. No amount of stuffing could fix it. Although, I will admit I should have used more.
You can see that I had a hard time in the beginning attaching the grey to the teal.
Soooo... here's Sonic! I'm going to make a couple more for others =) I loved the teal and grey combo! (For those that know me, this isn't shocking).
Thoughts?
Aren't his ears cute? He looks like an ardvark or anteater. Sigh. I'll pretend it's a hedgehog.
Dominio wasn't sure what to make of him.
"He smells funny."
"Meh, I'm more important than that."
Such a cutie.
Thoughts?
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