Friday, September 09, 2005

Introducing Citrine!

(and reintroducing Pasha!)

You all already know Pasha.

I'd like to introduce to y'all Ms. Citrine - named after the orangy colored gemstone.

Pattern: From the Japanese book with ISBN 4391130122
Yarn: Lion Brand Microspun in Mango
Hook: USF5 (3.75mm)

That's right! Hook, not needle! I'm a Hooker now! ;) Continuing to branch out in my fiberly arts, I've now picked up crocheting in addition to knitting and spinning.

Comments: After learning the basics from a friend, I was cranking out kitty bits in a reasonably quick pace. A little bit of creativity was used in changing colors (being self taught and all, and not finding any direction in either of the two crochet books I have). Assembly of the kitty from the neck on down was wonderfully easy. I can't say the same for the head. I think I spent as much or more time working on Citrine's head as I did assembling the rest of her!

The first delay was in creating her muzzle - attaching her nose was no problem, but getting her mouth done took a few tries. Once complete, attaching her muzzle posed no difficulty. The next trial in frustration were her ears - I think I attached each ear at least twice. And the final bit of frustration was sewing on her eyes. I first tried french knots, so it would look like her eyes were open, after attempting several tries and not being happy with any of the results, I fell back to the line-shaped eyes as illustrated in the book. I never knew sewing two lines would be so difficult! Ah well, she's done now, and looking quite good, if I do say so myself :)

4 comments:

Jeri said...

Stephanie, I adore Citrine!!! She is so beautiful. That color is fantastic.

Will you please go look at my blog http://scoobagirl.typepad.com and then e-mail me about the cat pattern? I'd like to ask for some help from you if I could (maybe we could do a "trade"?"

Thanks in advance...
Jeri Mihm

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Linster said...

I seem to be a bit behind everybody on this cat project - just found it and it's *supercute*! Yours is definitely one of the better... But can you tell me how much yarn it requires? I can't find recommendations anywhere.

Happy crafting!
/Linn

Taci said...

See my cat.
I loved your litle cat!