My Aunt has a cool new set of patterns out for crochet finger puppets in a sort of Halloween theme. I have so far made the mummy and the one-eyed creature. The mummy was super easy, and with my natural colored wool, it has a sufficiently decayed-bandage look. I thought about leaving the tail of yarn untucked for an unravelled vibe, but could see that being chewed off in a matter of no time. You'll have to excuse her liberal lipstick application: being tightly wrapped and in a dark tomb for thousands of years, she has gotten a little out of practice.
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| Mummy |
Bolstered by the success of my mummy wrapping, I set out to make the monster, but apparently I don't actually know how to crochet (which I don't think surprises anyone). Anyway, my attempt at a triple crochet caused the round to increase, and I decided it looked more like a set of sepals on a fruit. Then of course I had to make the tomato that went with the sepals. At which point I realized the sepals looked most like they belonged to an eggplant. Good thing I just happen to have purple yarn, huh? I made skinnier sepals for the tomato, and an eggplant body for the original sepals. When I made the tomato I just decreased by skipping a loop, but fortunately before I made the eggplant I saw instructions for invisible decrease. I'm not sure I did it right, because you can see a spiral along the eggplant's neck, but at least there aren't gaping holes.
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| Eggplant and Tomato |
Then I figured out where I went awry with the triple crochet and made a better lumpy monster. I don't have plain white and black yarn, so instead I used embroidery thread, and gave him 3 eyes to keep the scale true. He says "hi!" for he is a friendlier monster than the mummy gal.
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| Bumpy Monster |
