10/18/2022 Pattern: M'sters KXS!
Click here to download the .pdf directly. Pattern is also available on Ravelry.
Quick Facts: -Yarn: 10-12 yards/meters of medium to dk weight yarn (7.25 yards/7m in a Main Color, 2.6 yards + 12" piece/2.5 m + 30 cm (samples use Mainstays Basic for the green and yarns from various unravelled commercially produced sweaters) -Needles: samples used 3.25mm needles. Use a needle that creates a dense gauge with your yarn without straining your hands. -Embroidery Floss for mouth: 5"/13 cm -Finished doll measures about 2"/5 cm tall and has a wingspan of about the same distance -After getting into the swing of it, you might be able to memorize the pattern and take about 45 minutes to make each doll. I am excited to give to you the latest development in my Crocheter's Delight: Trick-or-Treater's Disappointment series! I know this is a knit pattern, but when I first started handing out trinkets (instead of buying candy), the trinkets were crochet, and the name stuck, at least for now. I'm particularly pleased with how I overcame the challenge of making the doll in one piece without having to create arms separately and sew them on later. If you are a beginner, this pattern may test your skills. First of all, it is small and fiddly, there are increases and decreases, mid-row cast-on and bind-off (to create the arms), putting stitches on hold and picking them up later (to create the second leg), but I hope none of this deters anyone. After a doll or two, you will probably get the hang of it. During the design process, I naturally made several of these and eventually had the pattern memorized and could make one in about 45 minutes from cast on to completion. I enjoy making handfuls of these little guys to hand out on Halloween, and even though I named the series of patterns "...Trick-or-Treater's Disappointment," I have never received complaints. On the contrary, I have received many compliments and smiles in return. Come to think of it, I was on foot those years that I started this tradition, and I think I would have seen them discarded on the ground if they were truly disappointing, or at least, as disappointing as the other litter one sees after a Beggar's Night. So they weren't as bad as litter, I suppose, ha! If you decide to hand them out instead of candy, I hope for nothing less for you. Make a Michael Myers version of the doll by using blue for the Main Color (his jumpsuit) and stick a pine needle (or the end of a toothpick) in his neck to represent the knitting needle that didn't end up killing him ;-) I'm using mine, which spent a year at the bottom of a heavily used backpack with some mint that had been picked fresh and also spent about 6 months down there, as a hair accessory. I had a metal barrette with plastic cover from about 1989, and I just wiggled the straight metal part through a stitch on the doll and slid it all the way down to the end so it is kinda dangly. Stick hooks in them or apply a chain to make hanging ornaments. Probably not a good idea to give the "knitting needle" version to small children. There is a crochet version available that is less fiddly and takes less time to create, so you can check it out here on my blog (or here on Ravelry) if you'd prefer that version. Comments are closed.
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