Victory!

[firstfrost]

(Shh! Secret Posting That treiza can't see!)

Yesterday, I finished the lace stole I've been working on since June, and decided to start something little. Now, when treiza was out here, she saw Tentaculus and decided he was adorable and she wanted a cuttlefish too. After she left, though, mjperson set me straight.

"treiza doesn't really want a cuttlefish, she wants a chocobo."
"... But she asked for a cuttlefish!"
"That's because she doesn't know she can have a chocobo instead."

Now, hopefully, this isn't going to be one of these things like rifmeister not liking pirates any more, and chocobos are no longer the Thing, because I made a chocobo. He's based on the pattern for a Mauritius Dodo here, which seems to be the pattern that people adapt to make chocobos, but my chocobo is Different.

Like the dodo, all the other amigurumi chocobos (like this one or these) are sitting birds, with their feet stuck out in front of them.



My chocobo stands up.

Oh, yeah, and I finished my lace stole:

But... my chocobo stands up! I am quite ridiculously pleased with myself. I think there's a lesson here about gratification and amounts of work, but I'm not sure it's one I should take to heart.

Anyway, don't tell! Chocobo heading West soon.

(Edited to no longer be Secret, since the chocobo has arrived.)

Comments

[remcat.livejournal.com]

Well, if SHE doesn't want it....

Seriously, it's adorable. I love that it stands up.

Beautiful lace, as always. I'm four-and-a-half repeats (and a very long kitchener -- 166 stiches!) away from finishing my first lace project. Speaking of ... do I block before or after grafting the two halves together?

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

I'd graft first and then block. If you wanted to be really precise, you might graft, then pin it out, then adjust the tension of the Kitchener stitches, and only *then* weave in the tail. Then you'd be more sure that the stitch size was the same on the graft as on the rest of the piece.