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.)

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Pattern adaptations:

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

For the record and future google-searchers, the changes I made to the dodo pattern are basically:

I did the wings as one piece instead of two, used another adapted wing as the tail, and did a mini-wing as the crest. (three small loops instead of four, and two larger loops). The beak is the very front bit of the dodo’s beak. The neck is longer than in the original dodo, and the legs are basically the same pattern as the head, over pipe cleaners wrapped in felt and needle-felted together.