Today, I want to show you some pictures of the Tinkerbell I made.
I know, I
know! I finished it for Christmas, and then I didn't even post anything about
it! It's been over a month since I finished it! Anyway, at least I remembered
to take pictures, right? Well, here they are. I did not record the pattern, and
I did some weird things.
2:
SC2 in one, SC 1* repeat until end of round (15)
3:
SC2 in one, SC2* repeat until end of round (20)
4:
SC2 in one, SC3* repeat (25)
5:
SC2 in one, SC4* repeat (30)
6:
SC2 in one, SC5* repeat (35)
7-12:SC
in each stitch around (35)
13:
2tog, SC5 (30)
14:
2tog, SC4 (25)
15:
2tog, SC3 (20)
16:
2tog, SC2 (15)
17:
2tog, SC1 (10)
Next was the hair. To get a head of hair that didn't have the head color showing through the strands of hair, I used the color I was going to use for the hair and did rows 1-11 from the head instructions above.
I didn't stick the scalp or thread the hair in until I had formed the torso, I didn't want to make the hair one way and then as I continued from the neck, have the hair in the wrong direction. Sorry, I'm not skilled enough to correctly form body parts in the right directions yet. Then, I would grab a really long piece of yarn, and fold it in half. I would thread the folded section into the eye of the needle and pull it through about one inch. Then I would insert it into the head cover, about where I wanted the ponytail/bun to be. I pulled the yarn until I was left with the length of yarn I wanted my ponytail to be. Then I would continue threading the "hair" into the head cover in the direction I wanted the hair to lay. When I near the end of the yarn I pull it through a loop near the front and a little to the right (Where I wanted the roots of the bangs) and I cut the yarn to take out the needle. That way it also gave me two "hairs" for the bangs and two for the pony tail. Once I had the hair that just laid across the scalp done, I used shorter lengths of yarn and simply worked on either fluffing out the ponytail or the bangs.
After I finished the head, I continued onto the body. At that point I left holes in the left and
right sides where I could continue arms from (because I didn't want to sew on
the arms). I also switched into green yarn to make the dress. When I thought
the torso was long enough, I created two circles (yes, there is a slight hole
between the legs, but this is easily sewn up, and again, I didn't want to sew
on the legs). At some point I switched back to the skin color, and finished off
the feet. Which look weird to me, and don't look the same.
Any way, I
didn't like the 'dress' look because it came out kind of lopsided. So, I took
the same color green yarn, and a yarn needle, and I sewed over the green. Next
I made a skirt by folding yarn in half, threading it into the needle, pulling
through a stitch, and then pulling the ends through the loop (created when
folding the yarn in half). Finally, I stitched a boarder into the top of the
dress using the light green that I used for some of the skirt.
Ahh, that's right. I also made the wings. I don't really want to even talk about them. They are asymmetrical, and yeah. I just crocheted a chain, went back, and yeah. Maybe I will officially make a bunch of wings and get around to recording the pattern, but right now I don't want to say something and it turns out to be completely different from the wings I made.
TaDa!
Tinkerbell! So, she is larger than how I wanted, but once I did the head, I
didn't want to undo all my work (yes, I think we've established that I am
lazy). So I went with it to see how it turned out, and I got a doll sized
Tinkerbell. Not bad, but next time I'll make it more petite, and maybe not take
so many shortcuts.
If all of
this doesn't make sense, I completely understand, and I'm sorry.
Have a nice
day!!
Sarah
