Sheldon

We had a great trip to San Francisco over Memorial Day weekend. Of course, a trip to San Francisco lends itself to lots of knitting time on the plane, and I found the perfect project: Sheldon.

I'm really excited with how it came out. And mostly -- I'm thrilled that I think its going to match Jay and Meg's baby room. I don't know how they're doing it -- but somehow they have the patience to not find out the sex of their baby before its born. So they decorated the room in gorgeous greens and yellows with a frog / turtle theme. The pictures look great. Hopefully Sheldon finds a nice home there.

• the materials
  • 2 balls Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino in contrasting colors, I used a dark brown and a light green.
  • 1 pair size 3 straight needles
  • 1 set size 2 double pointed needles
  • polyfill stuffing
  • the pattern
    • The full pattern is available on knitty.com, its called Sheldon.
    • The original pattern calls to use safety eyes. Instead I crocheted some eyes and attached them.
    • eyes, make 2
    • with CC and leaving a long tail, ch 4, form ring with sl st to first ch
    • ch1, 8sc in center of ring, sl st to finish round. Finish off, leaving a long tail, break yarn.
    • attach to head by pulling tail up through the the center of the eye and wrapping the yarn around the eye while attaching the eye to the turtle. Once you go all the way around the eye (maybe 5 or 6 wraps), tie the two tails together in the middle of the eye and pull tails into the head to hide them.
  Tags : toy turtle knitty.com sheldon
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  Posted by Jessica on June 4, 2007 1:31:30 PM EDT #