Pointy Dodecahedron
or.... a 12-pointed star
Dodecahedron is just a fun word. I really don't know if this qualifies as a dodecahedron. Dodecahedron is 12 an object with sides... a cone has 1 side, right? its one long continuous side?? and this has 12 points (cones) -- so I'm going with my original name. This is a pointy dodecahedron.
I'm REALLY happy with this project. As soon as I gave it to Amiya she started playing with it. That was awesome. All those points make it easy for her to grab and bat around. I used yarn I had left over from my Felted Alphabet blocks. I really like the bold colors. I used 6 colors -- 2 points for each color, each on opposing sides of the star.
I actually started this back in February, and finished the first eleven points a week or two after I started. But I wanted to put some bells inside before I finished the last point -- so the project went into a bag til I got my act together and got some bells. Yesterday I went to Petsmart and bought some jingly cat toys to put inside, so this morning I finished knitting the last point - and voila, its done!
- the materials:
- leftover balls of Patons Classic Merino Wool in contrasting colors (paprika, black, rich red, that's blue, leaf green, old gold, royal purple, and winter white)
- set of size 2 double pointed needles
- polyfill stuffing
- 2 jingly-bell cat toys
- the pattern:
Celestine by Berroco- There are a few minor goofs in the instructions, but nothing that you can't figure out as you're knitting it.
- There's NO SEWING required, which I love -- you'll just get REALLy good at picking up stitches (a very good skill to have).
- And what's even better -- you don't have to weave in any of your ends -- they can just hang out and live on the inside of the star with all of your stuffing!
- I used a size 2 needle, which is much smaller than what is called for in the pattern -- but because this was going to be a toy for an infant, I didn't want to risk any of the stuffing coming out - so I used a small needle in order to produce a tight-knit fabric.