Started: May 5, 2021
Finished: May 30, 2021
Made for: Síle aka me/ Pukwudgie House Challenge 2021/ Wampus House
Yarns: Red Heart Super Saver (100% acrylic; 364yds = 198g)
- 0.17 skeins/ 34 g of "Brown" = 62.5 yds
- 0.2 skeins/ 40 g of "Cream" = 73.54 yds
- 0.96 skeins/ 438 g of "3001 Cream" = 851.5 yds
Hook size: 3.75mm/ US F5 (all body pieces of llama)
Notes & photos:
4/25: Getting this set up in advance of the Pukwudgie House Challenge. They're taking us to the Andes Mountains!! Of course my mind goes immediately to llamas. And wouldn't you know I have two patterns saved from Red Heart for llamas - one crochet, one knit. I'm opting for the knit one just because I know I knit faster than I crochet. I can get the body color yarn this Friday as we'll be going up to get cat food and other odds and ends then. I have a lot of various colors to make the blanket and pompoms already so just the llama color is needed. Am toying with not using natural/cream since actual llamas come in all kinds of colours and variations.
I wonder how many llama related entries this Challenge is going to see?? I have a feeling there will be a few!! Now to get other things finished so I can have the time and space to get this guy done when the Challenge starts :)
May 5: Time to get started and just knowing how amigurami work better in crochet, I've changed pattern and technique to crochet this little guy.
later: It doesn't look like much but it's a start!
May 6: Almost through the 22nd rnd of the head and neck section, and I need to join in the cream/natural. And asap get up to Wallyworld for more of both colors! (I thought I had more of both; oops!) Here's where I'm to with it:
You can see there's a small gap in the "fleece". I joined in the cream and filled it in in pattern, and now will continue with cream until that runs out too. I said I was going for a multicoloured llama, and pretty close out of the gate I'm getting one :D
May 8: Llama head/fleece construction continues! You can see 3 bands of fleece now (and I have "Fleece Navidad" stuck in my head lol):
May 14: Was to Wallyworld today so grabbed one of the large balls of Red Heart Comfort in Cream so I'll have enough yarn to finish this guy. Now to get cracking with the hook!
later: head weighs 101g altogether. 34g is the brown. Roughly 1 g is the blue and black for the eyes. So 66g of the two creams, mostly the RHSS. I need to weigh the RHC to see how much of it was used... Um, I don't think my RHC started as a full ball. It now weighs 398g, 56g less than a full ball. However I used way more of the RHSS cream than the RHC. Ugh. I hate when things don't balance out properly. And I am not undoing the whole head to get the exact numbers; beans on toast to that noise! Am guesstimating I used 40g of RHSS & 26g of RHC, and have calculated the yardage used based on those numbers.
Now for photos! I crocheted eyes rather than buying doll eyes; I don't have a hobby store here that I can just pop into. Note that I haven't made the ears yet and it's looking rather sheep-like right now. Here it is!
Front view!
Left side of head
Right side of head
Next up the neck and stuffing the head!
May 18: I started the body, and joined the head/neck to it last night. The rnds where the fleece are made take soooooo long to do! I can do the other two rnds of the pattern in about 20-25 minutes; the fleece rnds take over an hour. Here's the latest progress:
May 19: I have a lot of rnds left on the body; let's see where I can get to today! I'm throwing a parade when I get to the legs lol; nice small rnds!
May 25: I finally finished the straight rnds of the body!!!!!!! What a marathon it was to get here! And here's photos at this point (I've actually worked 2 rnds further; the first two dec rnds but these were taken at the end of the straight section):
He's quite long now!
Looking inside: how smooth
Looking outside: That's some serious fleece
May 26: Ok, it took a slightly longer time to finish the body because I ran out of stuffing! But(!) I was given some super-chunky acrylic chenille-esque yarn around December that hurts my hands just looking at it; it's soooooo thick! And I can't imagine what size needles/hook would be needed to work it into anything; one that would also hurt my hands, no doubt about that. So, I stuffed one such ball into the llama's backside, and voila! C'est magnifique! No really, look:
Onto the legs!
May 30: Done! It's been a whirlwind of leg and other appendage making and stuffing, and sewing up, but the little guy in s done! Here are two side shots to go with the completed photo at the top of the page:
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