It's Alive!

I am proud to finally say I have completed a project! (As in took no shortcuts and finished the whole thing!)

There is one thing I would like to say: 1 ball of yarn is not enough for the main colour. I even skimped by making the white sections on his arms and tail longer so that I would have more left over. I had a little whispering in the back of my head saying 'Jessica there is not enough yarn in this little ball to make ears and 3 arms'. Luckily I went out and bought another ball of almost the same colour. Apparently the way that they dyed this colour has changed since last summer because it is noticeably off even for being different dye lots. The new ball had to be used for a small portion of the tail and then for attaching everything to the body. Fortunately you can't really see the difference in colour in the pictures buts its on the outer edge of the circle that are his ears.

This is the finished result... meet Herbert

Notice his lip ring which is a safety pin! I can not take credit for that clever little bit that was the pattern designer but it's such a good idea! 

                                    

It's all in the details: his tattoo. Made from the same yarn colour as his jacket.

Cute little boots almost like Docs! We match! The yarn used for the boots is the same as used for his mohawk. I love this yarn its one of my favourites its by Patons Classic Wool the colour flecks against the black always just make me stare at it for hours. The shoelace yarn is the same as the jean jacket and tattoo.

Fortunately was able to use a lot of scrap yarn (that was also Patons Classic Wool) for parts of this project that I had left over from previous projects. 

I love the result of the monkey and I think it can be said that this is one of the harder things that I have done to date. 

Do you have any knitting projects on the go?

Happy Creating!

Jessica