My Granddaughter has a job as an International Art Dealer and will be travelling on Cruise Ships. I wanted to make her something so she will think of me while she is away. She loves Sloths so here we go.
23-01-2022
Just about lost my mind yesterday trying to crochet with this stuff.
I think I can finish the head but the body, arms and legs will be kit with a strand of lace weight to stabilize it. I will crochet the claws and use a folded pipe cleaner so they will curve.
I have a backpack I hope will fit him and I will make him a Bow Tie.
Good luck to me today
24-01-2022
Knitting with 4mm needles. Following the pattern except for evey row I purl back. Two rows in knitting is about the same as 1 in crochet, I think, Anyway that is what I am going. I may add dome extra rounds after row 12. Not sure, will check when I get there. For the increase I used kfb. Purl side is the hairiest.
27-01-2022
I am showing symptoms of COVID-19 this morning and my husband is in hospital on oxygen. Good thing I have something easy to knit, if I feel up to it.
Knitting the body using the purl side as the front.
For every crochet row I count the knit and the purl as one. I added 3 more “rounds” to the body length in increased to 60 sts instead of 54. I am please with the result so far.
I have this nifty little needle brush I bought in England 40 years ago. I gently tease out any trapped hairs after each row.
07-02-2022
Working on the last leg. Haven’t done much lately as life is pretty upsetting. Carl is still in the hospital. I hope to start sewing you the arms and legs today. The head is finished, just have to embroider the mouth.
07-02-2022
Working on the fingers and toes, I am crocheting them and using pipe cleaners to stuff them so I can curve them.
Once the last of the pieces are done I can start assembling and hope it all worked out. I made some major changes to the stitch/row counts
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