quickly transitioned from kfb to m1R/L

opted for just black yarn in a funky version of stranded/intarsia & stitched on green quilting cotton shaped applique over polar fleece as interfacing & hand stitched with invisible thread.

head is stuffed with polyfil around the outside & tarn/tshirt scraps in the center for a heavier bobbly head feel. neck is polyfil only, body is polyfil with woven cotton scraps.

having a little bit of experience winging something that ends up as notes which I try to reference when making again/translating to someone else, I can kind of see how this pattern came together… but line 69 for me was more like k28, m1r, k27 to get me to stitch count of 56. and then I have NO idea how a decrease round is supposed to leave me with 3 stitches More so I went with less instead & from here on out decided I just needed to decrease down his belly before beginning evenly round decreases….

also wove in ends after round 70 before decreasing those next several rounds then stuffing remainder of neck & body.

after finishing one leg I learned that my deadline was not “in a few weeks” as expected but more like “do I need to overnight this tomorrow?” & powered through the rest of the limbs without worrying about whether the directions were as streamlined or elegant as I would have preferred (I’m looking at you, thigh shaping with contrast edges… And you mittens with no thumb directions) and just followed the pattern as best I could & made up what I couldn’t make out.

which was: cut a fairly long tail for closing up the hand, anchored it within the hand stitches then picked up one stitch at the thumb gap & worked those 5 stitches one round before drawing the tail through & used it to stitch through the hand at the thumb once or twice then wrapped over the cleft to define the shape some… seemed to work, & I remember the hands being one of the hardest parts when I did my sackboy. left hands unstuffed, used polyfil in separately compacted wads to give arm sections more definition.
legs have tarn firmly stuffed in the feet & legs then polyfil at the thighs.