Mimicking my grandmother's toy-making style
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 9:48 pm
When I was a youngster, I drew a picture of a deliberately non-standard lemming, named simply Lemming, and I asked my grandmother to knit him for me (I gave him a brief mention near to the start of my Lemmings plushes thread). Several others in the same style followed, with different outfits and (also sometimes) hair colours, but Lemming is the only one who I still have, now.
Now, I cannot knit (try as I might, I just can't pick it up), but I set myself a little challenge to see how closely I could replicate the style in which my grandmother knitted toys, but in my own preferred form of needlecraft. I decided, for this challenge, to make one more lemming of Lemming's type, as a companion for him. This is the result;
She was made in around a day in total, as a quick break from a more complex project that I'm also working on at the moment, and is 100% hand-sewn. I'm very pleased with how she's turned out, and I think I managed to stick pretty closely to the intended style.
Now, I cannot knit (try as I might, I just can't pick it up), but I set myself a little challenge to see how closely I could replicate the style in which my grandmother knitted toys, but in my own preferred form of needlecraft. I decided, for this challenge, to make one more lemming of Lemming's type, as a companion for him. This is the result;
She was made in around a day in total, as a quick break from a more complex project that I'm also working on at the moment, and is 100% hand-sewn. I'm very pleased with how she's turned out, and I think I managed to stick pretty closely to the intended style.
