If you'll notice, Frosty has arms and legs, as well as a severely disproportionate lower ball, compared to the basically symmetrical snowman I had previously created. Nevermind the broomstick, corncob pipe and the button nose! Okay, I'm singing the song now.
What it has come down to is that I am going to have to write my own pattern! So, maybe when I'm done, I'll post what I've written, but it's nothing big. For the body, anyway. I'm really excited about my idea for the hat.
I plan on using Paton's black wool, so I can felt the hat. The big thing about Frosty was when you take off his hat, he is no longer alive. I wanted to represent that some way in my Frosty. My idea was to put one of those Build-A-Bear recording boxes in the hat. Hopefully I'd be able to record the original movie saying "Happy birthday" which is the first thing he says when the hat is put on him. Then I planned on letting the felted hat dry around the recording box - which will hopefully be the correct size? I will need to take a trip down to Build A Bear. Anyway, I was thinking of wrapping it in Ceran Wrap, as the felted wool will be wet, and electronics + wet = bad. I was then going to put velcro on the bottom. I was toying with the idea of putting another black strip over it so that you couldn't see the box, and it would hold everything, but you would lose accessibility.
Anyway, on the top of the head is obviously where the velcro would stick. Currently that is where the hole for stuffing is located. I'm really not interested in ruining the delicate knitting on top, so I was thinking of sewing the hole with a patch of white felted wool. That way the velcro would ruin the felted part, and it would probably stick better. I'm still not sure yet.
Here's what I've started knitting so far:
Ah, I'm pretty excited. Although I still have Christmas gifts to work on for family I'm seeing tomorrow. Gah, oops.
