More Frosty

So I've made a little bit of progress on my Frosty!


This is the body, stuffed, with one leg sewn on. I kind of shoved the leg in there, and the needle is kind of dangling, too.

This is the top of stuffed Frosty!



This is the wool patch I plan on felting and sewing up the stuffing hole with. It doesn't matter that it's a different color and texture, because it will be covered by the hat. It is so I don't have to sew the stupid hole shut, and so that the velcro has something to stick to without ruining my beautiful knitting. Ruin the felt!
Here are some of my supplies. Black velcro to go on the bottom of the hat. Then, the round thing is one of those Record your own Sounds from Build-A-Bear. My sister's boyfriend so kindly picked one up for me today.
I told her boyfriend I'd repay him, so I don't know if you can see, but he changed the $8.00 to $8,000,000. He's hilarious....

Anyway, I still need to knit another leg and foot, and I haven't really even begun thinking about the arms! Agh. At least it will be like knitting mittens with long tubes, haha! I'll probably have to move off the size 11 needles to work on the detail of mittens, but ugh, whatever.

I also need to knit the hat, and the strip for underneath, then felt everything - so far the hat, under-hat-strip, and white patch need felting, I think.

Oh yes, and I need to work on the broom and pipe, but I think I need wire for those things. I plan on shaping the wire and wrapping the yarn around it in some way. Maybe felting it? Probably. I have brown wool. That could be both the broom and pipe, but maybe some orange/hay color for the broom. Bah bah I don't know. Michelle was helping me decide proportions and size and how to shape things and sew things, which was helpful, and she's coming tomorrow to help me some more, haha. It should be wonderful!

Frosty the Snowman

I am currently in the process of creating a knitted Frosty for Matt. Originally, I was just going to use a Ravelry discovered pattern for a basic snowman - 2 balls, felted. Then, it was uncovered that the snowman really had to look like Frosty. For those of you who are clueless:

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.