bethama:

feltpool:

So yeah, Caliban.

I’m a sucker for a supporting character.

He’s definitely my most ambitious knitted action figure so far. 

He has an internal armature to make him poseable (after I got to play with @knitpool‘s Guy I had to give that a go for myself), a full set of clothes right down to socks and underpants and my first attempts at non-knitted shoes (not bad but can be improved on), and hat making.  White on white stitching is hard to see but he has body hair and eyebrows but, much as @bethama tried to encourage me, I stopped short of knitting individual fingers and having to sew teeny tiny little gloves.  It’s not that I couldn’t do it, I just really didn’t want to!*

He’s mostly made from stash items, the only things I bought specifically for him were the armature and stuff for his hat.  (Ever since I made Dracula I wondered what I’d do with the remaining 95% of the skein of white wool I’d bought to make his hair.)

Least fun part? Measuring, measuring and measuring again and getting ridiculously stressed over whether or not clothes were actually going to fit him.

Most fun part? The poncho, because that’s when he really started to look like Caliban.

* It’s hard enough to get a tiny hand in a tiny mitten, wrestling teeny fingers into teeny glove fingers is waaaaaay more effort than it’s worth.

Excuse me for encouraging people to reach for the stars and realize their artistic potential, geez.

Ooh! Love.