I'm quite excited about the lion project just now. The current status is that after some fiddling about making it look right I've settled on a pattern I like - it's nice and simple, but I think it keeps enough of the shape to we quite recognisable.
These pictures are from when I was designing the head - the top picture is my first attempt, which I decided was a bit too pointy and snout-like, the second is the one I settled on - it's a little shorter and has a bit more of a round muzzle. In these pictures they're both held together with dpns awaiting stuffing, and of course, the all-important mane. I've done a little of this now, and am very happy with how it's turning out. I decided to tie the threads on the inside, this seemed the quickest way to do this. I nifty side effect is that since the lengths or the threads are only done roughly, once it's all put together I'll need to give it a hair cut :o) That should make it possible to make the different lions quite varied too, so they're not all identical.
More pictures once the first lion is finished!
Hugh.
2 comments:
are some going to be sitting down? different poses?
:)
I think sitting down would be difficult, you'd really need two joints and the legs are only ten rows long.
I was thinking I could vary the colours of the manes a bit, have different ones dominating more, and the eyes should give them slightly different expressions. If I knit the eyes I can give them different coloured pupils too.
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