Remember this mysterious object? Now that it's safely in the chubby little hands of its four-month-old recipient, I can reveal its true nature, and name. Young Alby, to whom it now belongs, was asked what he wanted to call it, and his (considered, I'm sure) response was 'Ergool'. Ergool is a 12-pointed 3D star, with internal bell. The yarn used was Adriafil Knitcol, 100% washable merino wool. I love the variegated colours, especially the orange/white combination, a hue I like to think of as 'prawn'. (I'd love to be able to get whole balls just in the prawn colour.) The crochet pattern for Ergool is here. The bell was my own addition, and a bit tricky: just putting a bell into the middle of the stuffing doesn't make for a nice sound at all. Too muffled. I had to engage the engineering part of my brain to come up with the solution. First, I had to buy one of … [Read more...]
