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[gabri_jade]

Does anyone happen to know where I could find a pattern to make Padmé's snoods/bun covers for the yellow Naboo picnic dress? Preferably knit, though I know it's more likely to be a crochet pattern. I found a couple of websites that sell close-enough snoods for reasonable prices and may just do that for Rachael's ComiCon (con peeps, help me out: is

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[dreamspirals78]

I'm thinking of having them custom made on Etsy since we have so much to make already. I think they need to be slightly more yellow than gold. Padme's were gold but Rachael's dress is more yellow than the real one.

[gabri_jade]

I'll e-mail you the sites I found. They might be quicker and cheaper than alchemy.

[lady_padme]

Cool! Eggplants! If you can make the eggplant from the amigurumi book, you could probably move to the piggy that I made Rachael next. I've made the loch ness monster and the sun star (yes, 12 legs!!!) I wanted to make the jellyfish, and I'd LOVE to make the praying mantis, but I need to take a deep breath before I dare to plunge into something like that. As for circular vs. dpns, I've never used dpns, so I don't know how. I use only one set of circular needles but I do a lot of pulling and stretching to get the yarn to circularize at such a small size. In some cases, when it's too small, I've just made it non-circular and then sewed up the edges, i.e. for the bottom of the eggplant, I would start off making it non-circular and then about 10-12 rows into it I would then join everything into a circle and finish knitting. Then when the body was done, I'd just sew up the bottom and usually because the bottom is puckered anyway, you really can't tell where the seam is. I like the stuff from that book because projects can be made in a short

[gabri_jade]

The Loch Ness monster is very high on my to-knit list from that book. I absolutely love her. I've joined the eggplant leaves with dpns and it's not hard, I just think it's time-consuming to have to juggle all five and reorient them after knitting each needle. I bought another size 5 circular so I can try the double-circular method when I find my purple yarn, though. (Which I absolutely know I have a full skein of, in exactly the right color. Argh.) I hesitate to veer from the pattern because I have a hard time visualizing things until I'm really familiar with the process.

You shall indeed get pictures. I'm working on another project, too; I'll try to send pictures of that asap.

[callmelydia]

What's the name of the amigurumi book? I want to start to try and make those once I'm done with my current madness of knitting baby blankets.

[gabri_jade]

Amigurumi Knits by Hansi Singh. It is awesome. LP also gave me Itty-Bitty Toys by Susan B. Anderson; while I haven't knitted anything from it yet, it has some really great patterns. LP knitted the pig doll from it for my niece, and it's adorable. I'm tempted to make a whole bunch of toys and put them away for inevitable baby showers so I can have the coolest presents. :P