Meet Fangy my latest stuff toy in the making. I plan to release him for sale by
Thursday 7th September and of cause he will be customisable so do stay tuned. But for now kick up your feet and learn about his fun creation.
I knew I needed one more halloween themed item to do, before moving onto christmas. Originally I planned to do a cute pumpkin, how doesn't love a pumpkin, but theres a string element that just made it to difficult to pass safety test, so back in the boardroom of my brain, i went hunting and I found fangy.
He was perfect, i had just got the new safety requirement for my fluffiest yarn that I knew would be perfect for him, I also already had safety eye in the perfect size so it was coming together great....
Yeap I spoke to soon. No sooner had i started fangy (a basic magic ring) had I
realised why I had stopped using this type of yarn.. Breakagges. So the thicker yarns are a nightmare for getting magic circle shut, because you just break the yarn trying to do it. You can do a chain 2 start for this yarn, which a lot of people do, but I'm awful at this start. With little other choice I did this start and low and behold a hole in his head. I can't seem to ever get Ch 2 start tight. So this has me thinking, how am i even going to sew the pieces together this yarn isn't going to hold the 7.2kg in safety testing if i snap it just pulling on it. Time to check in with my Safety testing group.
Once again they come to my rescue (I really do advise all toy makers to pop over to them you can read about them in my UKCA blog) While a couple had success with using the yarn to sew the attachment, the more common answer is to use another compliant yarn in the same colour and sew with that. Luckily I have all the stuff i need thanks to Scout. With this information, I remember a lot of people
in my Amigurimi group saying, they use a thinner yarn, the same colour as thick yarn to create the magic circle then pull both yarns to tighten and boom, nice magic circle.
I was on a roll. I had figured out my start and my attachment the rest was easy.
Fangy is made up in 3 parts. The first is the head and body, it is your basic increases and decrease all in one part, The instructions are very clear where to put the eyes and when to stuff it was great.
Next came the ears. This is a bit harder, while simple components getting it right can be hard. The ears are design to have a fatter side , which is where you put your increases. Hence to more difficult, however the instruction were amazing and as long as you take it slow I had no issues.
Finally the wings. Save the hardest to last right. The wings are worked in rows (something I don't do often and therefore not greatest at reading) I will say this was the trickiest part, now I could be reading it wrong and other will say it very self explanatory but for me it took several failed attempts before i finally understood what was meant. Your increasing the wing in a way to make it a triangle so It's very important your put the increases in the right part, but you also want a wing design so they need to curve the right way to. Yes bit difficult. Finally with the wings (the part i found really easy but others might struggle at) is you do Sc and Dc and SlSt in set amounts in set stitches to create the wing shape at the bottom this was the fun part by far.
After all this it came time to attaching the parts. once again the pattern was very
clear and made attaching it a breeze, esp as i was using normal yarn. I then added the nose and some whites to the eyes and bang, Fangy was done. He took a few days to complete but now I know what I'm doing he is a fairly quick make.
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