A few days ago I started working on knitting an amigurumi that a friend commissioned me, this commission has taken me quite a few days of work, that's why when I saw the invitation from the #NeedleWorkMonday community for the Challenge to show the advancement of a job and then the following Monday to show the final result, I was very excited to show my progress and participate, also the community colleagues encouraged me to dare to publish an unfinished process for the first time.
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My friend ordered this amigurumi from me a few months ago, but for reasons of quarantine, in addition to the fact that I live in a very small city, I had not yet been able to get the materials I needed, rather the correct color thread, because the character wears the clothes turquoise blue, as many people linked to art and crafts may have realized the color blue is one of the colors with more existing shades, so any blue would not resemble the character at all, so I decided to wait to get the thread of the correct color to be able to begin the work.
Hilos azules que tengo / Blue threads that I have
Hilo azul turquesa que compré / Turquoise blue thread that I bought
When I finally had everything ready to start and in my mind I was already trying to get an idea of the stitches that I would do for each part of the amigurumi, I decided to tell my friend that I already had everything to start, I asked him about another color that could not be appreciated Well in the reference images, he answered me and ended up telling me something that disturbed me for a moment, he said, Do you know that the shoes are high heels? To which I responded with amazement What? Well, I did not know that the shoes were that way, in fact we both like it and we are a fan of this artist, I was surprised not to have noticed that detail, so my friend tells me that the shoes are completely seen in one small part of the music video that was reissued in 2016, that is to say that in the original video they are not seen so much, also I think not everyone could have realized that detail, then he sends me some screenshots of said video And it was true, the shoes were not only in two colors as I already knew but they also had heels and it was not just any type of heel, it was a wooden platform heel, I almost panicked when I saw that detail.
Fuente
Por razones de transparencia con Hive coloco el enlace de referencia a donde saqué la captura de imagen, pero por favor mantengan la sorpresa y no rebelen el personaje antes de tiempo jeje.
For reasons of transparency with Hive I place the reference link to where I took the image capture, but please keep the surprise and do not rebel the character before time hehe.
My friend showed too much interest in those shoes, you could almost say that it is his favorite part of the artist's outfit in that video, so I immediately understood that I could not ignore that detail. So I started to think ...
The immediate complication I thought was that the amigurumi had to be articulated like the previous ones, that is, with a malleable wire structure inside that would allow it to stand upright and move its limbs, the most common way to make this type of structure is to create with the wire a spiral base that will go inside the foot of the amigurumi in the shape of a plant, that is to say that the idea of making a heel would make it a spiral base could not be made therefore the amigurumi would not stand upright.
I remembered that on one occasion I wove high-heeled shoes, but I did this for Miss Spider's amigurumi, for these shoes the process was to start knitting from the tip of the foot, creating a kind of cone, which I continued to knit in a curved way until wear at ankle height, then apart I wove the heel and joined by weaving it in a parallel way to later create the ankle, then when I inserted the wire from the spider's leg it was important that the end of the shoe was a thin heel, because having 8 legs the spider would remain standing, but in the case of the amigurumi that I had just been commissioned it would only be two legs, so I was afraid that the heel would not be wide enough to create a wire base that would resist the weight of the balanced doll.
Proceso de tejido de zapato con tacón para Miss Spider / Heeled shoe weaving process for Miss Spider
Miss Spider con sus seis zapatos / Miss Spider with her six shoes
I decided to make the shoes in a bigger way, that is, a little disproportionate but no less beautiful, since the shoe is bigger, the platform heel would therefore be wider, so I could make a small spiral base with the wire that I would do balance with the front part of the shoe that is also platform but smaller.
I proceeded as follows, first on 4 base chains of black color, I knit in a circular way, increasing at the sides and then knitting straight until I get to the tip of the shoe, then I changed to white thread and continued knitting creating an upward curve, to I wove this increase to half the stitches and to the other half I made decreases, the total number of stitches does not decrease but the fabric is curved until the desired length is obtained.
With brown thread I wove the heel, I did this by creating the base in a flat way, then I wove in a circular way in a vertical direction until I obtained the desired height for the heel. Then I knit the heel of the front part that was also platform but lower, I started with brown thread making the base exactly the same as the previous one, I changed to black thread and to create the white line I made two consecutive rows of slipped stitches with thread White.
I sewed the first part of the shoe to the back heel, then I sewed the front part of the platform sole, this part was filled a little before closing completely. Then with black thread I raised stitches in a circular way and knitted making some decreases to create the ankle. The shoes were ready, so I proceeded to test the wire frame to see that it would hold up.
The wire worked and everything seemed fine, until I thought that I could not continue the knitting of the leg from the ankle of the shoe, because the character wears flared panties that cover a part of the shoe, so I had to make the pants first to to be able to join them to footwear.
With the turquoise blue thread I wove 21 chains which I closed in the shape of a circle, on this I began to knit the trouser boot from the bottom up in a flared way, when I obtained the distance parallel to the ankle, I wove only the front side of the stitches To leave the threads inside that would allow me to sew the shoe, I continued knitting until I got the length of the leg, I knitted two equal trouser boots, I joined them together leaving a distance of 3 chains, I knitted from the crotch to the top until reaching the waist, that way the pants were complete.
To join the pants with the shoes, first I slid the wire structure inside the pants, then I inserted the shoe making sure that the base was well on the sole of the back heel, I filled the shoe with fiber, I turned up the the boot of the pants until meeting the line created by the back side of the points left in suspense when I made the boot of the pants, with the shoe thread I sewed the boot and in this way when turning again the leg would be left as I wished. Finally I proceeded to fill in the legs, I was very happy to see that he was standing and everything looked as it should be.
I would like to keep the revelation or surprise to close the contest the following Monday, that is why I do not show the full reference images, but if you dare to guess who the character is about, I invite you to leave the comment, the process continues and I wait To be able to make as many details as possible so that the amigurumi conserves the essence of the character, I leave you as a clue that he was a very famous singer, whom I admire a lot and in a video he used platform shoes and a turquoise wardrobe. Thank you very much for coming here and reading me, see you next Monday with the final result.
Imágenes tomadas con cámara Casio QV-R100 y editadas en Adobe Photoshop Cs6
Images taken with Casio QV-R100 camera and edited in Adobe Photoshop Cs6
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