What are those cow udders?!?
Not a cow.
It is a very round ocutopus! Using the pattern Dandy Sir Cephalopod I am making this fellow for a friend who is having a baby. This of course is for the mom, not the baby.
Although I used the yarn weight that was called for in the pattern, the eyes and moustache were just too small. So I covered some buttons with with black fabric and ordered another moustache from Etsy. Now the proportions work.
He now lives up to his name, Dandy.
But he has too many details that make him unexectable for a baby. Btw, I initially used security eyes, they were too small. And althought I reinforced the back with fabric and glued them in place, it wasn’t hard to pull them out. I have sewed and glued both the eyes and the moustache, I still wouldn’t trust this with a baby.
I’m not worried, Mom is a smart woman and I have no doubt she will be thrilled to keep this one for herself.
Baby will be getting some other wonderful gift.
Leah