Oh Wah Ta Gee Kai Yam
Say it fast, you'll get it.
Yes, geek. Perhaps even with a capital "G" and, quite honestly, I have always been one. One of my earliest memories is sitting with my Grandpa in their small living room being whisked away to far reaches of the galaxy by watching repeats of the original Star Trek... in color. My grandparents had one of the first color TVs I ever encountered. Oh, the technicolor sensory overload! My Grandpa would sit in his pea green lounger with his feet up while I flopped down on the braided rug right in front of the TV. My Grandma would periodically pass though the room on the way to the kitchen tossing a helpful comment over her shoulder, "Shari, backup from the TV, honey. You're going to ruin your eyes." (Somehow the color TV posed more of a threat to my eyes than a black and white.) I also remember spending whole Saturday afternoons with him watching Godzilla movies, Ultraman, and Planet of the Apes on various monster matinees.
I moved on to Doctor Who (I vaguely remember a white haired gent but mainly I watched Tom Baker and Peter Davison), Space 1999, Battle Star Galatica (the original...oh, the crush I had on Star Buck...rivaled the crush I had on Shaun Cassidy), Buck Rogers, Quantum Leap, Babylon 5 (I even watched the post jumped-the-shark season 5), Andromeda (series had a bit of a focus problem but it was entertaining) and always Star Trek in all of its many incarnations. My TV fare still runs to the rather geeky but now there are whole channels that cater to my tastes so I can't be the only one watching this genre. Right? Enter the short list of channels on my personal TV remote list: History, Discovery (It's a good day when there's a Myth Busters Marathon), Sci Fi, Food (I like to cook), Travel (I like to travel.) and, thankfully, there has always been PBS. I can also always pop in some DVDs and happily watch to compare and contrast the themes between the original Star Trek, Star Trek TNG, Voyager, Enterprise and DS9. You know, themes like "man versus himself", "man versus nature", "man versus man (...or alien)", ...all the classic conflicts. (Thank you Dear Brother for the DVDs!)
Anyhow, all of the above was simply a prelude to explain why I spent my time making this for DD#1:
Yes, Doctor Who. Yes, a full sized Adipose from the first show of series 4. Yes, we have a poster. Yes, I know.
Here he is solo...
(DD#1 loves it. I think it's awfully cute too.)
and during assembly
At this point it really could have become anything. Ghost. Slug. Shmoo
(BTW: That link is to the short lived Hanna-Barbera cartoon. Makes Scooby-Doo look like classic TV. Oh, wait. Scooby-Doo is classic TV. Shmoos originated with the Al Capp's iconic satire, Li'l Abner comic strip in the 1940s.)
Hands and feet gave it some needed definition.
The details:
Craft: Crochet. It has been a while since I crocheted -- I even had to look up how to do some of the stitches. Somehow I managed to crochet the feet inside out. (?!) I just turned them right side out and went on with things.
Pattern: Amigurumi "Fat" Baby from Ravelry. (The author has to call it something other than the character's proper name "adipose" so as not to run afoul with the BBC and their copyright department.) So, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, here's an adipose from Doctor Who, Partners in Crime.
Yarn: Lion Brand Woolease - Cream. About 80% of a skein.
Hook: Size H (5 mm)
Modifications: The only modification I made was to include a bean bag in the body for better heft sowhen it is thrown across the room it has a better chance of hitting its target it sits better. Bean bag = stray kid sock stuffed with plastic pellets and sewn shut.
Just a note: Amigurumi is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small stuffed creatures with an emphasis on cuteness. There are an amazing number of books devoted to making these critters.
Yes, geek. Perhaps even with a capital "G" and, quite honestly, I have always been one. One of my earliest memories is sitting with my Grandpa in their small living room being whisked away to far reaches of the galaxy by watching repeats of the original Star Trek... in color. My grandparents had one of the first color TVs I ever encountered. Oh, the technicolor sensory overload! My Grandpa would sit in his pea green lounger with his feet up while I flopped down on the braided rug right in front of the TV. My Grandma would periodically pass though the room on the way to the kitchen tossing a helpful comment over her shoulder, "Shari, backup from the TV, honey. You're going to ruin your eyes." (Somehow the color TV posed more of a threat to my eyes than a black and white.) I also remember spending whole Saturday afternoons with him watching Godzilla movies, Ultraman, and Planet of the Apes on various monster matinees.
I moved on to Doctor Who (I vaguely remember a white haired gent but mainly I watched Tom Baker and Peter Davison), Space 1999, Battle Star Galatica (the original...oh, the crush I had on Star Buck...rivaled the crush I had on Shaun Cassidy), Buck Rogers, Quantum Leap, Babylon 5 (I even watched the post jumped-the-shark season 5), Andromeda (series had a bit of a focus problem but it was entertaining) and always Star Trek in all of its many incarnations. My TV fare still runs to the rather geeky but now there are whole channels that cater to my tastes so I can't be the only one watching this genre. Right? Enter the short list of channels on my personal TV remote list: History, Discovery (It's a good day when there's a Myth Busters Marathon), Sci Fi, Food (I like to cook), Travel (I like to travel.) and, thankfully, there has always been PBS. I can also always pop in some DVDs and happily watch to compare and contrast the themes between the original Star Trek, Star Trek TNG, Voyager, Enterprise and DS9. You know, themes like "man versus himself", "man versus nature", "man versus man (...or alien)", ...all the classic conflicts. (Thank you Dear Brother for the DVDs!)
Anyhow, all of the above was simply a prelude to explain why I spent my time making this for DD#1:
Yes, Doctor Who. Yes, a full sized Adipose from the first show of series 4. Yes, we have a poster. Yes, I know.
Here he is solo...
(DD#1 loves it. I think it's awfully cute too.)
and during assembly
At this point it really could have become anything. Ghost. Slug. Shmoo
(BTW: That link is to the short lived Hanna-Barbera cartoon. Makes Scooby-Doo look like classic TV. Oh, wait. Scooby-Doo is classic TV. Shmoos originated with the Al Capp's iconic satire, Li'l Abner comic strip in the 1940s.)
Hands and feet gave it some needed definition.
The details:
Craft: Crochet. It has been a while since I crocheted -- I even had to look up how to do some of the stitches. Somehow I managed to crochet the feet inside out. (?!) I just turned them right side out and went on with things.
Pattern: Amigurumi "Fat" Baby from Ravelry. (The author has to call it something other than the character's proper name "adipose" so as not to run afoul with the BBC and their copyright department.) So, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, here's an adipose from Doctor Who, Partners in Crime.
Yarn: Lion Brand Woolease - Cream. About 80% of a skein.
Hook: Size H (5 mm)
Modifications: The only modification I made was to include a bean bag in the body for better heft so
Just a note: Amigurumi is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small stuffed creatures with an emphasis on cuteness. There are an amazing number of books devoted to making these critters.
Okay, I'm showing my age but Shmoo was the FIRST thing I thought of!
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No, that shows cultural literacy!
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