I made a bunch of Easter eggs, and then I realized that if I didn't finish an egg but made a couple more sections instead, maybe I could make a bug. Originally I thought it would be a Cootie, like in the game. So I made this:
Now, I'm not quite sure it's done. Lucas thinks the back legs are a little anatomically strange and should be moved to the middle section. I'm inclined to agree, but then how would the bug drag its giant end around? He thinks that having all the legs together would make it more closely resemble the structure of a real ant, which is what he thinks it most likely is. However, I think his view of knitted bugs might be overly scientific.
The other question is whether to make wings. This would make the bug not an ant, but something else. I mean, there are flying ants, but I don't think I want it to be a flying ant, because those are kind of gross. But wings are cool, and it would probably be fun to knit some wings if I could find the right yarn.
What do you think about the leg placement and wings/no wings?
P.S. This is going off the deep end a bit, but here's another example of the egg pattern's usefulness. I made a hat for my egg timer:
April 17
Bug #2 -- Lucas made the legs. I'm not sure this one is done. He probably needs a face, but I'm not sure how I'm going to do that. The face makes a huge difference in the creature's character.
I have another bug body made, but I'm not sure what I want to do about the legs for that one.
Today I finished a bird. Shannon sent the link to this pattern:
http://berroco.com/exclusives/blueb
I think that bird is so cute, so I tried it, but the pattern confused me. So last night while we were watching the new Bond movie I just tried to freeform it, purposely not looking at the picture again. I used the good old Easter Egg pattern and then modified as I went along. I think the beak on mine is too long, making him look like a duck. I also put the tail on sideways. But I like him anyway:
