GourmetAmigurumi

Whew, that last post was exhausting!  But despite being all riled up,  I have been able to get some work done that I am very excited about…I spent God knows how many hours last weekend redesigning my doll’s feet.  I finished adding the trimmings last night (for one of the feet at least!)  Here are the before and after pics.

The larger one is the new foot.  I have been struggling with adding the details the shoes need.  Since the level of detail throughout the rest of the doll has increased the shoes have needed improvement badly.  They were starting to look as though I forgot to finish them. You will remember the sneakers and the cowboy boots, which I feel were a step in the right direction.  I finally came to the conclusion that the biggest problem was the shape of the foot itself.  There just wasn’t enough length from the toe to the ankle to add much detail.  So I redid the foot to  be much longer and the ankle much thinner.  Really, I have known this for a while.  It just took me a long time to suck it up and take the time to design a new foot.  And it did take loads of time to redo.  The problem with crocheting a spiral is, well, the spiral.  This is fine most if the time, but went you want a piece to be square, like the toe of the foot, you have to offset the spiral by changing the placement of the increases and decreases.  That was the hard part.  I don’t know how many times I frogged the foot.  I think I forgot on purpose so I wouldn’t feel ridiculous     I want to be able to repeat the details of the sneakers and cowboy boots.  I don’t think this is going to be too much trouble.  I will just have to change the proportions a bit.