I'm sure everyone thinks that I am a liar as I said that I never finish anything and here I am, posting my second finished project. But perhaps that just means that having this blog is encouraging me as I hoped it would.
Anyway, I am happy to say that my latch hook kitty cat is finished! I’m quite pleased with how quickly this project went together, less than two weeks from start to finish. I really wanted to get it done before I head off on a long vacation and thankfully all went smoothly. Assembly was tricky, and I did a few things wrong, but I learned quite a bit doing it, had fun, and am pretty happy with the result.
The project is a M.C.G Textiles latch hook Huggables kit called Pretty Kitty. It's on 3.75 mesh canvas and the kit included everything except the latch hook tool, the stuffing, and the thread for the whiskers. And unlike other kits I've recently been frustrated with, this one had more than enough of everything I needed. I could have used a tiny bit more white assembly yarn, but it really doesn't detract from the finished project.
Here's what I started with today.
Here's a look at some of the seam work. I wish I had taken a picture when I was putting the feet together as it would have probably turned out better. Most of the pieces are stitched up with the right sides together and using a back stitch. The example below is one side of the body being attached to the tummy. For most of the smaller pieces that meant stitching up three sides then turning it right side out to stitch up the last side with a ladder stitch, which was used for those places where you had to stitch with the right sides facing out.
It was pretty hard to get everything to line up right. I had to redo at least four entire sections while working today. It was frustrating, and I figured out that I had done a few things wrong that were too late to fix, but that hopefully I can hide and no one else will notice (I did some of the seams on the wrong square so that you can sorta see the mesh at the seams if I don't hide it right). But after fighting with it all evening and stuffing it to the brim I had a completed kitty!
I am NOT happy with the nose, but I really don't want to redo it, so it's going to just have to stay that way. It's kinda off center and I'm not completely sure what I should have done differently, but I am just going to chalk it up to being overly critical and try to ignore it.
The kitty is about 12 inches long, but I do wish they had given it a longer tail.
Despite all the little problems with it (that I'm not even sure you can see in these pictures thankfully) I'm happy with it. I'm not sure I'd be happy enough with it to give it to someone, but I am confident that if I do another stuffed animal (and there are a bunch more in this set) that it will be much better.
The instructions for this kit were pretty good, although I am almost certain that there was at least one mistake. At least there was something that I deemed impossible to do as directed and moved the point that should match up and it worked. Some of the numbered points that you are supposed to match up during assembly are a little unclear, but I could follow along for the most part. I am really happy that I stuffed up the legs before I attached the head though, as I'm not sure that the gap left for stuffing would have allowed me to really maneuver the stuffing into its proper place.
In case anyone was curious, I randomly decided to make all of my blog post titles excited titles (be warned that following the link may leave you lost on tv tropes for the rest of the day). And today's title is a reference to this:
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