NeedleWorkMonday Donde se nos invita a conmemorar esta importante fecha elaborando un trabajo de aguja siguiendo nuestra inspiración y estilo personal porque cada mente es un universo de ideas y las manos de las mujeres artesanas que hacemos vida en esta comunidad crean cosas únicas.
Greetings, this is my participation in the Women's Day Challenge of the community NeedleWorkMonday invites us to commemorate this important date by developing needlework following our inspiration and personal style because each mind It is a universe of ideas and the hands of the artisan women who make life in this community create unique things.
For this occasion I made an amigurumi of a girl, but not just any girl, but a super warrior girl, modern, aware of her importance as a woman, with pink hair, I wanted to dress her with comfortable clothes, shorts, sports shoes, and a jacket with the message: "Woman be strong" because I feel that is what I want to say to all women on this date.
In my country the fight for women's rights is somewhat slow, there are many things that are happening right now that violate the rights of working women and mothers of families, young women are also vulnerable to many dangers such as crime and harassment. I do not want to start my publication with sad news, but last month two young women were found dead and with signs of rape in a state neighboring mine, this made me think about how little confidence we Venezuelans have that justice is done. That atrocious case, that's why my amigurumi today looks like a young woman who is just beginning adult life with the important message of being strong on her back, because for a young woman from my country there is no other way to face daily events but being strong.
Proceso / Process
I started by making a wire frame so that the figure would stand up, I used wire called an arm straw cleaner so that his arms were easy to articulate and place in the position that the person wanted.
I started by first knitting the legs with beige yarn and # 4 crochet hook (1.25mm), starting with 5 chains and knitting single crochets and increases over them until I got an oval for the sole of the foot, then I knit a round of single crochets taking The stitches only on the back side, then I knit straight I have made decreases to achieve the shape of the ankle. To make this amigurumi look like a woman and not like a girl, I tried to make the curves of the legs, doing increases for the calves, decreases for the knees and increases for the thighs, in this way the leg looks like an adult leg. I made two equal legs and stuffed them with fiber.
For the trunk, knitting 3 chains of distance between one leg and the other, I joined both legs by knitting single crochets, I continued the knitting making increases to form the buttocks and then decreases to form the waist, I continued to knit straight and did increases to widen the chest, I left the weaving on hold to make the arms. I filled with fiber.
To knit the hand I knitted the fingers one by one knitting 4 single crochets in a ring and then a round of 4 single crochets, for the little finger and thumb I only knit the 4 stitches in a ring, the thumb was joined after having joined the Other fingers through a round of single crochets so that it was located higher, I knit decreases to form the wrist of the arm and knit straight until reaching the height of the shoulder. I wove two equal arms, filled with fiber only the hand of the figure and the arms were inserted into the pink wire. Join the arms to the trunk by knitting single crochets and making decreases to form the shoulders and then the neck.
To make the shorts I used blue yarn and # 4 crochet hook, in the next round I knitted two single crochets, a chain and skipped a stitch to form the holes through which the short cord would pass, knit straight up to the crotch, divide in two equal parts and made two rounds of single crochets on each side to form the hole where the legs go in. Then with white thread I wove 46 chains and on these I wove 46 slip stitches to form the cord, I passed the cord through the holes of the shorts and closed it by inserting two blue plastic beads.
For the blouse I knitted two triangles for the neckline and a trapezoid for the back, joined the front parts and joined the back part 3 chains apart. I worked a few rounds of single crochets and then did 4 rounds of fan stitches. To finish, I knit the armholes and straps of the blouse with chains and single crochets.
For the shoes I started knitting 6 chains and on these I knitted single crochets and increases to form an oval with beige thread, I changed to white thread and taking only the back side of the stitches I made a round of slip stitches and a round of single crochets, then change to purple yarn I knit straight and then I made decreases in the front of the shoe, I left the central stitches in suspense and I knit the others making decreases to the edges of each round until reaching ankle height. I took up the central stitches with white yarn and knitted straight until I got the shoe tongue. Then I did the braiding with blue yarn.
For the head with beige yarn I knitted 6 single crochets in a ring, then I knitted six increases in each round until I got 36 stitches, I knitted straight for 8 rounds and then I made six decreases per round until I got 12 stitches filled with fiber and joined the neck. I wove the ears on both sides of the head.
For the hair with pink yarn, I proceeded in a similar way to the head by knitting a circle but in the last round I made two additional increases, knitting straight to the desired height, knitting the bangs by making chains and knitting single crochets over these. For the hair of the ponytail I wove chains and on these I wove increases and single crochets to form the curls, I made six curls of different length, I sewed them on one side of the head and with fuchsia thread I wove the ponytail and a small bow.
I embroidered the eyes with black, green and white thread and sewing needle, the mouth was embroidered with pink and black thread, I embroidered the nose with beige crochet thread and in the ears I sewed two blue plastic beads.
The jacket was knitted with two needles # 2 (2mm) thin white and fuchsia thread for the motif. I started by making a chart to make the motif on graph paper. Then I made 19 stitches on the needle plus 2 additional stitches for the edge stitches, I knitted 4 rounds, then I divided the fabric with some pink threads to mark 4 reference points that would help me to differentiate the stitches from the front part, the sleeves and the back of the jacket. The first two and the last two stitches of each round I knitted with knit stitches, while the body of the jacket I knitted in stockinette stitch, on each round I knitted increases before and after each of the stitches marked until obtaining the desired width, the motif stitches start in the fifth round and are made according to the graph. Once the desired width was obtained, with some metal pins I divided the stitches on the sleeves and removed them from the needles, I continued knitting the stitches on the front and back until the motif was finished, I made six decreases and knitted four rounds in stitches rights to make the final edge I closed the stitches to the right.
I took up the stitches on the sleeves and knitted in stockinette stitch making decreases at equidistant distances until I obtained the desired width and length for the sleeve and closed with four rounds of knit stitches. I did the same with the other sleeve. With the excess thread I sewed the inside edge of each sleeve. I washed and ironed the jacket so that the thread would take its place.
Resultado / Result
This is one of the projects that I have most enjoyed doing because of all the internal work that caused me to think about Women's Day, to think how I could make my manual work reflect the effort to highlight the importance of women in the world, I think it is important for women to take care of ourselves, in unity there is strength and together we must fight for a more just world. Women Let's be strong!
Si llegaste a esta publicación de casualidad y te gusta hacer labores de aguja te invito a unirte a esta hermosa comunidad.
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Imágenes tomadas con cámara Casio QV-R100 y editadas en Adobe Photoshop Cs6. Gif creado en giphy.com
Images taken with Casio QV-R100 camera and edited in Adobe Photoshop Cs6. Gif created in giphy.com
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