#Needleworkmonday:: Captain America Crochet Knitted

History of Captain America

Captain America is a fictitious superhero who was designed as a

supersoldier from the USA

and wears a suit that represents the flag of the United States and uses an almost indestructible shield that he throws as a projectile.

Captain America was created in 1941 during World War II as a supersoldier of the United States; his real name is Steven Grant Rogers, who was a young man belonging to a poor family, his father died when he was a child and his mother during his adolescence. Rogers tried to enlist in the army, but because his body was weak he was rejected. Hearing his plea for acceptance, U.S. Army General Chester Phillips offered Rogers the opportunity to take part in a special experiment called the

Renaissance Project where Professor Reinstein administered Rogers the supersoldier serum,

which gave Rogers a perfect body with strength, agility, endurance, and maximum intelligence. Professor Reinstein was then assassinated before transcribing the supersoldier formula, with Rogers being the sole beneficiary of his serum.

During the war Captain America was a symbol of liberation and justice.

During the last days of the war he tried to stop an airplane loaded with bomb which exploded killing his companion Bucky and the Captain America fell in the icy arctic waters; thanks to the formula of supersoldier he did not die and remained in state of suspended animation; decades later he was rescued by the Avengers and was part of this team of superheroes.

Elaboration of the Captain America Woven to Crochet

Materials

Crochet thread (red, blue, white, yellow, black and Skin)

Needle (1.45mm or 3)

Scissors

Crochet sewing needle

Wadding

Elaboration of Captain America step by step

assembly of the woven parts

details of the face and Helmet

detalles cara y casco.jpg

Shield

Elaboration Time

The project started a month and a half ago, on 25/03/2019, where the idea, shown in the publication, was planned and developed:

Amigurumi Collection of Superheroes and Princesses

The trip from Venezuela to Colombia was made to buy the crochet threads, the trip was quite an adventure, as the border has been closed for months and the passage is through the so-called trails or green roads, where you have to pay commission to pass, and thus cross a river on bags, climbs and descents full of mud. It was a round trip that lasted 42 hours of pure adrenaline, between the hours sitting on the bus and the quick shopping, with wet feet after crossing the river. Anyway after all that crossing I arrived to my country with all my threads to begin this great project.

hilo en casa y comprado.jpg

And so we can see that I already have all the threads estimated for the project

cantidad de hilo crochet a comprar.jpg

Elaboration of two previous models and sketch of the pattern: before making the final model two previous models were made, the first captain America I did spontaneously (ie without any pattern, I was only molding as I knitted) with the aim of doing and observing how to incorporate as much detail as possible, the second model accounted for the points and corrected details of the first as: the thickness of the arms and make it less waist. Finished the second design, it had not been as I wanted, it was very long, so I removed turns to the second pattern to make it less long, thus achieving the Captain America woven as I wanted, the third was the ideal and already with the pattern established, only 3 days late weaving the third model. All this process took 3 weeks, then shows the images of the sketch of the pattern, which shows the pattern of the second model and highlights the rows eliminated to reach the third model.

Digitization of the pattern: once the definitive model was made, we began to digitize the patterns, first I began with Word, where I digitized three patterns: that of the footbed, the boot of the feet and the legs, then I observed by the pattern design scheme, that it was more viable to work it in Excel and I made the design of the body and the arm in Excel, then the design of the head and the helmet for being circular I decided to work it with the mathematical program Geogebra, thus obtaining the digitization of the patterns as shown below:

Reason for Elaboration

As I mentioned in the first publication, there are 3 reasons for the production:

Publish the step by step in steemit.

Perform superheroes to give away to my 6 year old son.

Make superheroes for sale and thus have an additional income that allows me to cope with the economic crisis that is currently living in my country Venezuela.

How did I feel while working on this project?

Spectacular, especially when in the third attempt I achieve what I wanted, 2 previous designs were made before reaching the final pattern. It was something to which I devoted enough time with pleasure and enthusiasm because I wanted something really beautiful and eye-catching, to please both my followers of steemit, as my son and also a quality product for sale. I consider that I met the goal I had set myself, it took me a month and a half to complete the first design of the project but it was worth the time devoted to it. It was something I enjoyed and I also felt very satisfied and happy to design and develop the Captain America crochet knitted to my liking, with as many details as possible and creating my own pattern, which would facilitate the development to others.

Note

The photo taken by the author Hive account@fabianaporteles on a cell phone and edited in: Microsoft Office Picture Manager, Paint and the FotoCollage application https://es.pixiz.com/?q=collage