Last weekend, during a thrilling bout of insomnia, I finished off the Sackboy that I’ve been knitting over the past month. To be fair, about three weeks of that was spent avoiding sewing all the fiddly little bits together. I could easily have finished him in a weekend if I’d been more enthusiastic.
What you can’t see is that he has a little plaited donkey tail attached to his bottom! In the game, there’s a part where you have to pin a tail on a rocking horse, and you can also stick things on each other’s characters. My sister’s Sackboy ended up with a dozen donkey tails all over him at one point! (Maybe you had to be there to see the funny side. We were practically crying with laughter at the time. There may have been wine.)
Sackboy was fiddly to make, fiddly to sew up, and fiddly to finish. Knitting chunky yarn on 4mm needles was really painful on my hands. But oh my goodness, look at him! He’s so cute! I’m thrilled to bits with how he’s come out.
I’m fairly certain that Sackboy will be pretty much destroyed by Chestnut the cat, within moments of his arrival at my sister’s house. I just wish I could be there to see the look on her face when she opens the box.