Noah's Ark

Well now.  Here we are, then.  I've managed to drag this old blog out of the ether of the internet, in order to document my progression (or lack thereof) on my new project, a crocheted Noah's Ark.  As you can see, this blog was last used in 2009, and it was a project for a course I was doing in TAFE (Library Technician.  I didn't finish it because I got a job as an optical dispenser.  Go figure.).  As a result the old posts talk about stuff I was learning then and have now mostly forgotten.  Feel free to ignore those posts completely.  No doubt at some point I'll go through and delete them, but right now they make the blog look a bit more productive, so they can stay there.

Noah's Ark.  My ambitious new project.  I have plans to make numerous pairs of animals (no, I'm not going to go with the '7 pairs of clean and 1 pair of unclean'), including bears, tigers, camels, donkeys, hippos, rhinos, elephants, lions, giraffes, monkeys and others.  There will be no insects or anything smaller than a snake, so don't bother offering suggestions because I will rudely ignore them.  Originally I thought to make them as realistically as possible, but fiddling around in an attempt to make a realistic looking bear has convinced me that life is too short and I should just stick with the patterns I have.  I do want the animals to all be pretty much of a like size, around 15 - 20 cm, so may have to do some adjusting on some patterns to get that to work.  I have to adjust a few patterns to make some animals.  The pattern for the lion will also make tigers, as long as I add in stripes and leave off the mane, and I'm using a panda pattern for the bear, but making it in brown.

This project will no doubt take months, or even longer if I get bored and want to make something else in the interim.  The animals will be the easy bit.  It's the Ark itself that will be REALLY tricky.  I haven't even thought about that, but a couple of suggestions have been to make it in felt, or even make (or get made) a wooden one.  Both definite possibilities, to be thought about at a later date.

So why am I doing this?  No real reason, just because I can.  A challenge, I guess, both to my crocheting skills and to my attention span.  Actually, more to my attention span, since I've made several of these animals before, so that side of things is the easy bit.  I have a tendency to start things and not finish them (don't we all?), but this one I really want to do, and having the blog, and hopefully followers, will keep me honest.

My first animal is a bear.  I will post pictures of each animal as I go, so all things being equal I should be able to put a picture up in a day or two.