When I was in the hospital post-surgery, I brought a mini-skein of Opal from my Advent calendar. It was basically my worry stone and I ended up growing quite attached to the yarn. So I decided to turn my little ball of yarn into something more “normal” to be attached to - a softie!

I’m using this pattern because I like the head shape best of the ones I’ve looked at. I’m going to knit this in the round though.

3 Apr
Okay, not enough yarn. I ripped back to 25 sts and knit straight for a tad before decreasing and starting the head. Hopefully this will give me enough yarn.

Also, why is everyone judging my snake? ‘Ew, a snake, yuck.’ Dude, it’s a tropical striped friendly snake! No nasty faces!

4 Apr
Okay, I vastly overestimated how far I needed to rip back so I’ve finished the snake and have tons of yarn leftover. So I’m doing a little surgery on my surgery snake. I snipped in the middle (where I don’t need to worry about increases or decreases) and am going to knit in all the extra yarn. And my snake gets longer too!
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Added over 6” of middle to my snake. Stuffed him with some plastic pellets and kitchenered his abdomen up. How appropriate!

He’s very adorable. I used 9mm safety eyes and oops, I put one in the wrong place. (I haven’t even taken my narcotics today so I can’t blame that!) So now he’s a little goofy eyed. Oh dear.
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Okay, more surgery was done to fix the eye and a tongue was added and now he’s all done! I love my new little friend!