January 10, 2021

All the goat parts have been knitted (minus the pouch to contain the innards), now the body parts are being blocked to hopefully make it easier to sew up. I did say when I made this 5 years ago, that it was fiddly to make, and now I’m making it fiddlier by making it smaller .

January 24, 2021

Body has taken a while to finish sewing up cos returning to work after a couple of weeks off felt like nothing actually stopped. Also, my eyeballs are getting old and I need to both look over my glasses and move things to get them in range of looking at tiny things a bit more, especially when I’m tired.

Picked up stitches around the neck (20 stitches in total), so it looked like purl bumps once I started knitting in the round to make the innards pouch. Kind of hoping it’ll make the pouch fold at this line ok but not be too obvious.

January 25, 2021

OK, because the goat is smaller than the earlier goat, I have had to tack down the pouch so it stays inside the body, which meant that I had to think through how best to keep the resetting mechanism from being lost to the insides and hard to get back out. I put a knot a little way down the end string so it wouldn’t go the whole way in, and it seems to work really well. I actually tested it on the chicken first, cos that was the one where I ran across the issue of the potentially disappearing end. I used the end of the yarn that was from the pulling together of the pouch to tack on the goat’s tail, so you can hang onto the tail to help with steadying things while resetting the decapitation mechanism.

All of that above was way too much rambling about a goat, whose head can be detached, and then reset to look somewhat like a regular goat.