My housemates and I marathoned the Lord of the Rings movies one day, and it was a little late at night and there was quite a bit of wine and one thing led to another led to me seeing a fell beast and announcing that I could probably knit that. (It was the holes in the wings that did it. They looked like yarn-overs.)

I used Hansi Singh’s Loch Ness monster pattern for the body (which is fabulous and so well-written and I’m looking forward to making an actual entire Loch Ness monster).

Theoretically, I’m using the wings from Barbara Prime’s bat pattern (also supercute and I can’t wait to knit it in its proper entirety), as soon as I can figure out how to double them in size. My math has been weak lately, so this is in hibernation until I feel like fiddling with it again.

I’m not sure yet what I’m doing for the legs.

4/20/09

I’ve mathed out the wings and nearly finished one.

9/16/09

Finally took this out of hibernation and, after repeated froggings, managed to get the left wing right. I’m half-done with it right now

9/19/09

Wings: on! He’s currently actually really aerodynamic, though that’s going to change as soon as I figure out how to do the legs.