My very favorite of all of the characters he's created is Sam the Dragon. Sam was born in 1984 as a way to entertain The Hubbs' little sister, Jello, and he's been drifting in and out of The Hubbs' life ever since. We are now working as a team to put Sam out there for the whole world to see, and I'm working on a new blog featuring Sam a few times a week.
Naturally, with Sam on the brain, he's managed to seep into my crochet as well. Here are some (okay, way too many, but I can never choose) pics of the prototype.
I'm ridiculously proud of his fingers, toes and elbows. They all turned out better than I had hoped, and all on the first try!
Some slight modifications are needed before I'm totally happy with the final product, but this little guy should do nicely as a fourth birthday present for Jello's little girl, K-Bear. K recently found a book of Sam strips that The Hubbs published about five years ago, and she's been running around the house pretending to be Sam ever since. Thanks to the wonders of the All-Knowing Internet, this post should be appearing on my blog as we are still at her party. Here's hoping Sam and K-Bear will be very happy together.
And if he ever gets lonely, he can always hang with the Totoro I made for her birthday last year. :)
He is very happy here. The night of her party K came running in our room and asked me if she could sleep with Sam (who was still downstairs with the other gifts.) He's been in her bed ever since :)
ReplyDeleteAww, I'm so glad to hear that! We sure do love that little girl. :)
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