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Profesor Fungi
Professor Gortabello Fungi lives behind a little round door in a shady cave made comfy by an impressive assortment of pillows, carpets, and several adorable pets.
Undergrowth University supplies the housing right on campus so that professors are less likely to wander off in the forest on the way to class. Professor Fungi’s research focuses on how tree roots communicate and share resources.
Professor Fungi is knit from the bottom up. Short rows tip the cap back a little to frame his face in the rays from the gills of his cap.
The professor uses two kinds of colourwork. On the body, textured mosaic is achieved through slipped sts and uses only 1 colour per round. The pops of colour on the cap are achieved through stranded knitting using 2 colours per round.
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Materials
•Fingering Weight Yarn
Black Sheep Dyeworks Sock Weight 4 Ply Superwash Merino & Mini Skeins (100% merino); 87 yd / 79 m per 20 g skein;
colours shown:
Yarn A Greige
Yarn B Driftwood
Yarn C Undyed
Yarn D Cinnabar
•Needles
US 1 / 2.25 mm and US 1.5 / 2.5 mm needles for knitting small circumference in the round or size needed to get gauge using smaller needles plus needles 0.25 mm larger
•Notions
yarn needle, roving /polyfill stuffing, weighted stuffing like poly pellets, dried lentils or aquarium gravel, scissors, cardboard or thin plastic (e.g., yogurt lid)
Skills Used
- working in the round
- short rows
- stranded colourwork
- i-cord
- 3-needle bind-off
- slipping sts
- kfb
- kfb-M
- M1L
- M1R
- k2tog
- ssk
Appx. Yardage
(with a 15% buffer)
Yarn A - 78 yd. / 72 m (18 g)
Yarn B - 26 yd. / 24 m (6 g)
Yarn C - 26 yd. / 24 m (6 g)
Yarn D - 70 yd. / 64 m (16 g)
