Donkey Kong DS sock

Due to popular demand after the success of the shroom, I made another DS sock for my fella. This one has Donkey Kong's head cross-stitched on. I've never attempted embroidery before so don't laugh. But it looks a bit more blocky and pixel-like than the intarsia attempt, which i feel is more fitting with the general theme. And it was probably a little bit easier. I think. Less tangly-thready anyway, cos you can just do one colour at a time for the monkey bit.



















This is the image i used for the embroidery. You could only really fit a 16 pixel wide image onto my DS-sized piece of knitting otherwise i might have gone crazy and put the whole monkey on, limbs and all. I used scrap yarn for the whole thing. The gauge of the main yarn used is somewhere between double knitting and aran weight.

How to make one, knitfaced style

• cast on 40 stitches of background colour wool, using 4mm dpns


• join and knit stocking stitch tube, whilst drooling in front of telly


• when DS fits snugly in tube, do 3 needle bind off to seal one end


• find even more scrappy bits of wool in appropriate colours


• cross stitch piccie on, using one cross stitch across each knit stitch


• tie off ends of embroidery wool in half-arsed knots on the other side