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Hi!  I got a few asks wondering about a pattern for my jumping spider!  I made up the pattern myself, but it’s fairly simple and I’m kinda interested to share with others!  I used a 2.5 mm crochet hook and Red Heart Yarn in “Day Glow”, but I’m sure with a project like this people can be very creative with their choices!  If anyone uses this pattern, please link back to my page, don’t sell things you’ve made with this pattern, and also send me a picture!  I’d love to see what people do!

Head:

6 sc in a magic circle

inc 6x to make 12 stitches

1 sc, inc 6x to make 18 stitches

2 sc, inc 6x to make 24 stitches

3 sc, inc 6x to make 30 stitches

4 sc inc 6x to make 36 stitches

6 rows of 36 stitches

4 sc, dec 6x to make 30 stitches

3 sc, dec 6x to make 24 stitches

add eyes - I used 12mm, 9mm, and 6mm - I looked at a lot of pictures online to decide what the eye arrangements should be - jumping spiders have a very distinctive arrangement, but if you want to go for another style feel free!

2 sc, dec 6x to make 18 stitches

1 sc, dec 6x to make 12 stitches

6 dec to make 6 stitches

close off w more decreases

add pedipalps/chelicerae (aka those little face pincer things): 6 sc in a magic circle, 3 rows of 6, and sew on - this is a place where I went fairly ambiguous with the actual spider parts, I think it could be improved upon!

Body:

6 sc in a magic circle

inc 6x to make 12 stitches

do another row of 12 stitches (to elongate the abdomen slightly)

1 sc, inc 6x to make 18 stitches

2 sc, inc 6x to make 24 stitches

3 sc, inc 6x to make 30 stitches

8 rows of 30 stitches

3 sc, dec 6x to make 24 stitches

2 sc, dec 6x to make 18 stitches

1 sc, dec 6x to make 12 stitches

6 dec to make 6 stitches

2 rows of 6 stitches (to make the waist)

attach to head

Legs (you know what you have to do! make 8 of them!!):

6 sc in a magic circle

~20 rows of 6 (basically make them as long as you want!)

I had to taper the legs off at the end by doing some decreases, so they would all fit under the head as the cephalothorax - Spiders have such interesting anatomy!  

I then sewed on all the legs, and used a combination of stitching with yarn (to make the bend in the middle of the leg) and a hot glue gun (keeping the legs close to the head) to pose the legs.  (She looks like a dead spider here, don’t fret, little cutie!)

And that’s it!  I guess if someone tries this and comes up with questions, feel free to ask me!  I wrote this more for people who are familiar with crocheting amigurumis, but there are lots of resources out there for beginners!

Except, V appears to be male. Everyone is using male pronouns for him, in the movie he speaks in a masculine voice, and in the novel we do see a panel of his silhouette naked in Larkhill, and he definitely has a masculine physique.

But, if Valerie becoming V was metaphor for transition, that’d make sense.

That’s in addition to well, the fact that a lot of trans men begin their self-discovery as butch lesbians? It’d sure fit.

Why do I believe that theory? In addition to whole LGBT themes thing, and the letter thing, there’s one more reason. Well, I think this was skimmed by in the movie, but in the novel, we get a pretty solid clue. See, in the movie, exact nature of experiments performed on Larkhill inmates is kept rather dubious if I recall - we know they gave V abilities slightly above normal humans, but that’s it.

But in the novel, it’s more specific. So, what is the field of experiments that are being performed Larkhill concentration camp that they needed human specimen?

Hormone research.

V got strength to throw off chains of opression and fight back and yadda yadda, became a character who ticks off literally every single checkbox on definition of a superhero, including superpowers…

By literal fucking hormone therapy.

Administered to him, ironically, by the very oppressors.

From what I’ve read of Alan Moore’s stories, he doesn’t leave details up to a chance. Everything has a reason, and everything is interconnected with each other. And this, this doesn’t look like a bit of dark irony Alan Moore would pass up, since he loves that shit.