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if you were to make this in human size youd have to use very chunky yarn to reach a similar look, as we've already concluded

and in real life knitting something with a more reasonable (and consistent lol) size yarn and reaching this length while knitting a scarf horizontally, would take many more 100s of stitches, but i'm going strictly by what we can actually see...

as a knitter i feel the need to mention how the stitches V shape pointing to the side like <<< instead of VVV downwards implies that this scarf was knit in one long horizontal stretch with few rows instead of as a long vertical normal scarf format

There's a weaving technique called soumak that produces a look that sort of resembles this! Or at least i can! Usually I've seen it done with more variety for texture reasons

source: How to Weave Soumak Stitch (frame loom weaving) by Spruce & Linen on youtube

here's another picture that i can only find an unsourced pintrest thumbnail for

and they have a competitor which is exclusively quiggle, looking very similar to Usuki:

quiguki could be compared to, say, Sindy dolls

but considering modern doll lines, what would a modern competitor to Usuki look like?

Here is my proposal: Rainbow Pooluki, a brand celebrating diversity in neopet colors and species. Rainbow Pooluki are highly articulated dolls with inset eyes and varying color schemes, named after neopia central's famous Rainbow pool... (and Rainbow High).

Many Rainbow Pooluki's, like Starry Pooluki, reference famous neopian citizens (such as Kauvara, who is a starry Kau!) but are very fashionable.

I'm not going to have time to put together the video for this this week, as we are about to go visit family. However, I wanted to have something big posted before I go!

The doll body is now up on Ko-fi for members (its free!). Everything has successfully test *sliced* but as per usual I cannot test print.

The ears can rotate, the ear "bands" and ruff and tail are all removeable, and there are two sets of hands now. This includes only the right side pieces and the left side is just an exact mirror.

sfslkdjf im such a fake usuki fan i didnt know they ACTUALLY had a parody of ruth handler

alright i was doing so "good" at avoiding putting up spoilers but who am i kidding. I must show people everything that I am happy about.

In order to facilitate better balance (even if she needs a stand), I made the feet larger and I think I will maybe not do the ankle joint, but do the hand joint for better posing. I'm still considering it. I feel like if I put a magnet or hole in her foot to pose on a stand, it might work better if she had full foot + legs.

And I realized that this just... looks like eevee. So I made one with an eevee tail. And now I'm like, maybe she's too far from a Usul to be convincing? I guess the usul body type isn't the most conducive to this kind of body and now I'm second-guessing myself.

I spent a while fiddling with those legs to make them look better with the chunky body, but they ended up in a quite... wolf-kitty-girl kind of way. almost leaning towards generic. And I thinned out the ruff quite a bit (and it doesn't have its full detail). I had to flatten the stomach a little and make the leg joints very large because so much was showing from the side (and it looked way weirder before this, believe me)

waffling on how to do the head rn. been looking at doll varieties where the heads can be completely removed

(source, source)

and that would probably be pretty helpful for switching out the ruff around the neck/lifting the ruff in order to layer it over the clothes.

The head will already have to be split down the middle,:

the ears are cylinders at the bottom and will insert through both the front of the head and a tab connecting to the back (they'll be a little longer in the final). The cylinders should allow the ears to rotate. The little blue loops will be an "8" shaped separate piece for decor / to hide the cylinder.

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