Mila is ready for big adventures, despite her tiny size. To prepare for those adventures, she picked out her perfect companion outfit, playful glittery short-alls and a cozy hooded cardi.

Crochet toad/frog pattern by Claire Garland

Short-alls designed by me

Cardi designed by me

I knit cute things.

He’s been kinda in this state for a while, I knit like 6-8 detached limbs ages ago and was trying to figure out how to wire them.

Pipe cleaners will work if you don’t go into the fingers and don’t want it to be freestanding, which, if you know my perfectionistic ass, isn’t good enough for me, so I’m gonna have to take it out of the leg.

I also could not successfully get wire into the digits if I had knit the limb beforehand. So basically all the limbs I had knit are useless and I had to knit the I-cords around the wire and pre-formed wire fingers (as pictured in the arm). Successful but exhausting so I’m still on a break after doing that trial and error and successfully doing one (1).

If you're making the dot pebbles knits frog with the wire armature to make it posable, and dont mind your frog having yaoi hands and feet, I highly recommend this modification:

When moving to the rows that start the feet, increase stitches so that you have 3 for each toe/finger THEN add another stich (for 4 total for each) when you do each toe. I did the method where you add a stitch to your needle but I also tried with a normal increase and it worked well too. Then knit it in the round instead of as an icord on a single point needle (two stitches on each needle). I think this helps distribute the stitches around the wire more evenly with less effort. Cast of the stitched on the row that reaches the top of the toe wire and pull the yarn through the toe in a way to help hold the stitches at the toe tip in place.

Then for the palm/bottom of foot (my last picture) I picked up and knitted two stitches and did one to two rows (depending on what has satisfactory coverage for this part of the knit) and then weave the yarn through those stitches and the ankle/wrist stitches to finish it off.

On my first frog this part was a little too exposed and messy even with trying to manipulate the stitches around.