#startrekcraft

Saucer component 

Now this was probably the most recent thing I made of the TNG series. There was quite a bit of trial and error but it was all in good fun. Of course I started off with the iconic saucer and initially tried single crochet rounds - ended up looking more like an octagon. Then I tried making double crochet rounds and that turned out more satisfactory. 

Secondary hull + joining to saucer

Making the adjoining section was like making a slanted cylinder... I actually adopted this pattern from an old Game of Thrones dragon, Drogon’s neck! The Secondary hull was actually a T-shaped piece stuffed with used yarn and wires to bend it upwards into shape.

Warp Engine Nacelle

This was relatively easy, it was just a matter of making a regular cylinder with the tip being in red. I just added on light blue surface slip stitches to the sides. 

Wording on Saucer

This was pretty frustrating initially for me... I tried using the yarn to string the words, turned out too fat and occupied far too much space on the saucer. Then I shrunk it down to 2 ply (instead of 4) and tried to make the words at half the size. But I could hardly see what I was sewing on. At last, I decided to just go for writing on regular cloth, cutting it up and pasting it on!

Navigational deflector

One of my many uses for my rhinestones... also the same thing I used to make Thano’s infinity stones. Then I strung light blue yarn on top and below it for good measure.

Final USS-Starship Enterprise-D

Ta-da! I was quite happy with the final piece after I put them all together. This was also soon after I remade my Star Wars X-wing. Will definitely be posting more of its completed state in many views! What do you think?

Full pattern here.

Actually making the Starfleet uniform is pretty much the same for the whole TNG crew, minus the changes in colours. So I thought that adding in the rank pips will make for good differentiation and distinction.

Of course, Jean Luc has the highest rank in the ship as Captain with the most pips. As for how I did it - I initially tried using correction fluid but the white circles didn’t hold up too well. I subsequently used a white nail polish nib pen and after it dried, coloured over it with a gold pen.

This is the various ranks with respect to their pips. So technically, Riker and Beverly are both the same rank. Except when there’s an emergency and Crusher has even more authority than Picard. (Wonder if she’s going to be around for the new Picard series?)

Data’s pip was tricker because it was black in the middle. So after I coloured over the whole circle with a gold pen, I drew a dot down in middle with a black pen. Not too obvious here eh? There wasn’t a lot of room for more details 😂.

Then the pins were added. Riker was the previous generation I made and Picard was the next generation (no pun intended). I had sold off the first Picard I made (kudos to you fanboy picard88!).

The first round, I drew out the Starship logo onto a piece of cloth and painted it silver with a silver pen. The second round, I decided to try to use silver yarn to mould out the shape of the logo (not obvious enough?). Which is better you think?

So there, my mini TNG crew. Anyone else excited for the upcoming Picard series?!?!

Patterns available here.