Missy Kissy: I've no real reason for naming this creation Missy Kissy. It's just that the lips are in the shape of a heart which make me think of puckering up for a kiss and with the wiggle eyes and ring on her feet...well, it just has to me a miss and not a Mr doesn't it?
Anyway, as you can see I took a jumbo plastic Slinky and crochet around it with fun fur eyelash yarn. It's not as hard as it sounds. Once you get started it goes fairly fast.
I only used one skein of yarn and then stretched it out to cover as much of the Slinky as possible and removed the remaining Slinky spring. I was able to cut it with scissors, but don't use your best pair!
Next I added felt feet, eyes and mouth and even a ring for one of her toes!
Wiggle eyes made the look
complete. There is a slit from the bottom of the eyes to about the wiggle eye. When split apart it is glued to either side of a spring. And you are done.
Best of all, if you stretched your yarn out enough and only ended up clipping off a few of the springs it will still walk down the stairs much like a Slinky of old, but funnier!
I made two, this jumbo one and a smaller one. You can find the pattern on my site along with the patterns for the felt.
Oh yea, about what I did with the left over springs.
Now you know I couldn't leave them alone, right?
I made this belt. It reminds me of a 1960's brass ring belt. I cut the rings apart so that I had continuous circles and then crochet the connectors.Each connector was then sewn around a ring until I had enough for a belt.
I haven't had the nerve to wear it though!
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