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Belive it or not there are at least two players in the New York PFS games where this will come very handy.
Also, when I saw the blog title I remembered a certain old lady from Riddleport's St. Caspian's (Pathfinder 13) that had rather large meat hooks for hands. (courtesy of Tim Hitchcock that rube)
Sorry, no. What you have there is clearly an African elephant, not a mammoth of any sort.
Mammoths have a distictive shoulder hump and ears smaller in proportion to their heads than even an Indian elephant, let alone an African.
Even within the limitations of a low resolution knitting pattern, it should be possible to alter the image to more closely resemble the animal you want.
Sorry, no. What you have there is clearly an African elephant, not a mammoth of any sort.
/facepalm
/facepalm
Check the animals depicted HERE
The one on top is not a unicorn or a horse.
The one below is not a mammoth or a mastodon.
That's irrelephant, honestly - I'm sure that if Paizo readers would get around to knitting one, those who would survive the ordeal would come up with something more akin to an otyugh or aboleth as result.
Ha! You may be right. I'm pretty sure anything I attempted would not even be easily recognizable as a mitten. :)
HAHAHA! Crazy and awesome Judy!
Even within the limitations of a low resolution knitting pattern, it should be possible to alter the image to more closely resemble the animal you want.
Heh, I admit that when I wrote this up yesterday morning I was a bit more concerned about shaping and coherent stitch counts than species differentiation. I can maybe try tweaking it more tonight; if anyone else wants to give it a shot and turns out a good result, I'll totally credit you when I post the pattern on Ravelry (and maybe use your motif when I'm knitting mine up to bring to Gen Con)!
Requirements: Chart A: mammoth itself can be at most 18 x 9 pixels, (MAYBE 18 x 10), to give space for borders and between repeats; Chart B: mammoth can be at most 22 x 9 (or 10) pixels.
I've got no clue how to post an image here, but I've edited one of the JPEG grids above to bulk out the neck and shoulders (just filling in four squares), resize the ear and make the tusks more...well, mammoth.
The result is still 9 x 13 squares, same size as the original.
Another variant, higher in the head/shoulders:
Chart A': http://i27.tinypic.com/40yae.png
Chart B': http://i30.tinypic.com/sblwe8.png
Or if you like your mammoth meatier:
Chart A": http://i29.tinypic.com/2cr14cz.png
Chart B": http://i26.tinypic.com/zjaxwi.png
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The one below is not a mammoth or a mastodon.
I'm pretty sure that one on the bottom is two guys in an elephant suit.
Make sure this ends up on Ravelry, please. 8^)
Done! http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/mammoth-mitts
Okay, I got finally got my mammoths (two versions) uploaded to Photobucket
I really, really, really have no words.
RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32, 2010 Top 8
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just be careful taking them to Alabama, parts might fall off.
Why?
** spoiler omitted **My soul hurts now. Ow. Ow. Ow.
Do you know how often I get to use that Marx Brothers line?
Me: I was on a safari in Africa once.
CSR: Really?
Me: Yes, woke up one morning and shot an elephant in my Pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know.
CSR: Huh?
But now a days, fart jokes and profanity are considered high comedy.
Contributor, RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4, Legendary Games
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just be careful taking them to Alabama, parts might fall off.
Why?
** spoiler omitted **My soul hurts now. Ow. Ow. Ow.
Do you know how often I get to use that Marx Brothers line?
** spoiler omitted **
But now a days, fart jokes and profanity are considered high comedy.
Sad but true.
After being derailed by a number of other projects, I've finally finished my Mammoth Mitts!
The brown sections are merino worsted worked in two-stranded knitting both for extra warmth and to keep the thickness consistent with the patterned band.
In the patterned band, the cream yarn is handspun cormo and the brown handspun merino (some of which inexplicably got purple... something carded in with it before spinning).
I'm not great at embroidery, so some of the tusks turned out better than others. But overall, I'm pleased!