How to zombify a knitted glove? That was the question I pondered yesterday morning. I decided a zombie glove needs to be several things: slightly hobo-ish, visibly horrific, and lastly and most importantly quite shocking.
The yarn I used to knit it was quite hobo-ish to begin with. It was not a very pretty shade of army green and was fairly easy to fray, so all in all making it look a bit grubby wasn’t much of a problem.
It was the horror part that really had me thinking. In the end it was staring me in the face like an undead brain eater whose eyelids have rotted. Fingerless gloves. Fingerless. Severed fingers.
For that bloody stump effect I picked up all the stitches around each finger end in bright and gory red wool. Then I just knit one row and cast off all the stitches. This left a raw-looking wound at the top of each finger. Perfect.
Now for a bit of bleeding. It may have looked neater in intarsia, but I decided that embroidering blood running down the fingers was the best way to go. Since blood is thicker than intarsia. I used a nice fat yarn needle and sewed in the occasional dribble of blood from each of the fingers. It is easy to do because it doesn’t have to be neat at all. In fact neat would be a bad thing.
Et voila. One zombie glove fresh from the undead.
For the final effect I may have to bury it and dig it up again. The things we do for our craft…
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