Do you want to build a snowman?

I was stitching another cone pattern, of a snowman and I went off on one of my tangents.

I got a bit fed up with the counting for some reason and decided I was not stitching the scarf, I had a replacement thought.

Then I made a mistake and missed stitching a bit of twig arm, hmm perhaps I would not stitch the arms then.

Then I decided not to stitch the carrot nose or the hat.

So he ended up looking like this.

Looks more like something for Halloween than Christmas.

First thing to do, stitch him into the cone.

Same overlap method as the reindeer which worked for the same reason, no point at the top to get in the way.

and then well there is this method of doing a little bobble hat that keeps popping up on my feed.

Although that tends to be onto a slice of cardboard toilet roll.

This is much smaller than that.

But worth a try.

Oh not bad, and you may recall I found my wire, just the white and not the black, which I had wanted for snowman arms. Not prepared to wait to find the black a design rethink was required.  

My initial thought was to wrap the wire with brown thread.

Then I thought that I might wrap them with a little bit of wadding first.

Ah but before that he needed a nose.

I may need to add a little something to that later to make it more carrot and less beak.

Then do the brown thread. It did take quite a bit of thread. This was a random thread from a charity shop purchase so I was quite pleased to be using some of it up.

That just left the item that had been the first thought for the 3D additions to the pattern.

Can you remember from the start of this post? Not my crafting strength but unlike the hat there was no cheat method for this. 

Real knitting was required.

Yes a scarf. Actually it was made weeks ago, before I had even finished stitching the snowman.

I am quite pleased with how it turned out.

And am I finished meddling with it?

Possibly not.

I have thoughts about additions that would perhaps utilize my felting supplies.

It depends how the mood strikes me however he is finished enough for now.