Found a fun little Katamari Damacy knitting pattern here, and decided it would be fun to try! Note – this is not a very appropriate “social” pattern, at least not the first part- I tried working on this at a craft night and could not keep the increases right *and* hold a conversation at the same time.
Wound up having to pick up a bunch of yarn remnants to do this since I had gotten rid of 96% of my stash this winter when we moved out of our studio. I took it on the plane with me during a trip a couple of weeks ago, and the pattern *does* travel well. I finished most of the body work on the drive home to Portland, although we had to stop at the Safeway in Yreka so I could pick up something resembling a yarn needle since I had forgotten that part of my kit at home. Very pleased with how it turned out! I am planning on doing more in different shapes now that I have the general idea on how to make them. What I would do differently next time is to knit the face color in when I am working on the head instead of stitching it on later, and I would stuff the head with something lighter, as stuffing the whole thing with pinto beans made it rather top heavy.
This was so simple it was almost criminal. A buddy of mine picked up a 50 lb bag of coconut flour from Bob’s Red Mill (don’t ask why) and distributed samples for us to play with. I took the oatmeal cookie recipe off of the Quaker Oats box, but substituted coconut flour for the traditional flour. I figured out later that I should have added an additional egg or two to balance it out, but the cookies still stayed together pretty well.
Aaron decided that “fried ice cream” flavor ice cream would go really well with oatmeal cookies, so that is what I used. I used a large spoon to squish ice cream into my silicone muffin pan. I filled them all the way up, but next time I would only fill them half way. You could probably do this with a regular muffin tin, but the silicone makes it really easy to release the ice cream from the mold. The muffin pan went into the freezer while I prepped and baked the cookies.
I used a circular cookie cutter to make the cookies match the same size as the muffin pan reservoirs. Cookies were a little crumbly because I didn’t use enough egg, but oh, were they tasty!!!! I think it is better to assemble the pieces while the cookies are a little bit warm because that helps the ice cream to stick to the cookies.
