Wednesday, May 23, 2012

A DM's D20

First of all, sorry for the hiatus, I blame my finals (which is a pretty good excuse). Secondly, I have a new project to share!


Yay! This a crocheted 20-sided die, for those who aren't familiar with the nerdy vocabulary. I made this for boyfriend for his birthday (and I'm only two weeks late this time!). I used the pattern found here:


It's pretty decently sized as you can see by my hand. 

The triangles in the pattern are all made individually and then sewn together to make the die. I had no trouble with the triangles, but I would assemble them differently than given in the pattern. In the pattern it says to make four 5-sided pyramids and then connect them, however I found no geometrically possible way to do so (I'm sure I did something wrong.) So if you want to make this I would suggest making one of the pyramids and then connect all the pieces on individually after that, making sure each point is created by five triangles.


I used felt for the numbers on my die even though the picture with the pattern is shown with them sewn on. I did this mostly because I'm not overly wonderful with needle and thread. Plus it took about 5 minutes to hot-glue all of them on. 

Overall I had a lot of fun with this pattern, and even more fun laughing at all my friends who seemed entranced with my crocheting.
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