Anyone who knows me can tell you that I’m not very good at creating things with my hands. Small mending projects or quick creations with detailed instructions I may be able to muddle my way through. Building something from scratch without a pattern? Forget it. I’m hopeless.
That is why I am completely in awe when someone can look at something in game and decide “I’m going to make that.” and are able to do so.
That is exactly what Linett of Linett’s Lore is doing. She’s looking at hats inside LOTRO and then knitting them and she is documenting all the steps over at her blog.
Linett writes:
I plan to blog the whole process, from developing patterns and colorwork charts out of the screenshots, to test-knitting them, and most likely ripping out and re-knitting them multiple times till they look just as silly (or gorgeous!) as the originals. When the resulting hat is satisfactory, I’ll write up the pattern to share with other crafty LOTRO players who might like to make a silly hat of their own. I won’t accept defeat on this quest, no matter how many times I have to recalculate decreases and adjust the size of the charts, and I hope everyone will come along for the journey!
Linett is on her way to creating her first piece, a replica of the Spring Flinger’s hat from the Spring Festival.
Join Linett on her journey and even give your input in her community polls at: http://linettslore.mymiddleearth.com/
June 14, 2012 at 8:52 am
Wow, that is amazing! I never would have thought anyone would actually do that. I’m extra amazed because I usually find LOTRO hats quite hideous. The woven pattern above looks beautiful, though.
June 14, 2012 at 10:06 am
I’m almost done with the purple maze part of this first hat and…I think I will have to make the horns detachable so the hat can be worn without them, because without them, it’s pretty nice! With them, of course, it is suitably LOTRO-hat-silly…
June 14, 2012 at 10:45 am
Awesome! What a creative project to start! Thanks for sharing this Goldenstar, and Linett, I should pay more attention to your blog! Going to follow this all the way!
June 14, 2012 at 11:55 am
What an awesome blog idea! I would love to see the finished hats.
One thing that might be difficult to do is to make different cloaks in LOTRO!
June 14, 2012 at 12:18 pm
Wow, I can’t wait to see the real thing. I myself have actually thought about crafting heavy armour for my kids. I may actually really do that and use armour set from lotro instead of something generic. Lol.
June 14, 2012 at 1:07 pm
Oh that is too cool!
June 14, 2012 at 1:25 pm
@Ranna No, no, no….must leave horns on,
This very cool. It’s unfortunate that knitting is becoming a dieing artform or so it seems. When my grandmother passed on, I stopped receiving knitted sweaters for Christmas. Every few years all her grandchildren would get sweaters from her.
June 14, 2012 at 1:47 pm
Actually, you’d be surprised by how prevalent knitting actually is. It may not be as necessary as it was a hundred years ago, but many, many people still knit a great deal. Speaking as someone who’s on a competitive knitting team crafting things that have something to do with Tolkien . . . .
June 15, 2012 at 1:30 am
I’m dying to know how a competitive knitting team competes. I have this mental image of five people frantically knitting the last few rows on scarves while the jeopardy theme ticks off the seconds.
June 14, 2012 at 1:53 pm
I should make the next poll: “Horns or no horns?”
June 14, 2012 at 3:47 pm
lovely knitting work, will look forward to the finished product shots. lol and the new poll idea is fab.. my vote. HORNS all the way!
June 14, 2012 at 5:16 pm
Lovely idea! And I think she chose a very special item to begin.
June 15, 2012 at 11:40 am
This is awesome! I totally want a hat!