Schmancy Olympic Challenge

In January, I entered the Schmancy Olympic Challenge and got assigned the bobsleigh category.  It's the first time I've entered one of my designs into a contest of any kind.  I'm pleased with my finished object, but I realized  when looking at some of the other contestants pictures that I need to buy a light box or light tent to take more professional pictures. You can see the rest of the contestant's entries here.  I'm particularly fond of the entry by Herbert and Friends.  I don't expect to win.

Bobsled_olympic_lake_placid_19

I got my idea for the design by looking through old winter olympic advertisements.  I really liked the look of the poster from the Lake Placid games featuring a bobsled.  It's very stylized and I wanted my look to be very minimal, but as usual during the design process my design became very cartoony, partially due to my love of penguins, so I decided that I wanted to really focus on the textures in the piece.  I've had a ton of people offer to buy it from me, but I knit this design a couple of times trying to get it perfect, so I'm not really interesting in knitting it again, but I would consider it if someone really, really wanted one.  I mostly just do local custom toy orders, but I plan on selling some of my excess toys on Artfire sometime soon.  I'm also planning on selling a knitting pattern based on the design.  It won't be exactly the same, because I usually knit freeform without making pattern notes, so writing a pattern is kind of daunting for this project.

Penguin_bobsled_1