The last few days I have been crocheting in an evening. I absolutely love Amigurumi and am currently working on Neep and his family from Abney and Teal, for my nephew https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/tatie-soft-toys/patterns
For those unfamiliar with Abney and Teal, (I knew nothing of it myself until about 2 months ago) it’s a lovely, albeit slightly surreal, pre-school tv programme. Unlike most other children’s tv, this one is all very natural colours and was inspired by Victoria Park, London. My nephew, who is two and a half, watched the episodes on a recent flight to Portugal and back and now knows every episode word for word even down to which episode is coming next!
The programme centres around Abney, who lives at the bottom of a tree and Teal who sleeps in the branches. They have several friends:
- Neep, a small burrowing creature like a turnip.
- Bop, an aquatic mammal somewhat resembling a furry male elephant sealwho drinks ‘tea’ (actually water from the lake) and blows bubbles.
- The Poc-Pocs, a set of 7 identical-shaped but different-sized comma-shaped wooden objects or hard tropical tree seeds, so named after the noise they make jumping about.
- Toby Dog, a melodeon-playing dog who always sits upright on the same place on the lake’s mainland shore. He normally plays the same tune, which the narrator describes as several sorts of music. There are rare occasions where Toby Dog will play a variation of his tune, notably the lullaby on the episode Bop’s babies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Abney_%26_Teal
You’d be forgiven for thinking it sounds bizarre, but it really is a lovely programme with really calming colours and noises. Give it a go and you’ll see what I mean.
Anyway, here is my first creation…Neep
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