"Born to Burn!" Eruptor Hat

"Born to Burn!" Eruptor Hat

My oldest son loves the Skylanders game. He loves the characters, story-lines, and villain, the evvviiilll Kaos.  My husband and I even like watching him play since it’s really comical.  However, there is for right now not a lot of gear for kids who like the game.  I am sure this is only a matter of time but the makers of the game have a serious problem doing this when you have sooo many character options(which is great for game play).  On top of that I am sure it would be hard to figure out which characters to pick to merchandise.  If you pick one character and not another, what happens to the kid who liked the one that was not picked? They get left out.  It’s a challenge I am sure.

So when my sons’ birthday was coming up I asked him what he wanted and he said” Can you make me an Eruptor hat?” My response was we’ll see” So after he was out of the room I started doing what I always do, research.  At the time there was no visual information for me to use, not on Etsy, Ebay, Amazon that I could find.  Now I am not blaming these companies, if the product isn’t there it’s not there.  

So I looked for good pictures of the character.  There were quite a few to look at which was great!  I then tried to dissect Eruptor, I thought if I were to create him in layers what would be the lowest level and how would I build him up from there.  It was a really challenging project.  I would crochet something and it wouldn’t look right so I would redo it, and redo it, and redo it. The artists who drew Eruptor did a great job with all the detail they put into him.  I kept wanting to be able to paint him to get the blending right. However that level of blending is hard to crochet. In the end I am not sure if I am completely happy with the results.  However, he likes it and that is really what matters.