
The above image from
this tweet by Rekha Sharma shows Rekha (Landry) and Kenneth Mitchell (Kol) posing with a giant plush tardigrade. I initially thought the tardigrade might be an upcoming thing from the CBS store, but a little thought (hmm, the tardigrade has been gone for a while...) and Googling told me that it's most likely
this one from Think Geek.
Pretty darned cute, right?
But for those of us who don't have $40 USD to spare on fluffy giant microbes, there is still another way to have your own adorable plushy tardigrade!
This pattern is available for free online for anybody who can crochet (in the style of amigurumi)! I haven't tried yet (although I promise I will), but I'm pretty sure if you did it in a soft chunky- or super-chunky weight yarn (
maybe something like this?) and used bigger safety eyes than the pattern calls for, you could get something pretty adorable, and not entirely dissimilar to a slightly-smaller version of the one being shown off above.
Anybody else have any Disco-related craft ideas they're thinking about taking up over the hiatus?