Making my own pattern

So after starting out and knowing the basics of crochet I was getting a little bored of following books and decided I'd take a crack at making my own pattern, which is incredibly difficult by the way and starting looking around the Internet for some sort of inspiration on what to base the pattern on. It wasn't until about a month later I found the perfect thing to make a pattern for, I'm sure everyone is familiar with the little mascot for EDF energy, yep you guessed it Zingy that cute little robotic creature that sort of dances on the adverts :D for those of you who don't know who Zingy is here's a picture of him.

Zingy

So anyway I'd never made a pattern before so this was a new challenge for me to take on. I first realised I was going to have the most problem with the head as he has that little point on his head but after abit of experimenting and guessing i managed to make the head and then started on his body, this is where I made a slight hiccup, I accidentally made the body too big for the size head I had made, as you can guess I wasn't very happy. How I fixed the hiccup, simple I just made another Zingy head but slightly bigger. The thing I've found with crochet is that it doesn't matter what mistakes you make always keep the project, it's a brilliant reference for you to look at and see where you went wrong and where you went right. I realised this with my first 2 Zingys they didn't seem anything like the shape Zingy was supposed to be but Ive still kept them to help me improve my next attempts.  

The first Zingy

The second

Both now live on the shelf with my dog I've named Freddy

As you can see the sizes didn't really work out (and yes I know they aren't the right colours but I was just using the wool I had on hand) but I still kept them and took both the patterns and came up with the 3rd try... 

*DRUM ROLL* 

TA-DA

The 3rd and final Zingy

I managed to sort out the pattern (it was mostly with pure luck I got it right) and instead of using google eyes I decided to crochet them instead to make them better. I'm very proud with how this little guy turned out and how much he looks like Zingy.
You may wonder why this Zingy isn't on the shelf with the others well this little guy now lives with my nan and grandad on there living room windowsill. 


* I do not own Zingy he belongs to his Creator and the EDF people BUT I do own this crochet pattern that made him so please no stealing my hard work.