For Calvin I made a Hobbes.
You have to understand, I’ve wanted to make a Hobbes for Cal since before Calvin came to be.
People sometimes ask: “Did you name Calvin after Calvin and Hobbes?” To which I frown and think inwardly “that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” and outwardly say: “no, I just like the name Calvin for what it is” which is the truth.
But it doesn’t hurt that Calvin in C&H is adorable.
And so before Cal came I searched high and wide for a perfect orange cozy terrycloth with which to make a tiger.
Do you know how hard it is to find orange terrycloth at the fabric store?!
I finally got some orange towels at Walmart.
And then it was a disaster.
And Wyatt was annoyed.
And the cut up orange terrycloth towels sat in my basement for almost two years . . . reminding Wyatt every time he went down that he was annoyed. And reminding me every time I went down that Cal still didn’t have his Hobbes.
And then this Christmas rolled around.
And the idea of sock monkeys came to me.
And then the idea of a Hobbes using the sock monkey pattern came to me.
And then the perfect fuzzy orange chenille socks from Old Navy came to me.
And then the perfect fuzzy orange chenille socks from Old Navy came to me on sale.
And Hobbes came to be.
And Calvin came to have his Hobbes.