Character Name: Samama “Sam” Khalid
Fandom: The Magnus Protocol [podcast]
Voiced By: Shahan Hamza
Yarn Used:
Soles: CraftSmart Value - White
Shoes: Loops & Threads Soft Classic - Black
Trousers: CraftSmart Value - Cornflower
Jumper: CraftSmart Value - Ivy
Skin: CraftSmart Value - Coffee
Hair: Loops & Threads Soft Classic - Black
Basic pattern here.
Oh, Sam. Talk about being doomed by the narrative…our poor boy. After Episode 29, I was trying so hard to get him finished in time for the finale. Didn’t quite manage it, but I at least got him done before Season 2 starts. And, hey, at least on my side of things Alice can give him a hug. (Side note: I’ve actually had him done for WEEKS, but I messed up his mouth and had to fix it…a thing I definitely forgot to do until now. Which is why I’m posting him several weeks into S2 despite having him done well before the hiatus ended!)
Sam differs from the base pattern as follows:
Shoes: Hey, I remembered the different-colored soles again! Anyway, I figured he would wear basic trainers, so I did them the same way as I did Joseph’s.
Trousers: Sam strikes me as the kind of guy who dresses as casually as he can get away with in the office, unless something big is happening…like, say, a certain big-shot MP coming for an inspection. (Projecting? Me? Onto my blorbos? Surely you jest.) Anyway, I gave him a pair of nice, comfortable light-washed blue jeans.
Jumper: I decided to give Sam a turtleneck, only partly because I only had the jumper yarn with me and didn’t want to stop yet. He just seems like a turtleneck kind of guy. Anyway, the way I did that was to just continue with the shirt color up to where the chin starts, then switch to skin color and do the next round in back loops only.
Head: In the grand tradition of “Ollie overcomplicates everything”, I decided to give Sam curly hair. To do this, I used a popcorn stitch. Basically, for every other stitch on Sam’s scalp, I did four hdc, dropped the last loop, inserted through the first stitch, and pulled the loop through. It’s a cool effect, but good God, it took forever. For the bangs at the front, I decided to give him a few corkscrew curls, which are pretty easy - you just chain however many stitches you want to do, and then do a series of fans up the chain. I did some in sc and some in hdc. It was more or less random, I’m afraid, but I like the effect! I'm not super happy with how his mouth came out, but it's definitely better than my first attempt, and I'm not changing it again.