Happy Dopamine
Materials:
Leftover fingering 4ply Sockyarn: \~ 6g/250m grey/anthracite, for carbon, \~ 2g/85m red, for oxygen, \~ 1g/42m blue, for nitrogen, \~ 7g/ 295m white, for hydrogen, ～ 15g fiberfill. To be happy in this world, sometimes some fundamental assistance is needed. When a friend was feeling bad i decided to cheer her up with some happy-neuro-transmitter. I knitted her some dopamine. So this pattern was written for a cute dopamine-molecule to hug and be happy.
Tools:
doublepins 2mm (or fitting to yarn) (circular needle should also work) scissors, tapestry needle not really needed, more important is a tight knit, that the filling is not showing I got a molecule about 15 cm x 10 cm To Do: The dopamine molecule consist of the hexagonal C6 carbon ring, where the other halfsphere atoms are added. We need: bon atoms, 2 oxygen atoms and 1 nitrogen atom, and 11 smaller hydrogen atom:
I got the basic idea to do C6 ring from the 'Hexagon' Pattern from Jen Reilly on sageyarn. I replaced the yarnovers to minimize holes. I used following 4 types of increases: 'm1': means here to knit one from the row below (right-leaning), cause i'm used to do those, but you can'm1r' or'mil' as well. '(k1, yo, ki) in one st': making 3 stitches out of one. You knit 1 st without droping it of the left needle, make a yarnover and knit the stitch again from the backloop. It's a variation of knit front and back with an extra yarnover. 'm1l' u.'m1r': mainly used are left- and right-leaning increases from picking up the strand of yarn that runs between the stitch you just knit and the next stitch like shown in this video.
C6-carbon-ring:
co 6, join the round (placed on 3 dps) row 01: k6 (knit one row) row 02: \*k1 m1\* 6x (one row) ->12 st row 03: \*k1, (k1, yo, k1) in one st\* 6x -> 24 st row 04-05: k24 row 06: \*k2, m1r, k1, m1l,k1\* 6x -> 36 st row 07-08: k36 row 09: \*k3, m1r, k1, m1l, k2\* 6x -> 48 st row 10-11: k48 row 12: \*k4, m1r, k1, m1l, k3\* 6x -> 60 st row 13-14: k60 row 15: \*k5, m1r, k1, m1l, k4\* 6x -> 72 st row 16-17: k72 Now the decrease rounds begin: 'k3togc': means to knit together 3 stitches that the middle stitch is centered on top. To do so the next 2 stitches are sliped together as to knit. The third stitch is knitted, the two slipped stitches are lifted over the just kitted (3rd) stitch with the left needle row 18-19: k72 row 20: \*k5, k3togc, k4\* 6x -> 60 st row 21-22: k60 row 23: \*k4, k3togc, k3\* 6x -> 48 st row 24-25: k48 row 26: \*k3, k3togc, k2\* 6x -> 36 st row 27-28: k36, row 29: \*k2, k3togc, k1\* 6x ->24 st row 30-31: k24, row 32: \*k1, k3togc\* 6x -> 12 st row 33-34 k12 row 35 \*k2tog\* 6x -> 6st Cut the yarn and pull through the last 6 stitches with a tapestry needle. Pull the thread through the center to sew front and back together that there is a litle hollow (?) Oxygen-, carbon-, nitrogen atoms: co 28 (leave the thread long enough to use it for sewing together the molecule together), joint the round (placed on 4 dps) row 01: k28 row 02: \*k3, m1, k4\* 4x -> 32 st row 03-05: k32 row 06: \*k3, k2tog, k3\* 4x ->28 st row 07: k28 row 08: \*k2, k2tog, k3\* 4x ->24 st row 09: \*k1, k2tog, k3\* 4x ->20 st row 10: \*k2tog, k1, k2tog\* 4x ->12 st row 11: \*k1, k2tog\* 4x ->8 st Cut the yarn and pull through the last 8 stitches with a tapestry needle. We need 2 carbon (grey/anthracite), 2 oxygen (red), 1 nitrogen (blue) Hydrogen: co24 (leave the thread long enough to use it for sewing together the molecule), joint the round (placed on 4 dps), row 01-03: k24 row 04: \*k2, k2tog, k2\* 4x -> 20 st row 05: k20 row 06: \*k1, k2tog, k2\* 4x -> 16 st row 07: \*k2tog, k2tog\* 4x-> 8st Cut the yarn and pull through the last 8 stitches with a tapestry needle We need 11 hydrogen atoms. Stuff the Atoms with filling and sew them together to build the molecule, ready! Happy Dopamine.
