Quite happy without electricity – Venus Aqueous #4 vegan superhero comic for kids

Crash, Bang, Wallop – Venus Aqueous #4 vegan superhero comic for kids

All done – Venus Aqueous #3 vegan superhero comic for kids

Get rid of those boats – Venus Aqueous #3 vegan superhero comic for kids

On the double – Venus Aqueous #3 vegan superhero comic for kids

An underwater communication device – Venus Aqueous #3 vegan superhero comic for kids

Basking Shark: Venus Aqueous #3 vegan superhero comic for kids

Venus Aqueous #2 vegan superhero comic for kids: Nibble

Venus Aqueous #2 vegan superhero comic for kids: Lead the way!

Venus Aqueous #2 vegan superhero comic for kids: Help!

Venus Aqueous #2 vegan superhero comic for kids: The race is on!

Venus Aqueous #2 vegan superhero comic for kids: I’m in!

Venus Aqueous #2 vegan superhero comic for children begins today

Venus Aqueous #1 vegan superhero comic for children

Venus Aqueous #1 vegan superhero comic for children

Reflecto Girl! Awesome Vegan Superhero

Reflecto Girl: How would YOU like it? – VEGAN COMIC-BOOK TRAILER

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See – this is why Reflecto Girl isn’t included in the Vegan Rascals Collection – she’s got a 150-page book of her own! 😀

For the uninitiated, Reflecto Girl has an ancient mystical mirror (the Dounto) that reflects people’s misdeeds back onto them. When reflected, whatever a person is trying to do to someone else, happens to them instead. Together with her sidekick – Distracto Boy – Reflecto Girl is an equalizer for the animals.

This bumper comic-book contains the first nine exciting episodes of Reflecto Girl, together with a few puzzles and fact files, and is published by Little Chicken. Available in paperback from all good bookshops, these stories can be read for free right here!

Violet's Vegan Comics - creating fun and exciting vegan children's stories since 2012

Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating fun and exciting vegan children’s stories since 2012

Make your own Megan doll

Megan - vegan comic book character

If you’d like your own Megan doll (from the Megan & Flos vegan science fiction comics), here’s how to make one 😀

First, find a pattern.  I used Jean Greenhowe’s “ten of the best” pattern which is from this book but there are plenty of others to choose from, including lots of free ones you can download.

 So, I won’t give you pattern details, you can just download whichever pattern you fancy and then make her look like Megan.  If you don’t know how to knit yet, you can either learn, or sew a ragdoll instead 🙂

Anyway, this is what I did:

I used DK (Double Knitting thickness) acrylic yarn from my bag of oddments – no need to buy anything new. Her clothes don’t have to be blue, you can choose what she wears, and if you don’t have a bag of oddments, they often sell bags of leftover yarn in charity shops.  I used UK size eleven (3 mm) needles.

The pattern I used starts at the ankles and works up to the top of her head (working in stocking stitch – one row knit, one row purl).  I started in dark blue, for her jeans, then I changed colour, and knitted her light blue top, up to her shoulders,

knitting vegan comicbook character doll
knitting vegan comicbook character doll

then I changed colour again, to pink for her head. Then I cut the yarn, leaving a long length to thread through the stitches. Hey – didn’t I say I wasn’t going to explain the pattern? Sorry – I guess that’s useless information if you don’t have the pattern, and superfluous if you do. Oh well 😀

Excuse my photos by the way, my camera phone is very old. But you get the idea with that 🙂

how to make a vegan comicbook character doll

how to make a vegan comicbook character doll
Arms
how to make a vegan comicbook character doll
Feet

Then I knitted the arms and the feet.  Megan is wearing baseball boots, so I knitted the feet two thirds white, one third red. As you can see from the photo of the finished doll, they are proper red. I don’t know why the photos here make them look brown 😀 Then I sewed laces into the red part.

how to make a vegan comicbook character doll

Then it was time to sew her up and stuff with kapok (natural organic fibre harvested from kapok trees, used for centuries – probably – for stuffing pillows and soft toys). But if you don’t have any kapok, you could fill your doll with cut up strips of old T-shirt. Any soft material will do.

how to make a vegan comicbook character doll
how to make a vegan comicbook character doll

Before stuffing, it was necessary to sew down the middle of the dark blue legs section, to create two legs, and after stuffing I tied a length of yarn around the base of the pink section, to make the head 😀 The boots were folded, sewn and stuffed before being attached to the ankles; and the arms sewn, stuffed and attached at the shoulders.

how to make a vegan comicbook character doll

how to make a vegan comicbook character doll

Next she needed a face! I just sewed her features on, and not very well at first – embroidery is not my strong suit – so I unpicked it and tried again. And again, until I was happy with it 😀

She doesn’t look like Megan yet does she? That’s because she needs hair!

So I made the hair by cutting lots of long lengths of yellow yarn, tying them in the middle, and sewing them from top to bottom of the back of Megan’s head. Ouch! Your pattern will show you how 😀

If you only have a little bit of yellow for her hair, the pattern shows you how to make a hat or a hood for her, and then you’ll only need a little bit to stick out the front.  🙂

how to make a vegan comicbook character doll - doing her hair

Now she looks very Megan-ish! But there’s still one more thing she needs – do you know what it is?

how to make a vegan comicbook character doll

Her solar-powered gravity-adjusting belt of course!

For this I cast on five stitches of purple and worked in moss stitch (every row knit) until it was long enough.  I kept measuring it up against the doll as I went along, until it was the right length. Then I cast off, sewed the ends of the belt together, and added the gems. Or did I sew on the gems first, and then sew the ends together? You decide 😀

how to make a vegan comicbook character doll
how to make a vegan comicbook character doll
how to make a vegan comicbook character doll

Ta-daa!

how to make a vegan comicbook character doll
She looks ready for adventure doesn’t she?!
how to make a vegan comicbook character doll

Why don’t you make yourself a Megan doll?  Or a Reflecto Girl doll? Or any of our heroic vegan characters. And do send us photos if you make any, we’d love to see them 😀

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Watch out manglers!

I’ll tell you in a minute

You can breathe under water?!

You’re not gonna believe this!

Not on my watch

Breathe

Venus is back!

Reflecto Girl 6 begins today!

Aaaagh!

Banned for life

The places you’re not supposed to go

Other talents

A meeting with George

Is he dead?

Don’t shoot!

How would YOU like it?!

A lovely day out for all the family

Battlefield

A day in the country

Moments later

Up and at ’em!

Activism quietly

AAAGH!

STAFF ONLY

Table for one?

She who wields the Dounto

Happy Endings

A number of things

Intrigue

Run!

Dangerous

Only insects