Turn a Reference Photo into a Crocheted Doll Photograph

Format

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Inputs

reference_photo (image) · Required

Outputs

crocheted_doll_photograph (image)

Turn the attached photo into one hand crocheted yarn doll, and photograph that finished doll as a physical object. Vertical 3:4 frame. One image only, no grid and no before and after pair.

THE DOLL
A crochet doll small enough to sit in a palm. It is stuffed, so it is plump, and the stuffing sits unevenly, so one side bulges a little more than the other. It stands or sits alone on a plain pale surface in soft daylight, its weight resting on that surface. The whole body is inside the frame. A short soft shadow falls beside it. Nothing else is in the frame.

YARN AND STITCHES
The whole surface is covered in stitches. Each stitch reads as a V shaped loop, and the loops run in rows that circle around the body. Head, body, legs and ears are each crocheted separately and then joined, and the join shows as a line of sewn yarn. Short fuzz lifts off the yarn, so the outline is never perfectly smooth. A colour change happens abruptly at the end of a row and never blends into a gradient. Close up, the yarn reads as several plies twisted together.

THE FACE
The eyes are two black safety eyes, or two dots embroidered in yarn. The nose and the mouth are a few stitches of sewn yarn. If there is a person in the photo, the face is embroidered the same way, and the hair is made of strands of yarn knotted in.

WHAT CARRIES OVER FROM THE PHOTO
Keep the number of subjects, the pose, the direction each one faces and the proportions of the body. One animal in the photo means one doll. Carry over where the colours sat as a layout of yarn colours: an obvious boundary such as a white chest, a dark back or brown ears stays as a boundary between two yarn colours. Anything the subject wore, had on, or held in the photo is crocheted in yarn as well and given back to it. Nothing that was not in the photo appears.

FAILURE CONDITIONS
1. One or more letters, numbers, brand marks, signatures, logos or watermarks anywhere in the frame is a failure. The count has to be zero.
2. An area of the doll that reads as smooth, with no stitch visible in it, is a failure. A surface that reads as plastic, ceramic or vinyl is a failure. Small parts attached separately, the eyes and the nose, are the exception.
3. Fur that flies strand by strand as it does in a photograph, or any real animal coat texture left on the doll, is a failure. All of it becomes yarn.
4. A different number of dolls than the photo has subjects is a failure.
5. The doll's head, body, legs, tail or ears cut off at the edge of the frame is a failure. All of it is inside.
6. An object that was not in the photo is a failure. No hand, no crochet hook, no ball of yarn. An object that was already in the photo may be crocheted in yarn and set beside the doll or held by it.
7. A pattern sheet with a grid, numbers or symbols anywhere in the frame is a failure. This is a photograph of a finished doll, not a pattern.
8. A face drawn realistically, with human skin and real eyes, is a failure. The eyes are safety eyes or embroidered dots, one or the other.
9. The doll floating in the air or hanging from something is a failure.
10. A frame split in two with the original photo on one side is a failure. Only the photograph of the doll comes out.

IF YOU CANNOT DO ALL OF IT
Keep the stitches visible and keep the number of subjects first. If a held object cannot be made out of yarn, that object may be left out.

Output one vertical image.