The Coulomb Chimera

Coulomb is actually made from a number of elements adapted from other patterns.

His body is a simple sphere, based on a draught-excluder pattern, using Sirdar's funky fur yarn. It took a while to find blue fur yarn - coulombs are blue and fluffy, as we all know, so it had to be done. Obviously, the colour is now discontinued, as is always the case <sigh>. But there is a blue in Sirdar's Funky Fox.

Coulomb's feet are based on Rosie Rabbit's from Alan Dart's Animal Magic (sadly now, hard to come by because, yes, you've guessed it, Sirdar discontinued most of the colours.):

Coulomb's nose is actually Rosie's tail!

And Coulomb's hands are based on Gordon Gorilla's (same source):

(I've scanned in the pictures of the animals from Animal Magic. They're here.)

So the secret of Coulomb is that, instead of reinventing the wheel, I took bits of other patterns and adapted them to my needs (rather like Object Oriented Programming - oh yes, I have now linked knitting to computer programming!!).