Skeletoque, aka the Skeleclava

Step 5 The bottom treatment & Embellishments

Here is where I decided to change it from skeleclava to skeletoque. I wanted to be able to wear my scarf with this, and I couldn't figure out where on my chin i wanted to restart after a mouth opening. I liked the helmety look of it as a toque, and I decided to run with it. All I had to do then, was finish it off a little.
I knit a gap under the teeth the same way I made the eye hole gap: back and forth and just don't knit where the teeth are. After about an inch of that, I went right into the k1p1 ribbing for about two inches. I bound off in k1p1, and the main body was done.

The black nasal cavities were worked in duplicate stitch using the acrylic yarn. I'm sure I'll suffer for mixing my natural and synthetic yarns, somehow, but I haven't yet. I just guess at about where they should go, and they look pretty good.

Finally, I blocked it. The edges were curling up a little and I didn't like that one bit. I laid it down on my ironing board, laid a kerchief over top, and blew steam at it through my iron. I never actually put the iron down on the kerchief, just let the hot steam soak through. Then I removed the kerchief and pinned down the skeleclava. When I cam back 8 hours later, it was bone dry and flat as a board. Perfect.