May 9: bird
Today’s toy is a knitted bird by my design. I was trying out just one strand of a thicker yarn and testing the pattern. Using Hobby Lobby’s I Love This Yarn Prints and Big Twist yarn and size 2 needles, this came out quite nicely.
Today’s toy is a knitted bird by my design. I was trying out just one strand of a thicker yarn and testing the pattern. Using Hobby Lobby’s I Love This Yarn Prints and Big Twist yarn and size 2 needles, this came out quite nicely.
Today’s toy is a knitted bunny with wire ears. I made up the pattern from a picture I saw, but it didn’t turn out very well. The ears are pipe cleaners, so you can shape them. They look like the old tv antennas. Using Big twist in white and black, DMC floss for the nose,…
Today’s toy is a knitted love bug. I used Bernat sparkle yarn and Big twist value yarn to knit and crochet this bug. I also used Hobbii’s cotton 8/8 for the white hearts. The back of the bug was knitted using the pi percentage of increasing then after the 7 of 8 rounds, I bound…
Today’s knitted toy is a bear that I knitted during a two hour car ride to the coast. The pattern says to start by casting on 32 stitches (it is a free pattern). I will not do that in the future because it is closed at the end, so I will just start it like…
Today’s toy is knitted and crocheted. I think it looks like a hippo but it could be a cow. Using the bloom yarn from Premier and size 6 (4 mm) needles and 3 mm hook, I knitted the head and body. I crocheted the arms and feet. To get the head to change shape, I…
Today’s toy is a bluebird of happiness knitted with Bernat blanket yarn and size 5 mm needles. This design is by Sara Elizabeth Kellner. I had to add the accents to the bird, the lines for wings and beak and the legs/feet because it just looked like a blue blob. Not happy with the yarn…
Today’s toy is a knitted bear. The pattern is from Premier yarn company in order to use their Bloom yarn. I have knitted this bear previously with another yarn, but this time I used the recommended yarn, Bloom in the color Tulip. Love this yarn! The pattern calls for two balls of yarn, but I…