June 25: whale
Today’s toy is a knitted whale. The pattern is by Jean Greenhowe. Using Craft star acrylic yarn and size 0 needles, this is rather small. I like the construction. Maybe next time I will add wire so it can be posed.
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crochet and knit hearts today. I used patterns and made up patterns for many different sizes of hearts to put into a bouquet for my sister, display on my entertainment center and give as gifts to family. Different yarns were used, just any white, pink, red, or purple I had on hand. Sometimes I used…
March 6: bloom bear
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…
April 26: otter and elephant
Today I present two toys since I missed yesterday. HARD day at work… Today’s first toy is a crocheted otter. This design is from Rico design part of a crochet along releasing free patterns every Friday. I used Hobbii 8/4 cotton and some orange from a mandala cake from Lion Brand. This was a fun…
February 9: Izzy bear knitted in the car
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…
June 17: winter mouse
Today’s toy is the knitted winter mouse by Jean Greenhowe. Using Hobbii’s rainbow 8/4 cotton, Sheepjes catona, and size 2 needles, this was a joy to make. Love making toys that are Christmas themed. The thing she is holding is a package.
February 11: knitted love bug
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…