Both of my girls have been learning to knit. I had resisted asking them and they finally came to me and asked that I teach them. I cast on for them and they completed a few rows and then lost interest. It is hard to keep going to complete a whole project. But after showing them the little owls, they were hooked again and both managed to finish one off in a day (with some help from Mum).
We added Some felt wings too so they can fly. Little monkey has already started another one to be a little friend to her Owl. There is a little cat too in the book, perhaps we should try that one too.
After a quick trip to my local fabric shop, I pulled out a few of my Ottobre magazine and made a skirt for small monkey. I had a subscription to Ottobre for a while, but had not made anything from it before. I always love the designs, but struggle to find good fabric for the girls. Especially stretch fabric.
This is what faced me when I started:
Can you work out which one I should trace?? Crikey!! Luckily I managed to work it out and the very sparse directions to finish the skirt. I will take a photo of it tomorrow on the lucky girl.
2 comments:
Yikes! Patterns like that just make my head spin.
I'm glad the little owls got an outing. They are just adorable and I bet the girls will treasure them always as their very first knitting project. Better pries them from their hands so they stop taking them to school!? x
The owl is so cute & huge luck with the pattern, 'tis why i draft my own, i'm untrained in the ways of serious pattern using. Love Posie
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