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A little bit of this and that

Over the past week I’ve been jumping from project to project. So everything is part way done, and gets worked on depending on who is awake and around!

Part of my rainbow of gnomes is ready to sew up – red, orange & yellow. And green is next 🙂 I’ve decided to sew them all up at the end, rather then someone working out what they are along the way, shhhh 😉

Sneak peek

Another knitted bunny is ready to be fashioned out of my green knitted square.

Oh, and I got sidetracked by knitting some simple ‘sleeping bags’ for some new Spring Flower Gnomes that I have just made (post to come).

Apart from knitting, I’ve got other handmade items on the go. So, what with all this crafting, it may not be surprising that I haven’t done much reading. But when I do have a spare moment I’ve been enjoying ‘A Game of Thrones’ by George R.R. Martin.

Joining in with the Yarn Along 🙂

Warmly, Kelly

P.S please excuse the poor photos!

December 14, 2011 by Kelly

Knitted bunny

In my search for more (and more) information about Waldorf I came across this great book ‘Creative Play for your toddler’ by Christopher Clouder and Janni Nicol at my local library.

And since we’re coming up to Christmas (5 weeks… eek) I thought – great – handmade pressie for my little ones 🙂 Starting with this very sweet knitted bunny for Little Miss Q (23 weeks).

So during a long 9 hour drive to visit family I got knitting. Casting on 40 stitches and knitting stocking stitch (knit a row, purl a row, repeat) until I had a square (around 16 cm each side). I also left a nice long strand of wool on each end (from casting on and off) to help sew bunny up later.

To create bunny’s legs I joined each corner together for about 5 cm. Next I sewed along the cast on edge before gathering it to help make bunny’s head. Then I kept sewing to join bunny up (i.e. from head gathering down to bunny’s hind legs).

Stuffing bunny came next and I started by making a head shape and then tying it off with wool. Then I filled the rest of the body and played around with his shape (he? – who knew!) – this part was the trickiest for me (any hints for next time welcome!). Once I was happy with his shape I joined him up.

For the ears I cast on 6 stitches and knitted until they were around 6 cm, before knitting 2 stitches together each row until casting off. Then I sewed these on (again I’d kept some wool attached from casting on to sew with). For bunny’s tail I wound wool around my finger and tied it up.

I hope she likes him 🙂 Thanks for reading, Kelly

November 19, 2011 by Kelly