I love the ickleness! Tiny needles and balls of wool. :) My sister had told me it was a bit complicated, that's why she hadn't made the kit I'd gifted her a few years ago (not because she knits, but because her curly hair caused me to call her 'Sheep' for most of her life). It's true that, looking through the instructions, I did wonder why they hadn't explained how to 'inc' or why the 'Gusset' picture looks nothing like the pattern results. Luckily I know how to increase a stitch - in three different ways, in fact - and I have absolutely no problem knitting things which look completely different in their final result to the original picture. I think this blog stands as a strong testament to that. Ehem.
So today I had my first experience of loop knitting - slightly irritating at times, and my thumb is not the most consistent of measures, but I think I did OK:
And eventually I'd made a sheep skin rug for a Barbie Dream House:
Then came the legs, ears and head, which were fiddly and ridiculous to knit - fiddiculous, if you will:
I ask you - cast on 2 stitches, knit 2 rows, cast off!? It's barely worth starting!! Van Gogh had the right idea (I wanted to make a pun on 'eyed ears' there, but it didn't work out) - no one really needs ear lobes. But, anyway, eventually I ended up with...
AN ALBINO HEDGEHOG!!
Hurrah.
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