Santa Owl, which I made last week for a swap on Swapbot. I used the pattern Edmund Owl for the body, using Lion Brand Fisherman's Wool on size 6 needles and knitting it slightly shorter than the pattern says. The hat I made by making a cone out of glittery red felt, then gluing on cotton ball trim and a sprig of holly. The eyes and beak are felt that I fabric glued on. The scarf I knit longways in garter stitch using Bamboo and Ewe yarn in red, using size 6 needles and casting on 95 stitches.
A cute little snowman that I just knitted for my sister. I used the pattern Mr. Flurry. I knit the body in Lion Brand Wool Ease with size 6 needles. The hat and scarf were also done on size 6 needles in some unlabeled pastel blue baby yarn I had lying around. I had made one of these snowmen for my mom a few years ago and my sister kept bugging me for one, so I hope she likes him. :) The one I made for my mom I knit in Lion Brand Homespun and it ended up about twice as big as this one.
The snowman is knit flat and then seamed up the back. I've always done seams kind of haphazardly, but I started sewing the snowman up and I hated the way it looked so I actually looked up how to seam things properly. I ended up trying out a mattress seam and it worked perfectly! You can't even tell where the seam is. :) I was very pleased. I guess you learn something new every day. ;P
Again, if you want to connect on Ravelry, my name is "kallyn."
these are really cute! i got your question about my purse scarf, but then noticed that you had deleted it. did you figure it ou?. you start with 12 stitches, knit the first stitch, then (yo, p2tog)5 times, you should have one stitch left to knit. let me know if you have any questions. take care! hope you enjoy knitting the purse scarf.
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