My friend, Otto the owl, is a little giftee for my friends' 2 year old. I was told she was obsessed with owls, so of course I had to make Otto. Of course, the young recipient is two, so obsessions could come and go, but maybe she'll love Otto anyway.
Pattern: Otto the Owl from And So to Bed, by Lucinda Guy
Yarn used: Berroco Ultra Alpaca. You gotta love this yarn--so soft, so squishy. I love alpaca. sigh.
Yarn enabler: Knit-a-way
Time it took to knit when I should have been: Well, I shouldn't have been doing anything else. This was my illicit project--I knit on it when my hands started hurting from knitting mercerized cotton for this. I never put the yarn on my blog. I never showed the wip because I wanted it to be a surprise. But all in all, about a month or so of intermittent knitting.
I think he's awful cute. The seams were a pain to sew up. All his little appendages are fast but kind of dorky knitting, but the yarn was a pleasure to knit. Lots of good projects in this book, might I say. I think there are some more gifts to be knit up....
Secret Secret Feet revealed. Back when my knitting group had a secret feet exchange, one pair of feet went uncovered for a little while, and they just needed some sock lovin'! My yarn pusher--um--group leader got some lovely Koigu that I made into these lovely Jaywalkers. No need to blog-blather on the ubiquitous Jaywalker or on the merits of Koigu, right? Anyway here they are--I hope Ms. Secret Secret feet liked them!
4 comments:
How cute is that owl, really? You must tell us iof the little ones reaction when you gift it, K?
I'm about 5 rows away from finishing my first pair of jaywalkers so I've totally been sucked into the jaywalker black hole.
Yarn pusher *snort* I love the owl!
Thank you Penelope! They are so perfect. I'm wearing them right now and can't believe how soft they feel. These socks wouldn't taken me months; I have no idea how you managed to knit them up in just a week!
THANK YOU PENNY! Otto the Owl is fabulous.
For Penny's fans - Yes, he is super-cute, but he FEELS even better -- he is squashy and soft and his wings flap in a most adorable way. My daughter loves him already. Penny gave him to Ruthy this evening and she wanted to hug him, gave him "drinks" of water, pushed him in a doll stroller and went to sleep tonight (oh so tired) hugging him.
And Penny, you are too funny keeping him a secret so I didn't read about him. Thanks again - and thanks from Ruthy, too! love Sarah
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