An Elephant for a new little baby boy - Justin

My grandson Patrick has a new little nephew - namely Justin.  Patrick asked if I would knit a hoodie or sweater for Justin and I decided I would add a little elephant toy for him as well.  Sweaters are in the works and should be done shortly.

The elephant I did after seeing a course to make "Wee Ones" on Craftsy.  I bought the program and thoroughly enjoyed working along making this little elephant.  You can watch or follow the pattern on your own or both - whatever works for you.

I have done a few of the courses on www.craftsy.com and although it is hand knitting I have learned all kinds of things that I either had forgotten or never knew anything about!  Such fun to have a hand knit project on hand when just sitting watching TV or waiting around while hubby has a doctor's appointment... 

Here are some photos of this little fellow/gal - you can also make a hippo or a bunny with this same pattern - that's three different heads that fit on the same body - just the tails and heads are different but lots of fun to make and super fast.

 

Front

 Side

 Back

Side with eyes!

 

Ready for his/her new home!



Christmas Stockings

Every year our Knit Club make up Christmas Stockings for the Women's Resource Centre to be filled by donations from local merchants.  So this year I did three and just have great fun playing around with designs.  Used my LK 150 mid-gauge machine for all three this year.

Here they are hanging on my yarn tree:

 

 

 The green one is the basic sock with a MK snowflake attached later

 Playing with fairisle using my fairisle carriage

 I really like this topper for the stocking rather than the picot one I have used in the past.

Some more fairisle and another topper - not crazy about this one but still something different.

If you want to make some of these up yourself here is the basic pattern. 

Basic Christmas Stocking Pattern