KNITmuch Issue 10

After the giggling was over, I
tinkered with this bit of knitting
and turned it into a reasonable
sheep! With a little button eye
and some bits of black ribbon
for legs, it makes a very cute
applique on the corner of a baby
blanket. Here’s how I did it:
Grosgrain ribbon makes suitable legs for a little sheep.
I took a knitting blanket from
my knit-and-purl class samples (I
also teach classes), then grabbed
some 1″ [2.5cm] grosgrain ribbon,
and one of those clear plastic
buttons frames you embellish
with yarn. I also grabbed black
thread and couple yards of black
double knitting weight yarn.
First, I fashioned legs from the
ribbon, pinned them onto the
blanket and stitched them down
with black thread.
Then, I took that whole swatch in
the second photo, cinched in a
‘neck’ with white baby yarn, and
laid the piece on the blanket so
that the body was fairly centered
over the legs. Continuing with
the baby yarn, I stitched down
the belly. When I got to the tail,
it happened that this was where
the short, cast on tail of yarn was,
so I looped it up into a tail and
tacked that down as I went.
Then, I tucked in the long tail of
yarn under the body and kept
sewing around the back of the
sheep. I sewed the head down
last, on a bit of an angle to give it
an air of grazing.
To make the eye, I wove the black
cotton yarn through the button
form, then anchored it onto the
head of the sheep.
Knitting with a full strand of
Loop-it isn’t really practical, but
you have to love that little sheep!
The final result of my giggle knitting – a sheep on a blanket!
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