Twisted Knitter: Happy Fall

My youngest son loves the Laura Joffe Numeroff / Felicia Bond series of books and especially the classic If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. If you've been reading me for a while, you'll remember my knitting a sweater for Mouse a few years ago. Although I know that one famous knitter won't knit for inanimate objects, I'm obviously not one of them. So when I re-visited Wool Windings' felted pumpkin pattern last month, I knew exactly who needed a tiny felted pumpkin. I dipped into my well-aged stash and found two of my favorite yarns - Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride in Rust and a wonderful tweedy green Cascade 220. I'll admit that at first I felt that I might knit a bunch of these little pumpkins, but after one pumpkin, the novelty wore off. They're cute, but I've got a lot of other things to knit, so perhaps I'll just knit (and felt) a new one every year.

I didn't felt this pumpkin in the washing machine -- I used hot water and wool wash in my bathroom sink to "agitate" and felt it by hand. I love the fuzziness of the Lamb's Pride (thank you, mohair) and the woodsiness of the green Cascade.

Now I have visions of knitting a vest for mouse and matching one for a boy.

UPDATE: Thank you Kim and Tracy for letting me know I had comments turned off!

Comments

So so cute... you just want to hug them both!!!

Posted by: Tracy | October 17, 2008 01:37 PM

Ah, much better! Your pumpkin is absolutely adorable. I have no issue with knitting for inanimate objects, especially since they have no opinions. Sweet mouse!

Posted by: kim | October 17, 2008 01:39 PM

Janet,this is so cute!!!

Posted by: Theresa /t does wool | October 17, 2008 02:12 PM

Very cute!

Posted by: Sallie | October 17, 2008 03:00 PM

Those are great books! And that mouse is adorable - he deserves a pumpkin!

Posted by: elizabeth | October 17, 2008 04:26 PM

this is a sweet idea!
lambs pride is great for it!

Posted by: sarah | October 18, 2008 11:49 AM

That pumpkin is absolutely adorable. Thanks for the link!

And I always think it's funny when people put moratoriums on knitted items.... I swore I'd never knit a shawl, and it ended up being one of the most enjoyable projects eh-var! So ya never know! :)

Posted by: Vanessa | October 19, 2008 10:22 AM

So cute for fall!

Posted by: Wendy | October 19, 2008 04:57 PM

So cute! My kids love that book too!

Posted by: tiennie | October 20, 2008 04:42 PM

Oh Janet my grandma in Wales used to make little felted stuffed animals like this, I LOVE your lil pal:)

And so psyched for you re:Spacedust!!!

Posted by: Heather | October 20, 2008 06:05 PM

Adorable!

Posted by: AJ | October 20, 2008 06:05 PM

I remember that book. Very cute pumpkin.

Posted by: Cassy | October 21, 2008 09:51 AM