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Halloween Ghost Knitting Pattern

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Hello,

I have a new pattern to share with you today for a Halloween Ghost:) He’s a really fast knit, I’ve knitted him in the round with the Magic Loop technique and I used double knitting wool with size 4mm circular needles.

You could also add a loop to the top of his head so that he can hang from something or make a mobile.

Here’s the pattern:

Materials:

A few grams of double knitting wool

4mm circular needles

Black fleece for eyes and mouth

Felting needle

Sewing needle

Small amount of stuffing

Stitches:

Kfb: knit into the front and back of a stitch to increase.

Pattern:

Cast on 5 stitches and join for knitting in the round

Round 1: Knit

Round 2: Kfb into each stitch, (10 stitches)

Round 3: Knit

Round 4: Kfb into each stitch, (20 stitches)

Rounds 5-14: Knit

Round 15: (Knit1, kfb) repeat the brackets across the round, (30 stitches)

Rounds 16-20: Knit

Cast off loosely.

Finishing:

Sew in all ends

Push a small amount of stuffing into the top of your ghost to give the head some shape.

Needle felt the eyes and mouth on with a felting needle.

Happy knitting!

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Creative Friday

Jen

Cady

Erie

Jen, Erin and Caiden learnt how to draw the eye today…

PS. I have just added a thread over on my Mamma4earth Ravelry group called Test Knitters. If you would like to be involved in my future test knits, please pop over there and comment on the thread. It doesn’t mean that you have to participate in every test knit, it just means I will earburn you to see if you are keen to take part when there is one:)

Go here to see more.

Welcome to Creative Friday,

Please feel free to post your links to anything you have created and would like to share, it can be a recipe, sewing tutorial, knitting tutorial, felting, crochet, crafts, art, spinning, weaving, working with fibre, photography, poetry…etc…

I have added a Creative Friday button on the sidebar of my blog, please feel free to add it to your blog for Creative Friday and link it to http://www.naturalsuburbia.com/ so others can find this space and share their creativity too:)

1. I have started a Creative Friday Flickr Group where you can post your beautiful photos that you link to each Creative Friday. To join the group, please go here.

2. If you would be so kind as to link back to Natural Suburbia in your blog post that would be lovely or pin, share on Facebook and Twitter.


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April 1st, Germandolls

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Welcome to our new sponsor Ulla, who creates the most beautiful handmade dolls and sells them in her Etsy shop, Germandolls.

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In Ulla’s words:

In an age when everything is made of plastic and synthetics, my cloth dolls are handmade with pure wool and cotton, natural materials that warm to body temperature as they are held. Have you ever hugged a plastic baby doll on a cold winter morning?

My soft, warm dolls are unique, huggable, and as individual as the children – young and old – who love them! I fashion my dolls using Waldorf techniques. It is an old tradition of making cloth dolls developed in Germany around 1900.

According to the Waldorf philosophy dolls should be made from what nature has given us: natural fibers such as sheep’s wool, mohair, and cotton. The dolls have a unique inner head construction which gives form but not detail to the face. Often the dolls have very simple features, sometimes no features at all.

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This beautiful doll can be found in Ulla’s lovely Etsy shop Germandolls.

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willow in basket with bunny copy

Ulla’s recently started selling her work on Indiecart where independent dollmakers offer their finest collectible wares for sale. Hope you visit her upcoming auction. Willow and her sweet bunny baby will be for sale there on Wednesday the 2nd of April!

Here is the link for the auction and here is the link for the Ulla’s Indie Store.

Other places where you can find Ulla:

Flickr
Blog
Twitter

For sponsorship / advertising information you can contact me here: lindadawkins@mweb.co.za

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Creative Friday and an Easter Bunny Knitting Pattern

Easter Rabbit Knitting Pattern

Easter Bunny knitting pattern

Hello friends, I can’t believe it’s almost April and Easter will be here soon. I have added a link above to my Easter bunny knitting pattern for you if you’d like to knit one or a few for your Easter baskets. If you are attending craft fairs you may sell the bunnys knitted from this pattern:) The bunny is knitted in the Magic Loop but not to worry, I have included a tutorial link for this in the pattern post.

If you’d like to see other knitters bunny projects of Ravelry go here.

Happy knitting!

Welcome to Creative Friday,

Please feel free to post your links to anything you have created and would like to share, it can be a recipe, sewing tutorial, knitting tutorial, felting, crochet, crafts, art, spinning, weaving, working with fibre, photography, poetry…etc…

I have added a Creative Friday button on the sidebar of my blog, please feel free to add it to your blog for Creative Friday and link it to http://www.naturalsuburbia.com/ so others can find this space and share their creativity too:)

1. I have started a Creative Friday Flickr Group where you can post your beautiful photos that you link to each Creative Friday. To join the group, please go here.

2. If you would be so kind as to link back to Natural Suburbia in your blog post that would be lovely or pin, share on Facebook and Twitter.

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