I wanted to finish my mystery knit for Blake this Easter, but it's not going to happen. Instead I put the boots to myself and did the final bit of sewing required to make this hood functional. Dinosaurs laid eggs; eggs are an important part of Easter celebrations (on the pagan side); therefore this is logical. Kinda.

you may notice that blake is not the model in this pic

It's a dinosaur hood from a pattern at Moth Heaven. This one was done up in the Peace Fleece left over from Blake's Accordion Sweater: yummy hemlock & shaba greens. My friend Esther made Blake some shaba green mittens much earlier in the season, so this hood completes his reptile ensemble.

And why is the Boy wearing it? Because Blake hates all my handknits for a few days. I've come to accept it.

Labels: blake, easter, fo

Instead of purchasing a big honking hunk of sugar, I knit my child a chocolate bunny for Easter from Jess Hutch's pattern. I was lucky that this project had a quick turn-around time, so I couldn't procrastinate the scary scary finishing. I just don't have such a good record with finishing toys.

Yarn: brown Paton Classic Merino (bought for Henry Rollins' pants) and two colours of green Galway (sitting in my stash a year because one day I'm going to get over my finishing guilt about my other bag and make Meema's marsupial bag). This project features the most embroidery I've done on a project since the lippity lippity hat. I don't think that the sewing machines who do satin stitch need to worry about the scrap yard quite yet.

Reactions range from, "you could sell this!" (Theresa) to "it's just like the golliwogs your great grandmother used to make." (my grandmother. And no, it most certainly is not!)

Labels: blake, easter, fo, toy