WARNING: This blog contains opinions, rants, and bad language and even a few moments of sincerity. Welcome to my world.
I can’t tell you how therapeutic it is to knit little creatures. You just can’t make a tiny little mouse tux and be worried or upset at the same time.
I decided that I wanted to have a go at making a Highland Cow. For those who have never been here, they look something like this:
For my effort, I modified Barbara Prime’s Cowboy pattern, added the shaggy hair and made long horns from a twisted iCord. (Oh, and if you ever make her patterns, I would recommend changing the K1 M1 to KFB, and ignore her method for attaching limbs and go for a mattress stitch instead.)
So here’s my little heilan coo:
My sweetheart said he looked more like “Animal” than the real thing!
Either way, seriously, could you frown and make one of these at the same time? I doubt it!
I've blogged about many many things in many many different places all over the web. It's exhausting. So instead I'm bringing it all together in one place, and hope that those of you I know and love won't mind if I natter about techie stuff, knitting, writing, or crack some wiseass remarks about random topics. Let's call it... holistic blogging. 
You’d probably hurt something trying to frown while working on one of those little guys.
Thanks for making me smile. Of course, I’d never smile at anyone’s handicrafts.
Ha ha ha! He’s gorgeous! I sooo want to make one – how do you get ‘em all sown up and stuffed so quickly?
Basically, I knit like it’s my job! Hehe. But these things are so small that I can knit them up in around 4 hours, and it takes another hour probably to assemble them and stuff them and adjust and such. The circus mice I’ve been making take a little longer because they’re so detailed, but I’ve been going slowly on them to try and get them just right, rather than rushing through like I do when I clack out a sweater that takes 6 skeins of yarn!