I realized that I hadn’t been posting about the projects I’m working on, so I took some pictures last evening to get caught up. A few years ago, I started a course on Craftsy called “Wee Ones,” by Susan B. Anderson; making little stuffed elephant toys, and then set it aside. I picked it up a few weeks ago and finished this little guy.

Nadya was sitting next to me and wanted to see too.

Maybe not THAT close…

She decided to sniff it a couple times.

The eyes are made with some antique buttons from my grandmother’s button collection.

Here’s a close-up. It’s a cute little design.

And in other news, I decided to try making a koi fish. Susan B. Anderson has a little fish pattern and I used this to adapt the pattern and make it bigger.

This will be the face. I stuffed it too much at first and then realized I’m not making a sock, I’m making a fish, and it needs to be flatter.

This end will be the tail. It’s made in similar fashion to socks.

The tail is made on two needles, but still knitting in the round. I’ll post pics when it’s done.

I’m thinking I’m going to try another one with a lace pattern to simulate scale. And also one with overlaid fins. We’ll see; still playing around with it.