After my humbling knitted blanket attempt for my sister’s baby, I decided to aim a little smaller and try knitting a bear. Luckily, I could unravel one of my misshapen, dull brown blanket squares, perfect for a woodland creature. I had planned on being earthy and using natural colours instead of opting for pastels with the failed blanket. Yawn. If it had worked out it would have been very dull. The baby would have been bored silly with the blah colours in his blanket I’m sure. Perhaps things worked out for the best.

I found an adorable pattern on Knitty.com, a wonderful source for free knitting patterns.

All seemed to be going swimmingly until I had to increase my stitches to shape the head, which resulted in a bit of a gaping hole at one end. It’s made his head quite wobbly, so that it disturbingly looks like he has a broken neck. Too disturbing for a baby. I had to knit him a bear scarf to hide the hole and keep his head a little more balanced.

The bear also seems to have developed Popeye arms due to my overzealous stuffing. Now it looks like it has taken steroids, has a weird wobbly neck and a pot belly, due to my aforementioned overstuffing problem.

This bear has some serious body issues.

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