Wednesday 9 November 2011

Stick to the knitting

I visited my aunt a couple of months ago, who was merrily knitting away. She reckoned it was dead easy, so honour bound I let her show me how to do it and then spent two miserable hours producing this:

8 comments:

A K Haart said...

Wow you knitted a cow pat.

Macheath said...

You beat me to it, AKH!

A fitting tribute to the bovine Leitmotif of this blog.

Pavlov's Cat said...

you obviously have a future in the handcrafted merkin industry if the day job doesn't pan out

knirirr said...

I am informed that that's not too bad for a first attempt.

Nick Drew said...

watch out, chaps

his first caricatures looked a bit like cow-pats, too

but within approx 1.34 weeks he was turning out 3 decent likenesses a day

I'd predict a large cardigan complete with button-holes and a fancy collar by 1 Dec latest

Mark Wadsworth said...

Yes it does look a bit like a cow pat, but it's less useful. Never again.

James Higham said...

Aw, that's so sweet. I had my knitting moment in primary school.

diogenes said...

that reminds me of primary school...I wish I did not have to remember those days