And it happened to contain a rather adorable pattern for a sort of small stuffed toy in the shape of a cat. Rather too small for my liking. And rather too two-dimensional. So I selected some leftover chunky yarn, 10mm needles and got going.<\/p>\n
When it came to assembling it, I knitted an extra panel and put it in the base to help it stand upright, and ignored their minimalist embroidered face, opting instead for button eyes, sewn nose and whiskers.<\/p>\n
You can see from the pictures how very simple it really is:<\/p>\n
Here he is made up:<\/p>\n Note: It took between 100 and 150g of chunky wool on 10mm knitting needles to make one. A great stashbuster \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week I had a few hours to kill while some very obliging gentlemen fitted a towbar to my rather tricky car. Two of my boys and I spent those hours pootling around a nearby outlet centre and I picked up a book for a couple of pounds because there was a very straightforward tank […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[109,111,117,136,201,220,222,234,254,255,269,282,474,480],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cat","tag-cats","tag-children","tag-crafts","tag-gifts-for-children","tag-handmade","tag-handmade-gifts-for-children","tag-homemade","tag-kittens","tag-knit","tag-knitting","tag-knittingland","tag-wool","tag-yarn"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"CuddleCat1\"](\"http:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/cuddlecat1.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"CuddleCat3\"](\"http:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/cuddlecat3.jpg\")
<\/a>And here he is standing on his base:<\/p>\n![\"CuddleCat2\"](\"http:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/cuddlecat2.jpg\")
<\/a>Of course, once they’d seen him, everyone wanted one. So… here he is with his next buddy:<\/p>\n![\"CuddleCat4\"](\"http:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/cuddlecat4.jpg\")
<\/a>![\"CuddleCat5\"](\"http:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/cuddlecat5.jpg\")
<\/a>Just another three to go! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n