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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 top pattern which required not too much brain power from me.<\/p>\n

It was this book here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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

\"CuddleCat1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here he is made up:<\/p>\n

\"CuddleCat3\"<\/a>And here he is standing on his base:<\/p>\n

\"CuddleCat2\"<\/a>Of course, once they’d seen him, everyone wanted one. So… here he is with his next buddy:<\/p>\n

\"CuddleCat4\"<\/a>\"CuddleCat5\"<\/a>Just another three to go! \ud83d\ude42<\/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":"

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