Dear Sheep Test Knitters,
If you don’t have a copy of the finished ‘S is for Sheep’ pattern waiting in your inbox this morning, give a shout and I’ll fix that.
All my best,
Emily
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S is for Sheep
It’s before noon on Wednesday, so it’s still early in the week!
S is for Sheep
She’s available on Ravelry and Etsy. Etsy does instant downloads now, although it is still easier to get corrections to you by way of Ravelry so that’s still what I recommend. I always seem to need those corrections.
As an aside, I know that ‘Sheep’ isn’t a technically correct choice for ‘S’ from a phonetic standpoint. But it is the only choice for ‘S’ from a knitter’s standpoint!
First Among Sheep
I made the very first sheep with a great handspun wool that was grown by Farrah and spun by Cassie of Farm Genevieve. (Farrah is a Shetland sheep.)
Such great texture.
I would have used him for my example sheep in the pattern, if it weren’t for his dark accents. I just couldn’t get pretty pictures! The dark was my my own bad judgement (and Ellie’s), but he looks great in person (and Ellie is pleased – his name is Sheepy)!
There are eyes in there I swear.
For a pattern, it’s kind of important to actually see what is happening in the illustrations.
Such a shame. He has a natural talent for modeling.
The Many Faces of Sheep
My latest sheep head. I think I got his eyes too far apart.
Melissa’s Sheep Head (and cat)
Susanna’s Sheep Head (the shiny safety eyes really work for me)
Anybody else got a noggin finished?
Knit-Along?
I’ve enlisted seven test knitters (hey, why not) for the Sheep Pattern so it’s feeling more like a knit-along than a test knit. I’m not completely sure what one *does* during a knit-along beyond everybody knitting the same thing at once, but it sounds like fun!
In case you forgot what she looks like.
Does anyone else want to join in? I’ll leave the comments open until Saturday night to see if there are any takers. We’re knitting the as-yet-untested sheep pattern and sending me notes. I haven’t finished mine’s head yet, so you aren’t far behind.
If you’re posting progress pictures on your blogs, or if you’ve got sheep pictures you’d like to share let me know and I’ll post/share/whatnot here.
Anybody Interested?
We went to Mary Ester this past weekend and somehow I didn’t take a single picture. But I did finish up the pattern I’ve been working with (and all the pieces for newly listed Snow Cone Tabby).
Anybody want to test knit a sheep?
If there are a couple of you who intend to make a sheep anyway, and wouldn’t mind looking over the pattern while you do it, I would really appreciate it! The idea behind the sheep is for knitters to pick a fun an unique yarn for her wooly parts so that each sheep is one of a kind. I used ‘Fusion’ (held together with some Rowan Pure Life) for the example because it made such a nice yarn idea sampler. If you’ve got a bit of handspun or something that you don’t know what to do with, this might be a good project for it. You only need…
Wait. I haven’t done the math for the yarn amounts yet. I’ll do that right now.
brb
**Thank you Volunteers! I still haven’t done the math.**