Elmer Parsnip's Easter Baskets, Bunny, Lamb & Chick by Abigail Orlando

Elmer Parsnip's Easter Baskets, Bunny, Lamb & Chick

Knitting
December 2012
Patons Studio/Patons Caressa
Any type DK (8 ply)
DK (11 wpi) ?
22 stitches and 30 rows = 4 inches
US 3 - 3.25 mm
English
This pattern is available for £3.22 GBP buy it now

Create your family’s Easter with your talents, skill and love to make original Easter gifts that last longer than the chocolate.

Excellent, easy, durable low-cost items to raise funds for your causes.

The unique woven spherical construction

means these toys are hollow

and very easy for tiny fingers to grasp. They

are easily pulled open to insert all

types of gifts and after removing the

gifts they bounce back into spheres.

Easy DK Pattern includes instruction to make:

  1. Large Lop-Eared Bunny Basket with

flower trims 20cm wide x 20 cm high

  1. ’Elmer Parsnip’ Lamb Basket with

Jaunty Scarf 25cm w x 25 cm high

3.Tiny ‘Elmer’ Lamb (Cadbury’s creme egg

holder) 9cm w x 11 cm high

  1. Baby Bunny (choc bunny holder) 9cm w x 11 cm high

  2. Little chick (Small egg holder) 9 cm w x 11 cm high

  3. Flower Trimmed Easter Basket

  4. Small Flower Trimmed Easter Basket +

Bow trim 15cm w x 22 cm high (to top of handle)

  1. Multi coloured Woven Easter Basket

13cm w x 17cm high

You will not require any bought haberdashery or trimmings

All items are entirely knitted in DK

These are designed to be toys to be loved and played with by tiny hands. Therefore

they do not include glue, cardboard, wire,

or any choking hazards.

They can be made from left over yarn and will be totally

machine washable and provide absolutely safe

fun for all ages.

Most knitters want to knit, not sew or faff around with glue

or buy expensive glass eyes and buttons.

Therefore, all parts can be

knitted, usually from left over yarn you already have.

The pattern is quite simple and easy to follow and I am happy

to give guidance and help. I am always at the end of an email.

If you are a beginner/basic knitter don’t look at

the picture and think ‘I can’t do that’ -

I bet you can with support from me.

I don’t do ‘difficult’ either.

For those of you who knit for profit, or particularly

fund raising, you are absolutely welcome to sell

your knits wherever you please with my blessing.

I am so thrilled that some of you are using my designs

to help raise funds for homeless children in

shelters and other worthy childrens causes.

The pattern itself however is my copyrighted

design and may not be reproduced in any other form.