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Bear Skin Rug
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March 3, 2013
March 5, 2013

Bear Skin Rug

Project info
Knitted Bunny by Jackie Erickson-Schweitzer
Knitting
Softies → Animal
Barbie
Needles & yarn
Unknown Brown Angora
38 grams in stash
Brown
Notes

Two lessons:

  1. Do not make this pattern out of very dark yarn.
  2. Do not make this pattern out of very furry yarn.

The dark yarn makes it hard to see the details of the shape, and so does very fuzzy/furry yarn. Between the two, I had an unidentifiable blob of brown fur that looked more like a dead rat than a bunny.

I left it unstuffed, and it became a bear skin rug for my Barbie dolls.

03-06-2013 (from my old blog)

Then I had the idea to make a knitted bunny with some dark brown angora yarn that I got in a yarn swap years ago. (Heh. Making a knitted bunny out of angora. The irony of it.) I knit my washcloth-sized square of fabric, and then attempted to turn it into a bunny. But the extreme furriness of the yarn, combined with the very dark color, made it look more like a dead rat.

Even worse were the flashbacks to my high school biology class in which we dissected muskrats.

I threw my knitted dead rat skin into the trash. Then retrieved it to use it as a bear skin rug for Barbie and Ken.

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March 3, 2013
March 5, 2013
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Knitted Bunny
by Jackie Erickson-Schweitzer
from HeartStrings FiberArts Website
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  • Project created: March 9, 2013
  • Finished: March 9, 2013
  • Updated: January 4, 2019