Since I have a real liking for nature’s most peculiar, weird, mysterious or misunderstood underdogs I decided to design some of them for anyone who wants to get to know these natural weirdo’s a little better!

The striped skunk is a carnivore in the Mephitidae family, this literally meaning ’stink’. This skunks’ stripes, instead of serving as camouflage, are actually meant to attract attention, pointing out the critters’ most formidable weapon: its’ sickening stench spray gun, that has a range of over 3 meters! And the smell may carry up to one and a half miles downwind! Luckily, there’s no need to be put off knitting your own striped skunk and its’ baby, because it’s an easy project that ’ll come out smelling of roses.

These skunks were knitted on 2.25 mm double pointed needles (UK 13, US 1) in Lana Grossa Mohairnuovo (14) black and (08) natural and Scheepjes Merino Soft (601) Pollock.
The big skunk measures 20 cm and the mini skunk 10 cm from nose to tail and between 35 and 40 m of yarn were used. This project is an easy to medium, fast and fun knit, that asks for intarsia knitting, knitting in the round and flat and loop stitches (described in the (pattern).

Have a knit day!