Another cute pattern from Alan Dart made extra special by all the additional touches, especially the cute little robin!
Slight changes to make it easier for me were, knitting the holly leaves in one go to save darning in ends, using a plastic circle for the skirt base and hat instead of card and using a lighter to help form the robin’s pointy beak. I often quickly flash a lighter across ragged little bits of knitting to “clean” it up.
I also chose a particularly thick variety of black DK yarn from my stash to knit the hat so that it wouldn’t need to be fixed with hairspray to help keep the brim stiff.