Flagel Knitting Files

You'll remember my son,  asked me at Christmas to knit a set of hand puppets for his daughter, my grand daughter, M.  I may or may not be able to figure out how to make hand puppets, but I knew I could knock out a quick set of finger puppets and we agreed, for now, that was a nice start. My jungle of finger puppets so far Between my Fair Isle toque knitting I managed to create a few puppets.  First there's the friendly, furry Lion.  I'm using the same free pattern designed by Kerrie Rycroft found on knitty.com  used back in January 2012 .  But this time I tried to improve the overall look.  The mane of the lion was improved with Tena's suggestion I treat it like fringe.  This secures the mane and with a few quick brushes with a needle the wool becomes frizzy and from my POV more lion mane like. With Tiger I decided to forego the around the body stripes and use the Fair Isle technique instead.  This makes the stripes look mo...

I remember when Lex was very small I used my right index finger and thumb pressed together to create a beak and my remaining fingers as head feathers.  He named the finger birds Beaky.  I was responsible for managing the Mama Beaky and he created the Baby Beaky.  The difference in the sizes of our hands was part of the fun.  As I think about it, it's hard to believe I lacked the wherewithal to figure out something like finger puppets would have made the game better, but then we did have lots of fun telling stories to each other.  Perhaps this was the start of his having to be creative, when all he had was his hand to use as a toy. So when I had a chance I decided that Kai should have finger puppets to tell his stories.  I did some looking on the internet and found this free  pattern .  It includes instructions for a Lion, Tiger, Bear and Elephant.  If you compare mine with the photo on the pattern you'll see I ...