More Menagerie

I was looking for the satisfaction that a quick project provides and settled on Rabbit to go along with Ribbit that I made last summer.

He is another tennis-ball tummy pattern from Susan Anderson's Spud and Chloe blog. My Rabbit is made with some scrap Cascade 220, and he was definitely a quick knit. I am still waiting to get my hands on some of the heavier weight Spud and Chloe.

Tennis balls come in a 3-pack... so I wonder what animal will be next?

On another note, this has been a week of new and old patterns. A friend gave me a pattern she ordered for 50 cents (plus 15 cents s&h!!!) "a while ago".

That's the pattern in the background on a sheet of paper that is even bigger than sewing patterns! I can only imagine the headaches folks must have had with typesetting and proofing back when this was printed. Publishing is so much easier now. The envelope has 6 cents metered postage, and it is postmarked 1969. I remember seeing pattern offers like this one in the newspaper as a child. My friend never knitted the coat and hat and now even her granddaughters are well beyond the sizes of this pattern. The Zoo book was a surprise in the mail this week. It is a re-release of a book from many years ago (the early 90s, I'm guessing), and I got a copy because I tested the patterns in the book at its original release. I did? I really don't remember that at all. My mind must be going!

Thursday night SnB was fun this week, but oh so fattening and hard on the wallet! In a perfect world, knitting would burn lots of calories! I'll post pictures of my acquisitions next time.