When the children were younger I often used to read Doctor Seuss books for the rhymes and today I am happy to share with you my two ‘Fox in Socks’, along with other garments. I have only had time to knit 3 animals while I have been here, (retirement is proving to be surprisingly busy!), and these are my first two foxes.
This one is for Ellen and I have named him Ferdinand for now. He has a little donut in his rucksack to keep him going on his travels.
Julie from Little Cotton Rabbits is an absolute pattern genius and I have loved doing these. As I mentioned in my previous post, I am going to concentrate on cross stitch for now and get all my ornaments done well in time for Christmas, but no doubt will feel the urge to do some more animals soon. I have not yet made any dogs, or reindeer, and only one bear. I know she is in the process of designing more so will keep an eye on her blog for those.
This one is named Freddie, and he is for my niece, who I made Milly the rabbit for. This one is hers though I hope she will share it with the baby 😉 I have made it very neutral as she does not like bright colours, but think the dungarees look great against the rust wool of the body.
I love the ears and the tail, Julie had a tame fox visit her garden for some years and she has some beautiful pictures on her blog of Kit, who no doubt inspired her. The ears are so easy to knit, despite looking complex.
I have had a very busy, and very exciting week, more of that in the next post when I will update you on all of the happenings here.
Meanwhile, my time in Worcester is coming to an end and I will be going back to Ellen’s at the end of the week. It has been a lovely few months, and although I have not done much crafting I have done so much other lovely stuff, like working on my novel and doing creative writing courses. I have a couple more of those coming up in the summer, which I am really looking forward to.
I hope that you all had a good weekend, and have a good week ahead. Have fun, take care, stay safe and thanks for visiting.
Stitches of Time 
I’ve yet to meet anyone who’s retired who has the faintest idea of how they found time to work, so I’m glad to hear that the pattern holds true!
Yes, I genuinely thought I would have hours on end spare to craft, I have been doing a lot of different activities though including lots of exercise so that and reading have taken up many of my ‘spare hours’. I will have to get sorted though when I get back as have a Steampunk outfit to finish for July.
These are adorable and who doesn’t need a doughnut! X
Exactly, I love knitting the donuts, they are so cute and so quick to do!