Today I thought I would share the knitted Christmas soft toys I knitted for my children. These are so cute and knitted up quickly. I knit my children something each year for Christmas, this Christmas I wasn't sure what to knit for them and then when I saw the pattern for these I decided to create them.
[Start of image description for image above: A photo of a soft toy knitted owl and a knitted soft toy Rudolph. Underneath is a sage green rectangle with two white stripes and a white rectangle with the words "knitting journal". Below is the words "Christmas Soft Toys". End of image description.]
Project details
Project: Knitted Christmas Toys
Start date: December 2020
Finish date: December 2020
Status: Finished
Patterns used and the designers:
Pattern skills needed
- Cast on
- Cast off
- Knit
- Purl
- Stocking stitch
- Slip 1 stitch (S1) - the first steps to make the slip 1 stitch
- Knit two stitches together (K2tog)
- Knit into the front and back (Kfb) - knit through the front then follow the instructions for how to knit into the back of the stitch.
- Seed stitch
Materials
Yarn weight: DK/8Ply
Yarn used:
- Brown
- Red
- Green
- Black
Place yarn bought from:
- $2 shop
Needle sizes used:
- 3.75mm straight needles (30cm long)
Other tools used:
- Scissors
- Yarn needle/ tapestry needle
- Tape measure
- Stuffing
About the project
I decided to knit the owl but in browns as I had no cream yarn and had decided to use up my scrap bits of yarn to make these. I keep all scrap bits of yarn in a bag together and keep bits I cut off when stitching items up to another bag so I can use these as stuffing for toys for Children over 5 for safety reasons. I knitted the owls stripy vest in red and green to make it a bit more Christmas like then added a seed stitch scarf that was part of the Rudolph and penguin pattern but I thought it would like great on the owl.
[Start of image description: A Christmas table cloth with red squares and holly and berries. On top of the table cloth is a soft toy owl with a close up of the owls head. Showing the owls ears, eyes, nose, scarf and the start of the owls wings. End of image description.]
[Start of image description: A Christmas table cloth with red squares and holly and berries. On top of the table cloth is a soft toy owl with a close up of the owls body. Showing the owls vest, scarf and some of the owls wings. End of image description.]
[Start of image description: A Christmas table cloth with red squares and holly and berries. On top of the table cloth is a soft toy owl. End of image description.]
I knitted one of my children Rudolph the previous year so decided to make my youngest a Rudolph this year. While the pattern used a scarf I decided to finger knit a cord added a bell to it and tied it around Rudolph's neck like a collar.
[Start of image description: A Christmas table cloth with red squares and holly and berries. On top of the table cloth is a soft toy Rudolph with a close up of Rudolph's head. Showing Rudolph's, antlers, eyes, nose, mouth, collar with a bell on it and the start of Rudolph's body. End of image description.]
[Start of image description: A Christmas table cloth with red squares and holly and berries. On top of the table cloth is a soft toy Rudolph with a close up of the Rudolph's body. Showing Rudolph's collar with a bell and the body of Rudolph. End of image description.]
[Start of image description: A Christmas table cloth with red squares and holly and berries. On top of the table cloth is a soft toy Rudolph. End of image description.]
My children loved these soft toys I knitted them for Christmas and have been sitting down hugging them to listen to Christmas stories, Christmas movies. Next year I might knit the Robin and Penguin that are also part of the pattern. What did you knit as gifts for Christmas?
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[Start of image description for above image: a sage green rectangle with a white rectangle at the top with the words "knitting journal". Underneath is the words "Christmas Rudolph and Owl Soft Toys" with two white stripes. Underneath is a photo of a knitted Rudolph on the left on top of a Christmas table cloth and on the right at the top is a photo of Owl's head on top of a Christmas table. At the bottom right is a photo of Owl's body on top of a Christmas table cloth. End of image description.]
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Happy Knitting and hope you have a magickal week. I'll post another project next month, you can take a look at Arjaye's knitting journal for more knitting project posts like this one.
[Start of image description: Arjaye's signature with two toadstools in between the letter j and the letter y. Next to it is a fairy with blue hair, a green wreath headband, blue lips and yellow wigs, she is wearing a sage green dress. The fairy sitting on top of a yellow toadstool with blue dots and blue underneath the toadstool. Next to the fairy is a black cat holding a turquoise ball of yarn. End of image description.]
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