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April 14, 2003
Foxy Woxy
My sister-in-law Cynthia, a quite accomplished knitter, recently taught me to knit. I had to learn when I saw the Vegan Fox Stole in Knitty and decided my sister Ariel required it. I had a hard time finding the exact yarns, so I bought the kit sold by Fuzzy Galore, in the Savannah color scheme.
This was my first knitting project, so I was pretty happy that it looked even close. There seems to be an error in the pattern at the transition from tail to body that caused a switch in which side the knits and the purls are on, so my body curled the wrong way (although it was easy enough to sew it right anyway and the yarn's so fuzzy you can hardly tell). I changed the legs, too, because my I-cord didn't look right. Instead I made little rectangles and sewed them into tubes, cinching up the bottoms with a drawstring. I also added claws, since what kind of fox stole doesn't have claws? They are little claw-shaped beads I found after searching every bead store I came across for 2 weeks. (I eventually found them at that bead store on University in Palo Alto, in a giant mixed bowl of venetian beads.)
I grew rather attached to FoxyWoxy. I started wearing him around the house, and dreaming about him moving around. Mark thought it was a little weird. Finally, I shipped him off to Ariel, who seems fond of him, too. She's taken a silly idea to its silly conclusion in The Adventures of FoxyWoxy.
Posted under Knitting at April 14, 2003 08:32 PM