This little guy was hand sewn using an old cashmere pants and sweater set that had long outlived its usefulness. In fact it was full of moth holes. So I washed it in the washing machine to try to felt the holes closed, but that didn't happen. It did shrink up a bit, but the holes were everywhere still. When I got ready to do this, I washed it one more time, but it still wasn't really felted. I cut out the pieces that could be salvaged, and boiled them in the spaghetti pot on the stove, to be sure that no little moth-babies were still alive. I dried the pieces in the clothes dryer for one last attempt at felt, but it was still quite soft and not very thick.
I traced a picture of a knit bunny from Last Minute Knitted Gifts as my pattern and adapted that idea into a flat rather than rounded shape, and I drew the face. Then I just hand-stitched the whole thing.
Kristen received it on a very tired Saturday evening after several stressful weeks in a row, and she fell in love with his sad little face.
And I still have enough pieces of semi-felted cashmere to make maybe a kitty cat!
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