Meet a knitted hedgehog toy.

Finished just in the nick of time too. I cast the fun fur body on yesterday at a family event and finished it last night. Unfortunately I didn’t have the size four needles the pattern calls for with me so I just used the smallest ones I had: eights. Hehe so he’s a bit bigger than he was supposed to be. And naturally I’d decided to veer drastically from the pattern and not make legs. Then today I decided to make some legs anyway just use a different method than the pattern called for - making tiny little tubes on some double pointed needles. I also had to use a different yarn because the all the camel color yarn had been used up on the face because of the bigger needles but I found some interesting cotton acrylic stuff bought in the early Hobby Lobby yarn days. His face is awfully long. But hedgehog noses are pretty long! Also the stitches are pretty big so you can see the cotton stuffing in places. So he’s not perfect but he’s pretty dern cute. And the nephew I made it for got to watch me make most of it, which is really quite cool.

Now this and the hedgehog book weren’t for his birthday. They were his knit gift because Auntie Noelle wanted to knit something fun for him. And the niece’s knit gift was already done. And it fits perfectly too

So what we ended up doing was going to a local bookstore that’s going out of business because when we were there a few weeks ago I’d seen a Corduroy bear stuffed animal. I loved that book when I was little and I loved (and still do) stuffed animals. So the idea of giving him both Corduroy the bear and the book got me really excited. Fortunately they still had a Corduroy stuffed bear! Unfortunately they didn’t have the book so we had to go to a different store but we found it at another local bookstore. The going out of business bookstore also had, oh my god you should’ve heard me squeal when I saw this, a Harry the Dirty Dog stuffed toy! So naturally we had to get that too. And naturally they didn’t have the book in stock anymore. And neither did the other local bookstore where we got Corduroy’s book. But I called Barnes and Noble and they did have Harry the Dirty Dog so Cody picked it up on the way to work tonight. I wanted to get the Velveteen Rabbit too but he was too expensive even with 30% off the marked price.

So tomorrow the ‘phew will be getting three books and three stuffed toys that go with them. Pretty nice eh?