Materials: Leftover Knitpicks Comfy Worsted (75% Pima Cotton, 25% Acrylic) in Silver Sage and Marlin. Size 3 circular needles and DPNs. Pattern: Daphne and Delilah the Momma and Baby Monster from Danger Crafts.

Time: A couple of weeks.

Cost: Handmade items are priceless, you know.

Daphne and Delilah are a stash-busting present for a baby shower — it’s a cute pattern, and thematically appropriate.

Toys aren’t normally my favorite knitting genre, because working the fiddly bits (casting on 6 stitches in the round, for example) in cotton on too-small needles isn’t my favorite thing in the world. Besides that, however, this pattern was smooth sailing.

I bought a bunch of safety eyes from 6060 and I’m really pleased with them — they make for a really polished-looking finished product. Unfortunately, the only felt that I could find for the mouths was pretty chintzy and see-through, but what can you do? I put Pete in charge of cutting out the mouths and gluing them on, and I kind of like the resultant underbite.

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