Idle hands are the devil’s toolkit, and with a little over two months to Christmas I thought I’d keep busy by knitting toys for the grandchildren’s stockings.
Bobbles the clown, my first project! I read through the pattern and began to feel motivated it was an easy pattern that I could knit in no time at all!
My only problem was that instead of increasing and decreasing on every row as the pattern stated, I did so on every alternate row. (I always know better!) This meant that instead of being a short clown mine was twice the length. Okay, so he’ll be a tall clown, Harlequins are tall! Other than that the project went very well. Sewing the various pieces together was a bit tricky though, especially while watching a movie on TV. Bobbles had clubbed feet! To undo the sewing I used one of those stitch-loosening things one buys at the haberdashery. I poked my finger and managed to bleed all over the left foot. No matter! After a good rinse there were no visible stains.
Then came the stuffing bit, not too much or he’ll be too fat. Not too little or he’ll look anorexic! Once his body was perfect I started with his little face. I sewed on his eyes, embroidered his lips and stuck a bright red nose in the middle of his face.
My masterpiece completed I proudly showed it off to Hubby who simply smiled and nodded his approval.
The two babies Matthew and Sonja were visiting and I couldn’t wait to see their reaction so I ran to the spare bedroom and pulled Bobbles out of the cupboard and hid him behind my back.
“Tra-la-la” I sang and proudly showed it to them. They took one look at my beautiful clown and their little lips began to tremble as the tears spurted out of their eyes and they simultaneously let out an ear-deafening wail.
“They hated Bobbles” I thought sadly and turned the clown around to face me. He looked very familiar and quite scary all of a sudden. Then it hit me! He looked almost exactly like Stephen Kings “IT!”
“Yikes!” I yelled and ran back to the spare bedroom where I shoved the clown right at the back of the cupboard. “I’ll keep him for Guy Fawkes and burn him,” I told myself while running to my front gate with a permanent marker. I took down the sign that read “Beware of the dog” and changed it to, “Never mind the dog… Beware of the Clown!”
At the moment I am knitting a “Noddy” so please hold thumbs that he doesn’t turn out like Stephen King’s Chucky!
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