Wild and Woolly Knitted Animals: A Naturalist's Notebook, by Sara Elizabeth Kellner* (Stackpole Books, $24.95, PB 176pp, 2022) Review by Skye Anderson.
Do you like animals? Do your kids like animals (what kids don't?)? Do they have enough 'stuffies' to play with but are they teddy bears and puppy dogs rather than 'the real thing'? Wouldn't they love to play with a prairie dog, a rainbow trout, a badger, a bald eagle or another wild and woolly animal?
Author and designer Sara Elizabeth Kellner has crafted a one-of-a-kind knitting pattern book for you (and your kids) with instructions for 25 cute-as-a-button yet realistic animals - some from your backyard and others from the UK or Africa. But, more than just a knitting book, Wild and Woolly Animals also includes intricate color drawings and facts about the animals themselves with paw prints (tracks) in the background - simply incredible detailed drawings by her son Pat (photo on page 164)(sort of) like the timber wolf below. After all, the book's subtitle is A Naturalists's Notebook.
And here are three wolf 'stuffies.'
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| Realistic wolf 'stuffies' |
As a matter of fact, I would simply love to be able to purchase some of the animal drawings which introduce each pattern!
But first, I need to work on my 'zoo': I think I'll make a chimp or the ever popular hedgehog or maybe an Asian elephant mama and baby or. . . . maybe start with a family of friendly rats!
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*The author can be reached at RabbitHoleKnits.com - and check out her first book, Victorian Housecats to Knit, reviewed yesterday here.
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