Christmas Dinosaurs

For Christmas Mum, Dad and Nicky asked for knitted dinosaurs and I was only too happy to oblige.

Nicky wanted a dinosaur to go with her new car and specifically requested this colour combination - I was initially dubious but actually rather like the resulting critter.

Dad had no specific requests so I decided to make him one I thought looked cool and settled on the Stegosaurus. He's red because it's dad's favourite colour and I thought the co-coordinating brown spikes worked rather nicely.

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Mum got her Dino a bit early, for her birthday in November, and requested a 'proper dinosaur with moving arms and legs'. So I made her this little fellow.

Pocket Bear

Say Hello to Pocket Bear! 

For my birthday my godparents gave me some money to spend and I decided to invest in a few more knitting supplies.  I wanted to thank them so I decided to knit them a little gift and fell in love with this little fellow on Ravelry.  He's quite small but rather cute and I'm sure he will be very happy in his new home.

Pocket Bear on Ravelry

Spike the Ankylosaurus

Meet Spike. Spike is a herbivorous Ankylosaurus from the Cretaceous period and has large armoured plates on his back to protect him from nasty carnivores like Tyrannosauruses.  

Spike is a quiet sort of dinosaur who likes to bumble around in the undergrowth and hunt out tasty ferns but if he gets angry he can protect himself with his hefty tail clubs.

Spike has a Ravelry page here

A Friend for Flipper

Flipper finally has a friend; I will name him tomorrow... tonight sleep!

Flipper the Plesiosaur

Meet Flipper the Plesiosaur; were Flipper a fully grown dinosaur he would have been one of the largest marine predators alive measuring a massive 20 metres in length... but Flipper is just a baby so he's a bit smaller and measures about 20 cm from nose to tail!

Despite being aquatic by nature Flipper manages to look exceedingly cute when he tries to walk around on dry land, of course all the walking takes it's toll and he also likes to have a little sit down at regular intervals.

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Flipper is my first knitting project in about 14 years - I was given the amazing book Knitted Dinosaurs for Christmas and just couldn't resist all the gorgeous little monsters contained within.  I dashed straight to the (online) shops and bough knitting needles and wool and got stuck in making this little fellow.  It took a few false starts but about 15 hours later I had this gorgeous little dino.

He is knitted with Merino wool and is wonderfully soft to the touch, his back is decorated with semi-transparent sequins and his eyes are made from tiny little buttons and a bit of white felt.

Rob suggested I join Ravelry so he has a project page there too.