COME AND SEE US AT STITCH AND CRAFT AT OLYMPIA
From Thursday 15th March to Sunday 18th at Olympia, we’ll be there, come and see us, bring us your questions and comments, bring us your dogs and cats, we’ll have a good selection with us, plus books, which we’ll be delighted to sign, and for the first 50 customers, a free knitting bag too.
Here’s the [...]
A TRIBUTE TO UGGIE the canine Kenneth Branagh
We felt we had to make our own tribute to Uggie the undisputed star of The Artist, so here he is with the oscar that he won’t be receiving, so we’ve made him his own.
Here he is again performing his famous lying on his back trick.
and again on the red carpet.
You can make your own [...]
VARIOUS IMPORTANT THINGS grovelling apology and Staffie sightings
We are sorry to have to admit that there are several mistakes in Best in Show knit your own Cat, or if you are American, just Knit your own Cat. We checked and re-checked the patterns and so did our publishers, but a few have slipped through, spotted by the eagle eyed, Karol and Gill, [...]
KNITTED STAFFIE FOR BATTERSEA DOG’S HOME
We have just been working on a particularly exciting commission. Battersea Dog’s Home asked us to make a life-sized Staffordshire Bull Terrier, for their ‘Staffies they’re softer than you think’ campaign which was launched last week.
Here are some photographs of the work in progress:
And here it is finished – looking, as I’m sure you’ll agree, [...]
CAT AND DOG CLINIC
Need advice on how to knit your own dog or cat? Come and talk to Joanna Osborne at the City Books 25th Birthday Festival at the Old Market, Hove on Sunday 16th October from 2-3 p.m. If you bring a photo of your own dog or cat, Jo will help you to create a replica, [...]
NEW MOVIE
Follow this link to have a look at our new movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKkciGMC_TA It’s another stop motion extravaganza, but this time incorporating complex sounds and special effects and introducing….cats. It has 6 views at the moment, so with your help we can make it go viral, like the sneezing panda, smirking labrador etc
KNITTED CRUFTS
Last Sunday Jo had the honour of judging the first ever( we presume) knitted Crufts
Held at the Herne Hill Bookshop, who have been tremendously supportive of Best in Show, it was a magnificent British occasion, one of those things we do so well, like royal weddings, it had all the necessary components, gazebos, bunting, cupcakes [...]
PETS WIN PRIZES – ONLINE DOG SHOW
You can now enter your knitted dog in an online dog show. Our publishers kindly created a website dedicated to our book, it’s www.knityourowndog.com have a look.
There are prizes for the winning dogs in the online dog show, so hurry to enter now.
Or if you are nearby,the Herne Hill Bookshop in Railton Rd next to Herne [...]
another error in Best in Show and/or knit your own dog
This has been spotted by Nancy Little in the Border Collie pattern
P140 RIGHT SIDE OF BODY
P8cr,p4bl,K3cr,inccr.
Should be p
Thank you Nancy for pointing that out.
PROBLEMS SEWING UP BULLDOG
For those of you who are having problems putting the bulldog toether, I’m sorry the instructions are very sketchy. So here’s a diagram.
Basically, once you have sewn the 3 sections of the nose together, you need to fold it in once, about 2/3rds of the way from the tip, then fold it in on itself [...]
knit your own dog no1 in Amazon dog care
Yes, it’s true, for a brief moment we toppled Cesar Milan, God of dog care from his number one spot, with out little book of knitted dogs.
Cats next, out in the Autumn, and after that Best in show 2 – more dogs, do let us know what dogs you feel should be included.
KNIT YOUR OWN DOG PUBLISHED IN USA on feb 23rd
Our book Best in Show, has been published in the USA with the new title of Knit Your Own Dog, don’t buy it twice, it’s the same book.
It’s been given a terrific boost by being mentioned in both Entertainment Weekly, and People. We were featured in People many years ago with our red sheep jumper, [...]
ERRORS IN BEST IN SHOW knit your own dog
Yes I’m afraid so, however many times we checked the patterns over and we really did many many times, there are one or two errors, so we thought we would come clean and publish them:
PATTERN CORRECTIONS
ALTERATIONS IN RED
Whippet
Page 20 Left Side of Body
Row 14: P16sh, p16sn, p2togsn (33 sts)
Row 16: P18sh p3sn, p2togsn (22 sts)
Labrador
Page [...]
BEST IN SHOW knit your own dog….the movie
Here as a tribute to the late great Oliver Postgate is Best in Show the movie – follow this link to youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRuSk8AuW7c
knit your own dog
Best in Show will be published in the US in February 2011 as Knit your Own Dog
This is what it will look like – utterly lovely.
Hurry Kate Middleton if you’d like a free sheep jumper pattern, offer ends November 20th.
FREE TICKETS TO COUNTRY LIVING CHRISTMAS FAIR
We are offering 5 free tickets to The Country Living Christmas Fair to the first 5 people to contact us with the wittiest caption for this photograph of our knitted dogs. Here they are all ready to go off to our stand J50 where we will be selling them, our book Best in Show- knit your [...]
free anti-firework dog balaclava pattern
As bonfire night is nearly here we thought you might appreciate a pattern to protect your dog’s sensitive little ears from the hellish noise of fireworks. Just email us and we will send it to you as a PDF.
You can also use it for cats/ children/ TV presenters if they also have sensitive little ears.
knitted dogs
The Afghan Hound
We have had many requests to see some more of the dogs in our book Best in Show knit your own dog, so here are some more, more to come later.
We are showing at Origin in Spitalfields Market until Wednesday 29th Sept, do come and see us, we have books, kits and finished [...]
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