Knit your own zoo :

Title:

Knit your own zoo : easy-to-follow patterns for 24 animals / Sally Muir & Joanna Osborne.

Personal Author:

Muir, Sally,

Call Number:

746.432 M9533.1

ISBN:

9781579129606

Physical Description:

176 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 17 x 22 cm.

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

Giant anteater -- Armadillo -- Fruit bat -- Ring-tailed lemur -- Brown bear -- Wolf -- Gray seal and pup -- Polar bear -- Penguin -- Crocodile -- Koala -- Chimpanzee -- Lion -- Leopard -- Tiger -- Zebra -- Mandrill -- Camel -- Meerkat -- Elephant -- Giraffe -- Panda -- Orangutan -- Kangaroo and Joey.

Summary:

Knitting patterns for 24 wild animals. There is something here for everyone, with instructions for knitting spots, stripes, fur, scales, trunks, wings and beaks! The animals are surprisingly easy to make. It will only take a few evenings to create yourself an exotic pet or reproduce your favorite species. These knitted animals in miniature are much easier to look after than the real things - they don't need feeding, they won't make a mess and they take up hardly any room!

Subject Term:

Knitting -- Patterns.

Stuffed animals (Toys)

Soft toy making.

Animals in art.

Added Author:

Osborne, Joanna,

Publication:

New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2014

Format:

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Summary

From the authors of the beloved and best-selling Knit Your Own Dog , Knit Your Own Cat , and Knit Your Own Dog: The Second Litter comes Knit Your Own Zoo ! With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for 24 animals, it's an irresistible guide to knitting a single exotic pet or an entire stuffed menagerie.

What could be better than a cuddly koala or a long-necked giraffe to call your own? Knit Your Own Zoo includes patterns for both, as well as a tiger, crocodile, penguin, meerkat, elephant, armadillo, panda, a kangaroo and her joey, and 14 other delightful creatures. The animals are surprisingly easy to make; with a few evenings of work, you can have a covetable companion for life. Given a week, you could be charging admission to your own nature park!

Along with the knitting patterns, Sally and Joanna also include brief descriptions of the various species and offer tips and advice on sewing up and embellishing the animals.

And, of course, these knitted animals are much easier to look after than the real things? They don't eat, won't make a mess, and are legal to keep in your home.

Author Notes

Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne run their own knitwear business, Muir and Osborne (www.muirandosborne.co.uk). They have a shop in London and export their knitwear to stores in the U.S., Japan, and Europe, including Barneys New York, Saks Fifth Avenue, Liberty, and The Cross. They won the U.K. Fashion Export Small Business Award in 2002, and several pieces of their knitwear are in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Their previous books include Knit Your Own Dog, Knit Your Own Cat, Knit Your Own Dog: The Second Litter , and Knit Your Own Zoo .

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Muir and Osborne (Knit Your Own Dog, Knit Your Own Cat) have once again assembled a collection of irresistible knitted animals. This book does exactly what it says it does, offering patterns for a veritable menagerie of miniature creatures. Patterns detail familiar animals such as the elephant and crocodile, as well as such less familiar animals as the anteater or meerkat. With the clever use of pipe cleaners, these animals can stand, sit, sprawl, or, in the case of the Fruit Bat, hang from the rafters. Fun details include fringe of all types, from lion manes to orangutan fur, and color work that replicates zebra stripes, leopard spots, and even mandrill coloring, among others. Two mother-and-child duos are especially darling: a seal and pup, and a kangaroo with removable joey. Patterns require focus but are, as described in the book's subtitle, easy to follow. Devotees of knitted creatures will find a lot to love in this collection. (Feb. 14) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Library Journal Review

Muir and Osborne (Knit Your Own Cat) return with a collection of 25 patterns for realistic knitted zoo animals, ranging from the typical (elephant, giraffe, lion) to the unusual (mandrill, fruit bat, anteater). For each project, the authors provide step-by-step written directions for knitting and finishing and a color photograph of the finished creature, as well as some basic facts about the animals. The yarn used was selected to highlight details of the animals, and the authors make good use of fuzzy mohair yarns to approximate fur, slubby tweed yarn to suggest variation of color, and rustic wool to add texture. Knowledge of inter-mediate to advanced knitting techniques, such as stranded and intarsia color-work, knitting in the round, and increasing and decreasing, is assumed, although some basic directions are provided. VERDICT Knitters looking for animal patterns that are more realistic than amigurumi will appreciate the detail in these patterns. The finished animals are suitable for play or for decoration. (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.