This evening, while watching poldark I quickly made up this cute little felt llama. My sister is feeding rather under the weather, with labyrinthitis and 3 children to home school, so I wanted to make something for her so she at least has some happy mail.
It’s from a kit by the make arcade and its quick and easy to do. I Like that you get templates, so if you like a design you can just get more felt and make another one! I hope she likes it!
Over the last week or so I’ve also been working on this windmill shawl, which is now quite a repetitive pattern of 2 alternating rows. I’m not sure what I think of patterns where the rows get progressively longer though… It feels a bit disheartening.
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Love the llama. It will cheer her up I am sure.
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Thank you so much. I hope so… It’s going in the post today along with some other little goodies
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Very cute llama! I just love its necklace!
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Thank you. Originally the design had it wearing pyjamas, which I didn’t like. The necklace was part of the pyjamas, but at the end I thought I would add just that part to add some colour, and I’m glad I did!
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I especially love the llama’s eyelashes! Your poor sister. But this is a lovely gift. As for the windmill shawl, I think it’s beautiful!
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Thank you so much… The shawl has grown a little bit since you saw it, but not very much!! Aren’t the eyelashes super cute?! I liked them too
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I love this Llama it’s so cute! and I agree with you on shawls that get bigger and bigger, I almost alway lose interest and they end up much smaller than intended 😅 The way I normally counter that is if I have a set amount of yarn I’m using, then I know I can stop when the skein is finished and it helps to keep me motivated.
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This is just a one skein shawl… But the skein suddenly seems awfully big! The annoying thing is I quite like to finish a row. I need to change my approach so I am happy with stopping à crochet session part way through a row… Then it might grow a bit quicker! Thank you for your lovely comment about the llama
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Your skein must be huge though! Are you using a clasp stitch marker? It might make it easier to stop mid-row if you know your work doesn’t risk to unravel.
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I guess it’s pretty big! It’s certainly big enough to make a shawl from. I do use clap stitch markers, which were a revelation when I discovered them! I think my issue is that I like things to feel completed… Silly really!
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Cute llama!
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Thank you so much
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Cute llama, and I really like your shawl.
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Thank you. It’s funny,as I’m a bit unsure about how the colours in the yarn look now it’s crocheting up. I think I prefer blocks of colour rather than splodges!
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The llama is adorable. What a super cute idea. 🙂
Lovely shawl, looks pretty and easy. Have fun making it.
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Thank you. My sister liked her llama and other little goodies I sent. The shawl is super easy, so it really ought to be growing quicker!!
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that llama is so very cute! I love the shawl colors as well!
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Oh thank you. I loved making the llama… So simple but so cute 😊
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I love the llama eyelashes, what a sweet little face! I bet it made your sister smile 🙂 I usually hate patterns like that, when it eventually feels like every row takes forever *yawn*. I didn’t get that with my virus shawl though so maybe it depends on the pattern
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My sister did like it and the llama is now attached to her bag! I think I Maybe just need to put something on netflix and the rows will go quicker!
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