HOBBY CLUB

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 226, 20 June 1936, Page 25

HOBBY CLUB

Peter Bunny Is a cudcllesome fellow and a good companion for baby or small brother or sister. He can stand any amount of rough play and never hits back! Moreover, he can also be unstuffed and washed when he gets too grubby. If you have no small friends to make him for, perhaps yo ucould make him for our Sunshine Box, which opens next week, and which helps supply the children of the Health Camp with toys at Christmas time.

MATERIALS: 2oz. of grey teazle wool and loz. of white: ft pair of*No. 12 steel knitting needles; 1 yard of pink ribbon; 2 black shoe-buttons; kapok for stuffing: a few white bristles from a very soft brush; and a few yards of fine pink wool. MEASUREMENTS: Length from head to base. 12 inches—including ears, 15 inches. TENSION: GJ stitches to 1 inch iu width.

Knit into the backs ot the cast-on stitches to tighten. The bunny is worked throughout in plain knitting. Reinember that it takes two rows of plain knitting to make one ridge. Begin at the base at one side of the toy. Row 1: Using grey wool, cast on 38 stitches, and knit 6 rows. Row 7: Knit first two stitches together. Row 8: Knit. Repeat last two rows once. Row 11: Cast off 12 stitches for leg. and knit two rows on remaining stitches. Row 13: Increase one stitch (by knitting twice into same stitch, first into front, then into back, before slipping off needle). Row 14: Knit. Repeat last two rows three times. Row 21: Knit 12 rows. Row 33. Knit two stitches together, knit to end. Row 34: Knit. Repeat last two rows twice. Row 39: Knit two stitches together, knit to end. Row 40: Knit last two stitches together. Repeat last two rows once. Row 43: Knit

twice into first stitch, knit to end. Row 55: Increase in last stitch. Row 45: Knit 1(1 rows. TO MAKE THE ARMHOLE: Beginning at the same side as stitches that were cast off for leg. proceed thus : Row 61: Knit 7 stitches, slip these < stitches on to a safety-pin, cast off the next 5 stitches for armhole, knit remaining 11 stitches. Row 62: Knit 15 rows. Row 77. Increase in first stitch. Knit to end. Row 78: Increase in last stitch. Put remaining 13 stitches on to a safety-pin. Row 79: Slip the 7 stitches from tlie safety-pin on to a knitting needle, Join wool to where the 5 stitches were cast off. and knit 13 rows. Row 92: Knit two stitches together. Knit to end. Row 93: Knit. Row 94: Increase in last stitch. Row 95: Increase tn first stitch. Row 96: Knit 8 stitches. Slip the 13 stitches from the pin on to the knitting needle and knit them. Row 97: Knit. Row 98: Knit two stitches together, knit to end. Row 99: Knit 3 rows. Row 106: Increase in first, centre and last stitches; Row 107: Increase in last stitch. Row 108. Increase in first

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stitch. Row 109: Knit. Repeat last 2 rows 4 times. Row 118: Knit 8 rows. Row 126: Knit first two stitches together. Row 127: Kuit. Repeat last two rows 3 times. Row 134: Knit first and last two stitches together. Row 135: Knit. Repeat last two rows once. Row 138: Knit first, centre and last two stitches together. Repeat last row twice Cast off. Knit anoher piece exactly the same. INSIDE OF THE LEGS AND CHEST: Begin at the base. Row 1: Using white wool, east on 43 stitches and kuit 6 rows. Row 7: Knit first and last two stitches together. Row 8: Knit. Repeat last two rows once. Row 11: Cast off 12 stitches for leg and finish row. Row 12: Same as row 11. Row 13: Increase in first and last stitches. Row 14: Knit- Repeat last two rows 3 times. Row 21: Knit 12 rows. Row 33: Knit first and last two stitches together. Row 34. Knit. Repeat last two rows twice. Row 39: Knit first and last two stitches together. Repeat last row 3 times. Row 43: Increase in first and last stitches. Row 44: Knit. Repeat last two rows once. Row 47: Knit 14 rows. Row (11: Knit first and last two stitches together. Row 62: Knit 7 rows. Row 69: Knit first and last two stitches together. Row 70: Knit 3 rows. Repeat last 4 rows three limes. Row 85: Knit first and last two stitches together. Cast off remaining 3 stitches.

THE FORELEGS: Row 1: Using grey wool, cast on 8 stitches, and knit one row. Row 2: Increase in first and last stitches. Row 3: Knit. Repeat last 2 rows 6 times. Row 16: Knit 8 rows. Row 24: Kuit first and last two stitches together. Row 25: Knit 7 rows. Repeat last 8 rows twice. Row 48: Knit first, centre, and last two stitches together. Repeat last row once. Cast off. Knit another piece exactly the same.

THE HEAD-PIECE: Row 1: Using grey wool, east on 3 stitches and knit 4 rows. Row 5: Increase in first and last stitches. Row 6: Knit 5 rows. Repeat last 6 rows 3 times. Row 29: Knit 16 rows. Row 45. Knit first and last two stitches together. Row 46: Knit 7 rows. Repeat last 8 rows twice. Row 69: Knit first and last two stitches together. Row 70: Knit 3 rows. Cast off.

THE EARS. Row 1: Using grey wool, cast on 5 stitches and knit two rows. Row 3: Increase in first and last stitches. Row 4: Knit 3 rows. Repeat last 4 rows twice. Row 15: Knit 20 rows. Row 35: Knit. Repeat last two rows twice. Cast off. Knit another grey and two white ears in the same way.

THE TAIL. Row 1: Cast on 3 stitches with grey wool, and knit 4 rows. Row 5: Increase iu first and last stitches. Row 6: Knit 5 rows. Repeat last 6 rows 3 times. Row 29: Knit 10 rows. Row 39: Knit two stitches together in centre of row. Row 40. Knit. Repeat last two rows twice. Cast off. Knit another piece in white wool. PIECE FOR BASE: Row 1: Using grey wool, cast on 14 stitches, and knit 24 rows. Row 25: Knit first and last two stitches together. Repeat last row once. Cast off.

MAKING UP BUNNY: Brush up each piece, of knitting with a wire brush. Sew tlie two large pieces of grey knitting together. beginning at the neck to the bottom of the back, then from the neck over the face to the nose. Sew in the headpiece, placing tlie cast-on edge to the nose. Sew along the face over the top ot the head to the neck. Sew up the arms and sew them into the armholes. Sew in the front ot the body from the neck along the sides of tlie body and legs. Sew in the piece for the base, leaving two inches open at the neck for stuffing.

Turn the work, stuff well with kapok, using a knitting needle to press the stuffing well into tlie head, arms and legs. Press the kapok well into the body to make the bunny look a good shape.

Sew up the opening at the back which was left for the stuffing. Sew the two pieces of tail together and stitch to the body. • Thread a darning needle with wool and'stiteh to the body. Thread a darning needle with wool, and darn up and . down several times on the inside of eacli piece of ear. This will help to make them stand upright. Sew one grey and one wlnta ear together and stitch in position

■»—Make the nose, -mouth, and claws with fine pink wool. Sew in the black shoebuttons for eyes. Use soft white bristles for whiskers and eyebrows. Tie ribbon round the bunny's neck.