The children's storybook, Phoebe's Sweater
, written by Joanna Johnson and illustrated by her husband Eric Johnson, tells the story of Phoebe Mouse and how she becomes a big sister. The book also includes knitting patterns: one for a child-size hooded sweater, one for a toy Phoebe Mouse, and one for a doll-size sweater that will fit the toy Phoebe Mouse as well as a 16-18 doll. The video above shows a Phoebe sweater being knitting in 80 seconds. Or more accurately, shows us 80 seconds out of of a day-long process of knitting the Phoebe sweater, but the 80 second stop motion video is quite well done and offers cute background effects, such as a last ball of yarn being delivered by a little vehicle made out of Lego. If you'd like to knit Phoebe's sweater for the little girl in your life, the pattern is available on Ravelry for $6(USD).
This is mesmerizing! Also, from the number of requests I've gotten from bare acquaintances that I knit things for them, this is what most people think it's actually like to knit a sweater.
ReplyDeleteSeeing this video reminded me of the time my niece, who was then about four, asked me, "Can you make me a sweater right now?"
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