Wednesday 22 October 2014

Knit in 80 Seconds



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).

2 comments:

  1. 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.

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  2. Seeing 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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