Return of the Lamb Blanket!

This being the exam season it only makes sense to start a major knitting project. Enter: return of the lamb blanket!

(It's a sequel because this is the second lamb set I have made - the first was for the handsome Roberto, official lamb gear model, shown above.)

I am going international with this set - it is being sent to a lucky kid in Brazil!

The blanket itself is fun to make - but putting the actual lambs on it is a pain in the lamb-pants. This is because the lambs are all duplicate-stitched (basically embroidered) after the blanket is done. And to avoid scaring the darling children with amputee lambs, all the lambs need to have a face, a body, and two feet. That means each of the 14 lambs has 8 ends to be worked in... I think you can smell what I'm cooking here: many fun-filled hours of stitching.

I call the blanket "Counting Sheep" which I give myself props for thinking up. Boo. Yah.

The name I thought up for the little matching hat, on the other hand, was not as well-recieved: "Mutton Helmet". While I think it's hilarious, there are those who think it's gross. Go figure.

So, blog readership, I will be very open to any bright hat-naming ideas that don't involve the "M" word.