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Terri Reinhart spent 18 years teaching kindergarten at the Denver Waldorf School. She now enjoys spending time making brooms, felting, knitting, bookbinding, painting, and filling up the house with various craft supplies. She is probably the only woman who has ever asked her husband for 50 pounds of broomcorn for her birthday. She also enjoys writing because, as she says, “It helps me to process all the crazy wonderful things in life without screaming or hitting anything.”

Her husband, Chris, is very patient.

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Wednesday
Feb112009

Things to knit that you would never imagine knitting

I figured that I should add these websites to this page. There are patterns out there for knitted items that are unusual, to say the least.  I doubt that you would use any of these in a Waldorf Kindergarten.  I just enjoy the creativity!  There are some patterns that are too "out there" for me!

But here are a few to enjoy:

http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2008/08/how_to_knit_a_dissected_rat.html

http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2008/01/dissected_fiber_frog.html

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/10/strange-knits-and-yarn-monsters.html

http://knitty.com/ISSUEfall02/PATTveganfox.html

http://www.craftycrafty.tv/2007/05/scary_knitted_animals.html

http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=91821907@N00&format=rss_200

I just showed these pictures to a couple of eighth grade boys and received their approval.  Unfortunately, with just a few exceptions, the patterns are not online, but have to be purchased.  I suspect, however, that with just a little trial and error, most of these could be figured out by other knitters.  The Vegan Fox pattern is online and I am hoping to make one of these soon. 

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