Welcome To The Zoo🐨🦁🐴🐰🦃🦊

Lenox's zoo, that is🐨🦁🐴🐰🦃🦊

Hello lovely lovelies, lovely friends♡  A lovely welcome to you this Sunday evening♡ Well, it is here. =)

My woolly experiment is DONE!! An experiment?? Yes, this woolly blanket was definitely an experiment. Having never read, nor indeed understood a crochet pattern before it wasn't a certainty that this woolly crochet undertaking would be a triumph. Nor was it a given that there would be an acceptable outcome. This crochet woolly was definitely a trial and error pretty and I must say, a giant learning curve. 

Well, I'm here to say after many mistakes and missteps I'm doing a victory lap (around the garden......around the autumnal hydrangeas). =) All the critters in Lenox's zoo are resting happily atop the woolly blanket and ALL are happily playing together with all their friends. Each critter whispered to me which pal they wanted to be their play buddy and rest next to forevermore. One would be forgiven if one supposed that all the critters might be a little askance of Lenny Lion or perhaps to a lesser extent Faelynn Fox being a hop, skip and a jump away, but nope, in the land of make believe, all these critters are the very best of friends, boisterously rollicking and frolicking and getting up to all manner of hijinks all day long. They are a happy little zoo.

Meet Harvey Horse and Wilber Worm. I must say Harvey Horse is a handsome fellow and just between you and me, he's my favourite.

Lennox's blanket was crocheted in Patons Bluebell 5ply pure wool. It measures 85cm x 115cm; a perfect size for a crib. Perfect too, for a wee child to wrap themselves in, for a woolly hug. Each granny square is 15cms.  I followed the book, 3D Animal Granny Squares,  for some of the animals but after several attempts, some of my animals didn't resemble anything like the picture so I fell down the YouTube rabbit hole to see what other animals I could find. And I must say, I found a lot. Thank the Good Lord for YouTube tutorials! Another thing which I changed from the book is each animal is crocheted separately and then stitched onto the granny squares. Each animal has a lot of separate bits...eyes, snouts, beaks, ears etc which caused the back of each animal to be a messy eyesore. Sewing the finished animal to the grannies makes for a neat back with no fugly bits to be seen. My persnickety self is very happy about this.

Pete and I are off to Hobart next weekend to holiday with Lennox, my daughter and son-in-law. I cannot wait. I hope wee Lenox loves his woolly zoo. A woolly blanket where oodles of conservations and wild and playful imaginations will be enjoyed as he snuggles down under his woolly zoo. So, so many delightful conversations and stories of animal escapades and adventures within Lenox's zoo♡ Bye lovely lovelies, lovely friends♡ Thank you for your sweet visit♡

Until the next time......