Hedgehogs

This is Francis, he is an english garden hedgehog who lives with my friend Erik in North Carolina.

It had been a pretty boring summer until his little cousin Roz came to visit, Roz is from Africa.

Anouther (somewhat larger) guest of Erik's was in rather a bad mood, so Erik suggested that as it was a nice sunny afternoon every one should pile in the car and go for a ride.

Click here for a photo essay of OUR TRIP around Wake Forest, North Carolina. Click on the first thumbnail for larger vesions of the pics. (You can read more about hedgehogs here.)

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The hedgehogs were knit by the bad tempered person from a pattern purchased from Two Swans Yarns . The pattern is "Huggable Hedgehogs" by Debbie Radtke, for Fiber Trends - Hand Knit Designs. There is a squirrle pattern, but that will have to wait till next summer.


this is the stuff you make hedgies from, feltable worsted yarn, eyelash yarn, a 16inch circular needle and some straight needles. I used plastic eyes with shanks in brown and solid black.

This is "Roz's" tummy and face before the stitches have been picked up to knit the spikes.

below are pics of "Gwen" as I knit her, showing the pick up, short rows and what she looked like after felting, before finishing (she took 3 days to dry, it's been raining in Raleigh).