Pillowface Dog

posted July 20, 2009

Here is Elle’s new Pillowface Dog which I made so she could have a pillowface at school naptime. Reports come back daily that she is among the non-napping crowd, but no one seems to mind. I tried in vain to felt the ears. Apparently this kind of yarn (worsted weight? It’s from a sheep farm called Christopher’s in Maine and I bought it in 1991) doesn’t felt. Alas.

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