Eat your carrots please by Meagheen Ryan

Eat your carrots please

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Knitting
November 2013
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
8 stitches and 10 rows = 1 inch
in stockinette stitch
US 2 - 2.75 mm
35 - 40 yards (32 - 37 m)
infant
English
Discontinued. This digital pattern is no longer available online.

When you were little with hair the colour of flames your brothers told you that your hair was red as you ate too many carrots, you refused for months to eat a single carrot no matter how prepared. The carrot top, tomato head and assorted names your brothers bestowed upon you were said with affection. It took time but you realized your hair of flames was just one thing that made you an individual. The lesson behind this my dear is people often choose to slag you about the thing they most wish they had and some do it just because they don’t know how to be kind with words.. So teach your children if someone teases them about something , that it is ok, and it is ok to hurt, but what it is not ok to do is pass on the cruelness. These little thumbless mitten are perfect for the little baby and the first of a series of 3