Since I have a real liking for nature’s most peculiar, weird, mysterious or misunderstood underdogs I decided to design some of them for anyone who wants to get to know these natural weirdo’s a little better!

The sloth is a tree-dwelling animal from Central and South America, that comes in two variations: the two-toed (Choloepus sp.) and three-toed (Bradypus sp.) sloth. Funnily enough all sloths have three toes, but the variation is in the number of fingers.
In most languages, the word sloth translates as ‘lazy’ and it is true, that they are lackadaisical creatures that do very little besides sleeping all day! Even though sloths hang about upside down in trees most of their time, they are great swimmers and in water they can move three times faster than on land.
This knitted sloth is based on the looks of the three-toed sloth, it is equally adorable and might be just as lazy as the real thing!

This sloth was knitted on 2.25 mm double pointed needles (UK 13, US 1). I found a scrap of a shaggy, hairy yarn lying around, just perfect to knit the sloth in a caramel color.
Unfortunately, I can’t retrace the brand, however there are some brands out there that offer these so-called eyelash yarns. The face was done in strands of fallow, taupe, black, jet and beige yarn.

This model measures 18 cm from head to toes. It is an medium to advanced knit, that asks for some intarsia and short row knitting ad knitting both flat and in the round. Pipe cleaners can be used to fashion the claws.

Knit love, Viv