Loved the Neil Gaiman book and then the animated movie. I thought the images of the black cat, weird jumping mice and button key would look great on a pair of mittens.

• Coraline desktop photoshopped, knitpro’d, then rejiggered by hand

• CO 50 sts

• soft black aran makes cushy cat against rough dense heather

• duplicate-stitched whites of eyes; probably shoulda fair-isled it

• also wished I’d placed key more to upper left; chart changed to reflect that

• raffle mittens won by Gerry