Choose between knitting the Bear or the Rabbit and use either weight 3 or 4 yarns.

This Teddy Bear is knit in the round and then arms, ears and legs sewn on. You can use four sizes of yarn, weights 5,4, 3 or 2 and vary the needle size used. Each weight yarn will result in a different sized bear.

This is based on the pattern by Bobbi Padgett found here:

This is based on the pattern by Bobbi Padgett found here: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sock-giraffe however I simplified it to be easier to knit for beginning knitters of my school knitting class.

Materials:

What lives under the couch and eats all the couch trail mix (otherwise known as all the cheerios, teddy grahams and jelly beans that the kids loose under the couch)? This couch monster of course!

This is based off of the pattern by Kimberly Kwon, http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/fuzzy-monster, but I wanted a much smaller monster that can be knit with leftover fun fur and eyelash yarn. I also don’t like how loose fun fur knits up, so did two strands at a time.

One day while I was telling my 7 year old son about the dead fish hat from Thelma Egberts I was making him he tells me, you should make it a Zombie Piranha hat. And then over the next day or so he keeps adding to it. It should have teeth, a neck cowl that also has teeth, removable guts (but make sure it is on a string so it can’t get lost), and...

Finished size: 14”

Updated 2016 for clarity, this was one of my first patterns, and while cute, could have been written better.

Size 11 circular, straight and DPN’s