Are You Game for a Mystery Knitalong?

Somehow I missed that this happened last year, but for the second year in a row Marly Bird is doing a mystery knitalong (and crochetalong, if you’re into that sort of thing) for the Big Game, which if you’re not up on your football is this coming Sunday (Feb. 3).

Clues will be released once an hour, every hour, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern, and the project is something wearable that will require no more than 7 ounces of worsted weight yarn, which should be in a solid color, according to the details currently available.

Interested knitters can sign up for the event on Marly’s Facebook page, and visit the website linked above to get the clues as they are released.

There will be a grand prize package as well as other giveaways through the day for people who tag their projects on Instagram using the hashtag #GameDayMakeAlong. There will even be a Game Day bingo competition where you can win other prizes from Red Heart.

This sounds like a lot of fun (and may I say more fun than the football game itself is likely to be?). If you are planning to take part or did it last year I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo: Marly Bird.]

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I’ve been enjoying knit amigurumi animal patterns lately (see also: this adorable knit pigeon) and of course being a knitter I love llamas.

So when I saw this little llama pattern I knew I had to share it.

The appropriately named Llama patter from Annie Ahn calls for fingering weight yarn, and it uses two colors for the body and three for the little blanket. The pompom can be made to match or in another color. All of these parts take tiny amounts of yarn so you can use whatever scraps you have left over from socks or other projects and change colors whenever you need to.

It might also be fun to use some mohair or other fuzzy or textured yarn on this one to give your llama a different look. In all the project uses between 100 and 150 yards, or 91-137 m, of yarn and the llama comes out about 10 cm/4 inches tall.

The body of the llama is worked in one piece, so this project is suited to intermediate knitters or those who have comfort working in the round and with all those little pieces.

This one is made to be small so you can carry it around with you (it would be super cute on a keychain or as a zipper pull) but I think it would be a lot of fun to knit this in larger yarn, too, to make a bigger llama. You could even make a whole family in different sizes just by using different weights of yarn and corresponding needles.

The details are so cute, from the shaggy hair to its little accessories, but you could make it plain or change it up by knitting a tiny scarf or even working a little fair isle pattern on the legs or body. So many fun possibilities!

The pattern is available on Ravelry in English and Korean.

[Photo: Annie Ahn]

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