from the patterns at mochimochiland, i knit an elephant. an elephant! i like elephants. they're big and grey and they have a trunk. i imagine it must be lovely, touching the tip of a trunk - i imagine it to be soft and tender and... well, elephant-like.



this particular specimen i gave to my cousin - she chose me as her confirmation sponsor and i try to give her little gifts every now and then. she got this elephant last christmas, but i had forgotten to take a picture of him and when we visited with her family for easter and i saw him sitting there, i asked mr. hippo to snap a few quick pictures of him, hiding in a potted plant, as is fit for easter, i am sure.

i knit fant, as he is aptly named, from what i think is sock yarn from my grandmother's stash. my granny moved out of her house a few years back and when she moved, she gave to me a few books that had belonged to her husband, two candlesticks and what yarn she had left - it must have been bought a long time ago, because i can't remember seeing granny knit. i do remember a pullover she knit for me, though - it was a bright fuchsia colour and it had a picture of the aristocats knit in at the front, in a lot of colours. it must have been really difficult to make. i would love to knit something like it again. our granny used to crochet, mostly curtains and doilies, i remember it well, she kept her work in a little wicker basket on the kitchen window sill next to the radio. she doesn't do it anymore, she can't see well enough nor work the tiny hook through tiny hoops anymore, but it remember her crocheting and sewing very often. i liked the idea of knitting something for my cousin from the yarn that used to belong to our grandmother.