Knitted doves ...

This blog does seem very knitting orientated at the moment.  Never mind, only 6 days until our car boot sale season begins again and I can start collecting lovely things to paint. 

In the meantime, I want to show you a little idea I've been working on for a while.  Last summer I saw a lovely wedding decoration with doves, ribbons, etc - you get the idea - and began to think about knitting birds (I've already shown you my knitted blue tit pattern). I searched the web and found quite a few patterns but they didn't quite fit what I had in mind.  So I began to try to work out my own pattern.   I went through many attempts and produced objects in all shapes and sizes, many of which resembled fish.  A little touch of Darwinism there, I thought.  Anyway, eventually I came up with this pattern for knitted doves which, I think, would make a lovely wedding decoration or gift. 

Knitted dove wedding decoration

I've made them to hang and added Congratulations ribbon ...

Knitted bird

But, if you added a small peg underneath, they could perch and the ribbon could say Good Luck, Thank You, Best Wishes, With Love ....

Knitted dove

And why stop at two?  Have a string of doves holding ribbons all round a room.  That's an idea I might visit very soon, in fact. I used vintage yarn for the doves (as I try to do for all my projects) on this occasion found in a local charity shop.

And the rejected birds?  Well the kittens had a good time batting them around the room!