I usu­al­ly don’t like mak­ing imi­ta­tions of well-known car­toon char­ac­ters for fears of infring­ing copy­right laws, but this young friend of mine absolute­ly LOVES Thomas the Tank Engine and I want­ed to make him a present for his 3rd birthday. I don’t think he would be at all impressed if I made him any­thing else.

So I made these Thomas mit­tens, using the mit­ten pat­tern from Lion Brand Yarn. He’s pos­ing here in front of this pho­to we have of San Francisco.

 

He’s got sort of a crazed look on its face but I’m actu­al­ly quite proud of it. I man­aged to incor­po­rate a pop­corn stitch for the nose rather than mak­ing it sep­a­rate­ly and sewing it on.

The face took a lot of work, so for the sec­ond mit­ten instead of mak­ing anoth­er face I decid­ed to sew on the num­ber 1 instead, which is Thomas’ train number.

After open­ing the gift and exclaim­ing “It’s Thomas!” my young friend ran around the room while hug­ging the mit­tens. I think he likes them :)

 

Have a splen­did day, every­one! :D