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Burt Badgerach

Created by: Trish Roberts

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  • Project Details

    About

    Regular viewers will remember Benny Hedgehogson from last year. Benny was faithfully (well, mostly…) recreated from a 40-something-year-old pattern and took YEARS (no, really - actual YEARS!) to complete. Anyway, I was so delighted with how he (eventually) turned out that I decided he needed a jumpsuit-wearing friend: BURT BADGERACH!

    The original pattern used buttons for but I couldn’t find any of a suitable size. After much pondering, I eventually went for favourite eye technique: knotted eyes. The only downside was that I had to position them on the white bit of Burt’s head otherwise they wouldn’t show up. I then became paranoid that he just didn’t look, um, ‘badgery’ enough.

    Having spent longer than is healthy Googling badgers, I decided to knit a second head and see if I could somehow make it a bit more ‘badgery’. But, as the days went by, I became rather fond of Burt’s existing head and realised that I couldn’t bring myself to decapitate him!

    Pattern

    Vintage knitting pattern - The Knitwits

    This pattern can be found here:
    www.ravelry.com

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    Craft

    Knitting

    Skill Level

    Intermediate

    Status

    Complete
    Finished on: Jul 30, 2015

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    13 Comments

    • Meemoo

      • Pacific Palisades

      Wow! What glorious colours and great detailed work!
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    • Eve. L.

      I know what you mean - I've spent hours in the shop choosing a colour then wishing I'd got the other one when I'd got home! Must say though - your other work & colour choices are superb. Have faith, you're better than you think!
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      • Trish Roberts

        • Welshpool

        I'm terrible and tend to buy all the colours - then I do the deciding at home. Over many, many hours! Thank you for the lovely compliment - my usual way of selecting colours is to think "would George Michael have worn shorts in this colour when he was in Wham!?" if the answer's yes then I know I'm on the right track!
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    • Eve. L.

      Trish - now there's a thought!... if Benny took years perhaps you're thinking ahead a bit too far. x
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      • Trish Roberts

        • Welshpool

        That's a very good point, Eve! Although, knowing me, it would probably take to choose the 'perfect' colour than it would to knit the thing! x
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    • Eve. L.

      Benny's fantastic - what lovely colours too!
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      • Trish Roberts

        • Welshpool

        Thanks, Eve! I sometimes wonder if I should scale up the pattern and make a jumpsuit for myself! 🤔
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      • Marysia D

        • Belfast

        @Trish Roberts: Do it! Do it! Do it! :-)
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      • Trish Roberts

        • Welshpool

        @Marysia D: How hard can it?! (Famous last words uttered by every knitter ever at some point... ;-))
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    • Christine R

      • Preston

      What a gorgeous guy, bit like his namesake, not that I'm actually old enough to remember him!
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      • Trish Roberts

        • Welshpool

        Thanks, Christine! I think Burt once did a duet with the other Burt but it was a long, long time ago! ;-)
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    • Alison B

      • Portsoy

      He is lovely 😊
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