I’m so happy to already see a handful of completed Boos over on Ravelry! Since I released the pattern less than 48 hours ago, I guess that proves just how quick of a knit he is. Super!

Three bats in particular are very special friends, because they were made by three of my awesome test knitters, who were a big help to me in polishing the pattern.

First is this little cutie by Mikkers.

Her Boo loves to commune with colorful flowers. What a romantic…

Kountingsheep used acrylic yarn to make her bat, whom she named Yahtzee!

Isn’t he stylish?

Because she was knitting with acrylic yarn, which behaves differently from wool, Kountingsheep slipped one stitch at each end of the bat’s wings, and she also used an iron to “kill” the acrylic and stop it from rolling. A great tip!

And finally, a bat from Bonney, my mother-in-law! John, my father-in-law, was nice enough to take some artful photos of her adorable Boo.

Thank you to Mikkers, Kountingsheep, and Bonney! You are all Boo-rific. (And I am in the mood for terrible puns, apparently.)

Kate Jeffery (aka Disco Smurf), who knitted up the cute Captain Capacitor I posted here a couple of weeks ago, has now created her own electronics-inspired pattern: Bright Spark the Light Bulb!

Isn’t it super? This is a free pattern available for download through Ravelry. Or, if you don’t have a Ravelry account (why don’t you?), you can also download the pattern here.

Looking forward to seeing more designs from Kate! (Perhaps a compact fluorescent Bright Spark??)

I had a few great testers help check the pattern for Lucky, and I can’t thank them enough! Two of them shared photos of their finished trees. Let’s take a look.

Tezzcan’s Lucky seems to embody more than one kind of luck: her little birds seem to have made a love connection.

I love the pretty colors that Oiyi used for her Lucky.

(According to her blog, she used Caron Simply Soft.)

She also had her adorable dog Caesar model Lucky.

Caesar probably had no idea what was up with this strange little toy…

Thank you again to Oiyi and Tezzcan!!

My friend Audrey (the one who designs jewelry) sent me an interesting photo that seems a perfect followup to the creepy polyfil bag.

The photo is from a 1988 issue of National Geographic, from an feature titled “Wool: Fabric of History.” (I cropped out a flash reflection, but there was also a knitted tea set in the photo.)

Here is the caption that Audrey also passed along:

The cat’s alive, but the rest of Noeline Black’s friends are stuffed. Created by Black and other members of the Fabric Art Company in Wellington, New Zeland, they reflect the humor and ironies of domestic life. Taking yarn from her own leg, the woman at her far right is unraveling herself to make the baby she has always wanted.

It seems as though the Fabric Art Company no longer exists (at least not to the internet), but there are a couple of photos from a 1983 gallery installation they did on the Art New Zealand website.

Thanks Audrey!