Toad - A Cantankerous Old Fool

Gets a makeover

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(I have been using patterns by Claire Garland from Dot Pebbles Knit for most of these little animals. She has a fab Instagram account. Shoes are sadly not made by me but from various sellers on Etsy.)

Hello Knitting Cabbage Heads,

Toad was one of the first few ‘frogs’ I made. Nothing in particular, other than the colour of the wool, made him a toad. I used an old pattern where the wire for the legs didn’t go all the way through his body and eventually he started to have hip problems. This is him with his friend Frog on a picnic.

Well those hips really began to hurt and so I booked him in for limb replacement surgery, arms and legs as the arms were attached the same way and so an upgrade was in order. I have to admit he was a grumpy so and so. I put it down to the bad hips initially but his attitude continued. We almost fell out.

First came new arms.

Then new legs and new boots.

At this point we were in the middle of an unseasonable heat wave and melting when he decided he needed a wool jumper. He was most insistent and almost rude in his demands. Anyhoo, jumper was made and then tartan shorts called for.

Grumpy Toad is staying here with me, he has too many errors (and too bad an attitude) to be allowed out in the big wide world. More better mannered frogs are on the way though.

Till next time peeps, Tx

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