By combining different colours, horns and amount of hair you can easily tailor the pattern to your needs and make a variety of different cattle breeds, in the pattern I've shown Highland, Argyle, Holstein, Friesian, Swiss Brown, Jersey, Redpoll, and White Park cattle. You can then add or subtract stitches as you wish to get a size you like (remembering that you might want to make your legs a bit longer or wider too so they stay in proportion). This delightful photo that makes it look a lot like my woolly bully is on a trampoline shows how I have spaced her hair, just keep going until she has a good covering and no bald spots. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. I have mine secured with just a pin in each foot but if you wanted it to be really secure then a few stitches attaching the feet to the wreath cover should hold it in place.

Once you have a height you like just keep adding rows (after the legs) until the body is the length you want before adding the second pair of legs. With only small amounts of soft DK yarn needed, she’s also ideal for using up scraps from your stash! Use this to weave in and out of the 6 reminding stitches and then pull tight to drawstring the hole closed. Despite my best efforts, I may miss something and recommend someone with severe cat allergies to not purchase my products.Your stitches will then be on your second needle, slide them down to the right and bringing the working yarn from the left behind the work to use knit again. I used Stylecraft Special DK as it is affordable, comes in a huge range of colours and doesn’t squeak like some acrylic yarn does. There are two different options for the body, either plain or with colour-work patches, and two different options for the horns, long or short.

Rather than knotting them all on in a straight line it looks more natural if you skip a few stitches, perhaps hop down a row or two. This will bring you to the end with 6 stitches but rather than turning here the next 6 stitches will be worked in the single loops left on the other side of the starting chain, the first of which is shown here by my needle.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. As winter settles in, ensure your laundry stays fresh and dry with our innovative range of indoor drying products. You are welcome to use this pattern to make items for your personal use but please do not reproduce it anywhere or claim it as your design. Established in 1935, King Cole is driven by traditional values and a dedication to the wool and knitting industry. You might know this handsome creature as a Highland Cow but in my family they have always been woolly bullys ever since my mother declared them to be so when she was just a young girl on her first trip to Scotland.

I put a stitch marker in the first stitch of a round to show me when I have completed the circle without having to rely on keeping count. They mention that the pattern is easy to follow and the instructions on how to assemble the cow are clear. LoveCrafts Group Limited (or its affiliates, including LoveCrafts Makers Limited) 2024, registered in England and Wales (no. Depending on your confidence levels you could just have a play with your increase rounds until you get a size you like and this is what I would be tempted to do. It is probably worth putting a couple of stitches in between the legs just to strengthen then close up the gap sealing the stuffing inside.In this section wherever there are instructions *enclosed by asterisks* repeat those stitches until you reach the end of the round.