The dovegreyreader knitsuke (please pronounce as knitski) are born thanks to the incredible KnitAngel who was part of Team dgr, and a few have been sent to their new homes at this year's Port Eliot Festival. Most importantly the very first one had to be placed in the care of Edmund de Waal...
I'm hoping better pictures of the inaugural knitsuke will emerge because in my festival haze I completely forgot to take one before we sent him on his journey.
But for Edmund de Waal there was no question, it had to be a hare with amber eyes and he was absolutely delighted (a picture will appear from someone I hope)
For Patrick 'Butterfly' Barkham we made a special trip to the very secret Site X in Devon to capture a Large Knitted Blue, with food store..
And Patrick was delighted with his knitsuke (with holes in the lid so it can breath and he's promised to look after it) because this brought his Port Eliot sightings tally up to eight species.
And our final guest of the festival, William Fiennes, and unbeknown to us word of the knitsuke was spreading. How fortunate that we had made a baggle of snow geese...
and I think we might just have made William's day too.
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