The lost penguin jumpers

A couple of weeks ago (or maybe it was a week ago, when its this cold out time seems to stand still lol) Froggy sent me this link that was asking for sweaters for penguins.Â Live little penguins (who were soaked in oil from the bad humans who spilled it into their environment) were needing little knitted sweaters to wear so that they wouldn't lick the oil off themselves. I thought it was such a grand gesture and although I do not know how to knit, I figured I could easily convert that knitting pattern they gave over to a crochet one. lol. I have Grandiose ideas there is no doubt.

I jaunted over to my crochet site and posted the link to them, told the ladies (and gents) there "Look, the penguins need our help! yadda..* and then i set off to making a couple of penguin jumpers.

Here are the two jumpers i made, that could fit a penguin lol

The knitted pattern said that the jumper needed to be 20 cm's long, 12 cm's wide with 5 cm holes for the wings. (tiny little penguins) and so im pretty sure the jumpers would fit them.

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I tried to stitch in the words ITSACHAT around the bottom but that was a bit of a failed attempt. Im just learning how to change colors properly, so this was good practice lol

Here are the back sides

and some side views.

It took me pretty much all day and night to make these jumpers. The next day I went back to the crochet site to see if anyone else was going to make a jumper... only to find out thatÂ THE PENGUINS DONT NEED ANY JUMPERS!!! *gasps*

Apparently, that stupid site that was asking for jumpers forgot to take down the part where they were supposed to say, they don't need anymore jumpers. I think there were like, 20 penguins that needed them, and 10,000 jumpers were sent in so now they are sitting in boxes in a back room... waiting for a volunteer group to organize them and sell them to raise funds to care for penguins, but really just collecting dust mites *sad face*

Anyways, one nice lady wanted to see how my jumpers turned out so I thought Id write this quick blog about my failed attempt to sweater a penguin.Â I'm going to give the jumpers to Bellybop as they will fit some of her Dollys so they will still get some good use!! :)

Thanks for reading

written by: lanfearinc Tuesday, March 25, 2014

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