From: jkn@ohm.york.ac.uk (John Nicoll)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Clanger knitting pattern here
Date: 11 Jan 93 11:42:10 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK

Here is the clanger knitting pattern I  promised earlier.
I repeat my plea for a Soup Dragon pattern, to be found in
a Clangers Annual somewhere.
	john Nicoll (jkn@ohm.york.ac.uk)


		       BBC CHILDRENS TELEVISION
			       CLANGERS
			  by Oliver Postgate

Materials:
	- Bright pink Double Knitting (2ozs)
	- 1pr. no 12 needles [2.75 mm - use 2.5mm or 3mm]
	- Felt for hair, nose & clothes
	- pipe-cleaners for fingers & ears

BODY:
	- cast on 12 stitches
	- work four rows in st. st. [stocking stitch]
Row 5:	- increase in the first and last st.
Row 6:	- purl

	Repeat rows 5 & 6 until thre are 44 sts. (row 36),
		ending on a purl row.
	Now increase each end of _every_ row, until there are
		54 sts. (row 41)
	Now increase each end of every _knit_ row, until there are
		70 sts (row 57).

Armholes:
	- p.14, cast off 6, p.30. cast off 6, p.14 (row 58)
Row 59:	- Inc. in first st., k.13, cast on 6, k.30, cast on 6, k.13,
		inc. in last st.

	Now inc. at each end of k. rows until there are 78 sts. (row 65)
	Continue without inc. for 2.5 inches.

Shape for bottom:
1st Row: - k.18 k.2tog   k.8 k.2tog.   k.18 k.2tog k.8 k.2tog k.18
2nd Row: - purl
3rd Row: - k.18 k.2tog   k.7 k.2tog.   k.16 k.2tog k.7 k.2tog k.18
4th Row: - purl
5th Row: - k.18 k.2tog   k.6 k.2tog.   k.14 k.2tog k.6 k.2tog k.18
6th Row: - purl
7th Row: - k.18 k.2tog   k.5 k.2tog.   k.12 k.2tog k.5 k.2tog k.18
8th Row: - purl
9th Row: - cast off 7   k.18   cast off 12   k. to end
10th Row: - cast off 7

	- K. 8 rows of st. st. on each of these sets of sts.
	- cast off
[you will need an extra needle, or a loop of wire, to hold the
stitches of one leg while you are knitting th other]

			-End of Body-

ARMS: (2 off)
	- cast on 12 st.
Row 1:	- k.
Row 2:	- p.
Row 3:	- k., incr. in first and last st.

	Work 7 rows st. st.
Row 11:	- k., incr. in first and last st.
	Work 5 rows st. st.

	cast off

			- End of Arms-

EARS: (left ear)
	- cast on 4 st.
Row 1:	- k.3, incr. in last st.
Row 2:	- p.

	Continue in st. st., increasing in last st. of every k. row
		until there are 10 st.
		(for right ear, make increases in first stitches)
	k. 5 rows of st. st.
Next row:
	- k. 2tog   k.6  k.2tog
Next row:
	- purl
Next row:
	- k. 2tog   k.4  k.2tog
Next row:
	- purl
		
	- cast off
	- The ears are stiffened at the edges with pipe-cleaners
	[I think I would also line the forward side with pink fabric]

			- end of Ears-

Miscellaneous
	cut feet out of black felt. Using this shape(*), cut out
	four pieces of felt, and two slightly smaller of card

	the eyes are shiny shoe buttons

	the fingers are pipe-cleaners

	the hair is cut from brown felt

	[the nose is cut from black(?) felt]

	[the clothes are made from shapes of felt decorated with stitches.
	probably best to watch the programme to see how they look,
	for details of the clothes and hair]

(*)			< 1 >

                       /-----\		^
                      / /   \ \		
                     /  |   |  \
                    /   \__/    \	2
                   /             \
                  /               \
                 /                 \
                /                   \
	        \___________________/
					^
		<	  3	    >

	Dimension 1 - around 1.5cm
	Dimension 2 - around 4.5cm
	Dimension 3 - around 4cm

[The actual foot is more rounded than this, but obviously it's
not too critical.]

			The End
	

-- 
john nicoll (jkn@ohm.york.ac.uk)
Department of Electronics  University of York
Heslington   YORK YO1 5DD U.K
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