Sometimes I like to just fool around on my knitting machines with no big goal in mind. I found this little guy on Ravelry and converted it to a machine knit toy. I thought it was as cute as a bug's ear. With no embroidery on the face and no stuffing except for the head, he looks vintage to me. I tweaked the original pattern a little, especially the extremities because I found it really hard to tie the knots with the fabric doubled. Otherwise all credit goes to Phildar.
I tried taking pictures of him without a flash and consequently, got weird folds and dark shadows. He's really a nice clean baby blue. Honest!
I built the schematic in DesignaKnit and sometimes the program puts the even numbers on the left and the odd numbers on the right----opposite to where you want your carriage to be. So, I suggest you ignore one side and just do the same on the other side since the sides are a mirror image. I knit him on a standard gauge machine but you could do your math and redo the pattern to fit a midgauge or bulky. Lutin is knit in 3 pieces. Two identical bodies and one hat. He measures about 10" tall and 8" wide. Good for an extra baby gift, charity or yourself (no diaper changing involved.)
I hope you can read my directions----Blogger reduced the size a little. If you click on the diagram you will get a slightly larger picture. Then you can right click and save the image to your Paint program (or any other image processing program.) It should enlarge a little and be easier to read.
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