Christmas Reindeer

The pattern is written using standard UK knitting terms. It involves basic techniques, including working with more than one colour, and shaping.

Materials required:

Oddments of DK yarn (we used Drops Lima). 3.25mm knitting needles (or appropriate for chosen yarn type). Toy filling. Buttons.

A note from me. The reindeer’s body is a fairly straightforward knit. It does include a lot of shaping, especially around the face, so a nice stretchy yarn is best, i.e. not a cotton. Standard increase and decrease methods are used.

Don’t be put off because of the legs! You don’t have to make them that way, you can knit plain legs in different colours, or perhaps stripes, or maybe even embroidered holly leaves and berries! How nice! But! I would recommend giving it a go!