Catnip Mice

Catnip Mice
By Samantha @ http://milotis.wordpress.com

Materials

3mm knitting needles
Worsted weight yarn
Darning needle
Polyester stuffing
Catnip

Instructions

Leaving a 3” tail, cast on 15 stitches.
Knit for about 1 ½ inches.
Next row: k1, *k2tog *across row.
Next row: knit across
Next row: k2tog across row
Next row: knit across

Cut yarn leaving a 10” tail and using your darning needle carefully take remaining stitches off needle (looping tail yarn through with darning needle). Sew up mouse, leaving base open.

Stuff with catnip and polyester stuffing and then sew up the base leaving the original 3” tail showing as the mouse’s tail. Or if you don’t want to use catnip, then just use the stuffing.

~ by Samantha on May 31, 2006.

11 Responses to “Catnip Mice”

  1. cool mice. i like them i’m gonna make 4.

  2. very cool pattern. i’m making up a bunch of these for a friend’s cats. definitely using catnip. i hope they’ll love them!

    ~mzundercover

  3. hey cool. since im a beginner, and these are simple, quick and cute, i love them

  4. those are really cool I am making lot but all in different colors and I am going to give some of them to my friends i hope my cat loves it its a really good idea

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  6. I just made two of the mice and my cats are rolling around with them as I type this. Thank you for the pattern.

  7. awesome i am 11 and i found that really good my cat loves it!!!!!

  8. My new kitten is going to love this!

  9. This took me less than an hour to knit, and has given little Merlin the kitten hours of fun already!

  10. The black background makes your website almost
    impossible to read.

  11. Hi,

    I knitted 4 of these last night for my step-daughter’s two cats Bilbo and Charlotte – I’ll be mailing them off today. I’ve been thinking about all kinds of variations.

    Thanks they were really fun to knit …great while watching the tube.

    fippi

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