So, with The Hobbit coming out, several guys in our foam fighting group playing dwarves (scrawny, bare-faced dwarves), and all the awesome knits of dwarven helms, somebody had to know it was going to happen.
I had a lot of fun making this but honestly? The absolute best part was how thrilled he was get it. He looks gruff here because he’s posing but he had a huge grin on any other time. Plus he kept stroking the beard and giggling. Reactions like that are the best part of knitting for friends. He’s even wearing the hat portion around town.
Lynn posed for me the night before to make sure I got some good up close shots of the beard.
Pattern: Mismash of a few different patterns.
Project Page: Ravelry
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Awesome job!!! It’s always so much fun to kinit for friends.
Here’s my FO: http://mibruno.com/terminado-35/
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It really is. I love their enthusiasm. 🙂
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Ha! Both my boys (young adults) love the knit beard-type hats. I’ve made them each one, and they requested more, with more full beards. It IS fun, how much they enjoy those silly hats.
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I love them! I kind of wish this wasn’t for a fighting group so I could do super long, elaborate beards. LOL
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His enthusiasm is really funny. Glad to here it turned out great.
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It’s why I love knitting for friends. 🙂
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I adore this pattern. It freaks me out to think about how much yarn is used for those beards though.
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Actually, since the beard needed to be short enough for easy care in battle I used less than 1 skein of yarn.
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