Young Ernie by Jean Greenhowe

Young Ernie

Knitting
January 1998
DK (11 wpi) ?
26 stitches = 4 inches
in stockinette using 3mm needles
US 2½ - 3.0 mm
US 9 - 5.5 mm
English

Description from designer’s website:
Crash, bang, wallop … meet Young Ernie, a One Boy Band extraordinaire. What a racket he makes with the washboard and thimbles, bells on his shoes, a kazoo, horn, pan lid and buttons on his hat. Oh, and he also plays the spoons! And that’s not all - just look at Ernie’s back view and his knitted biscuit tin drum. He loves entertaining the other Gang members with a ‘noisy’ musical repertoire.

Measurement: The basic figure measures 39-40cm (15.5-16in) from soles of the shoes to top of the hat.

Yarn requirements: 40g (1.5oz) of red, dark turquoise, and white, 30g (1oz) of green, yellow, gold, turquoise, and light grey, 20g (.75oz) of light pink and light yellow; oddments of black, light green, dark grey, orange and fawn.

Stuffing: You will need 450g (16oz) of stuffing

Plastic drinking straws required: Three 5mm (.25in) diameter, with bendy sections. Four 3mm (.125in) diameter