Lernie the Loch Ness Monster (or Plesiosaurus Dinosaur) Toy PDF Digital Knitting Pattern Download

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When you think of the Loch Ness monster, you’re probably picturing a grainy photograph from the 1930s featuring a big back and spindly neck emerging from the water. But the first
recorded sighting of the monster is actually from 564 CE, recorded in the writings of St. Columbia. The photo from 1934 has led many to speculate that this water-faring cryptid may
actually be a plesiosaurus, a kind of aquatic dinosaur that (supposedly) went extinct some 65 million years ago. Is Lernie trapped outside of time, the last in the line of an otherwise extinct species? Are they a single creature or does Lernie have a family? (What about Nessie, after all?) I’ve asked, but Lernie won’t tell me. Perhaps you’ll have better luck.

When you think of the Loch Ness monster, you’re probably picturing a grainy photograph from the 1930s featuring a big back and spindly neck emerging from the water. But the first
recorded sighting of the monster is actually from 564 CE, recorded in the writings of St. Columbia. The photo from 1934 has led many to speculate that this water-faring cryptid may
actually be a plesiosaurus, a kind of aquatic dinosaur that (supposedly) went extinct some 65 million years ago. Is Lernie trapped outside of time, the last in the line of an otherwise extinct species? Are they a single creature or does Lernie have a family? (What about Nessie, after all?) I’ve asked, but Lernie won’t tell me. Perhaps you’ll have better luck.

Difficulty
• Intermediate

Skills & Techniques
• Working in the round in small circumferences

Yarn
Knitpicks Brava Worsted (100% Acrylic, 218 yds/117 m per 100g skein) or another worsted weight yarn
• MC Peacock; 44 yards/40 meters

Needles
• US 4/3.5mm needles for working small pieces in the round: DPNs, 1 long circular, or 2 short circulars

Notions
• Two 6mm sew-in doll eyes
• Stitch marker
• Tapestry needle
• Pins
• Polyester fiber fill
• Two pipe cleaners
• Scissors
• Length of black fingering weight yarn or embroidery floss
Optional Notions, for Body Weight:
• 4 inch/10cm diameter circular piece of scrap fabric
• 1-2 tbsp poly pellets (or rice or dried beans)
• Needle and thread for sewing

Finished Measurements
• One Size, 8.5 inches/21.5 cm long from head to tail with neck fully extended

Photo Notes: Lernie’s big sister Nessie is made with the same pattern, using super bulky yarn and US 10.5/6.5mm needles

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