Stuffed Pheasant

I'm not sure what came over me, but this stuffed pheasant project just called my name.  It's another animal in the wonderful Faux Taxidermy Knitting book that I used to make the mole door stop.  (Mole Doorstop Post)  This project was a lot of fun to make because there's really no wrong way to make a stuffed pheasant.  I used combinations of my stash Brown Sheep yarn to get the bulky weight I needed and to get the heathered look for the body and wings.  This bird was knit up on size 13 needles, so it went really fast.  The finishing work took a while.  My only criticism of the Faux Taxidermy Knits book is their finishing directions.  They are not very detailed.  I have a pretty good working knowledge of finishing knitting projects, which came in very handy here because I had to ad-lib much of the final details.  Now that it's done, I don't know what to do with it.  Maybe I'll bring it into work so the mole can have a companion.

Close up of the head.  I used buttons for the eyes.

The tail feathers add a lot to the finished look of the Pheasant

I decided to make the wings two-toned.