Knitting Pretty

This is one of my first big knitting projects, and I think it counts as really big since I wasn't following the pattern exactly this time. I took a pattern for a duck, and adjusted it to make a hokie bird for the youngest son of some friends of mine, Hyrum and Bethany Bronson. Hyrum went to Virginia Tech, and graduated, and got a job in Florida and moved away. With so little time in Blacksburg, little Samuel wouldn't have a whole lot of time to really become a hokie fan, so I thought that knitting him a hokie bird as a toy would be a good step in the right direction to help him in becoming a true hokie fan after the order of his father! It took me a long time and a lot of trying again, undoing, and figuring things out to be able to make this hokie bird. I even undid the head after i had stuffed it and sewn it up because James said that the eyes needed to have eye whites; I had only sewn in little blue dots. So this hokie bird gets to count as one of my major knitting accomplishments, and one that I had a lot of fun with. It might just count as the transition between smaller knitting projects, like hats and scarves, and moving on to things like socks and sweaters! That, and the afghan I finished not too long ago for my nephew. I've been having fun figuring out this whole knitting things. Go fighting gobbler that was knit by me, right?