Description
🐇 BILBY HAND PUPPET — ONE VERY LONG-EARED STORYTELLER, READY TO KNIT
Story time runs better with a bilby in charge. This single pattern makes one proper glove puppet — grey and gentle, with very long ears and a pointy snout — that fits an adult hand and stands ready to narrate, giggle and act out every bedtime tale. We’re Al and Tina, an Aussie family shop, and the bilby is one of Australia’s best-loved animals; he’s also one of our eleven hand puppets, who all start from the same comfy glove base (that’s the part that fits your hand) while each animal’s head is its own construction — the bilby’s head is shaped exactly as this pattern describes, because no two animals in the set are made the same way where it counts. This is a knitting pattern, not a finished puppet — your download is the complete 9-page PDF.
📋 WHAT’S INSIDE
🐇 The Bilby Hand Puppet — about 11 in (28 cm) tall plus ears; the glove base fits an adult hand
📏 A gauge & fit guide — 22 sts × 28 rows = 4 in, with sizing tips for smaller hands
🔢 The full row-by-row pattern — stitch counts on every row, stitch-checked
🧩 An assembly & face guide — embroidered faces only, no safety eyes or small parts
📸 A photo gallery — the finished puppet from the front, side and back
⚡ INSTANT DOWNLOAD
📄 9-page PDF — yours to keep forever; print at home or read on any device
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🧶 Yarn & tools: grey DK (about 45 g); pink DK for the ear inners (optional); white DK for the tail tip; black embroidery thread. DK weight (8-ply) yarn; 3.25 mm (US 3) DPNs or a long circular for magic loop; a little fiberfill
🎁 Skill level: Confident beginner — if you can knit, purl, increase and decrease, you can make this puppet
🧶 MORE FROM THE PUPPET THEATRE
🦘 Kangaroo Hand Puppet — another of the eleven, with its own head construction on the same comfy glove base
🐨 Koala Hand Puppet — another of the eleven, and an Aussie favourite
🐾 Aussie Animal Finger Puppets Vol 1 — the original finger-sized cast
Pop him on your hand and let the stories begin — happy knitting, and thank you for supporting our Aussie family shop!
Original designs © Alandtina. For personal use only.
Created with the help of an AI generator.
🌐 See everything at https://alandtina.com
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