Welcome To The Old Toy Knitting Shop

Georgina Manvell and Suzannah Holwell are knitting and crochet designers who have worked together since 2010 and known one another for many years as friends. Georgina's toy patterns have been shown in My Weekly and Home & Country (WI) magazines in the 1980/90s.She is also known for her work as a tutor at Denman College (Women's Institute) near Oxford. Her most famous pattern is Little Knittington; a beautiful knitted village designed in 1986. Full of nostalgia. We were featured in the wonderful knitting magazine Simply Knitting in their Spring 2011 issue.

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toy knitting pattern by Georgina Manvell and Suzannah Holwell Clarence measures 24 cm high and 44 cm long when completed in DK yarn. He has large clawed feet, a beautiful fanned collar and an arrow tail. He has a superb bobbly coat and ribbed wings. He even has smoke coming out of his nostrils! In the depths of his dark cave Clarence daydreams of the mighty Welsh Kings of Aberffraw who in the 5th century loved dragons. We hope you will love him too. This pattern is in easy to read print, hot laminated and presented in a comb binder so it will last for ages

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