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Introducing Mr. Fox!

A Friend for All Seasons Designed by Connie Mitchell, Mr. Fox is a super fun stuffed toy!  He is knit in the round with minimal seaming.  Connie has really used the shaping potential of knitting well, while keeping the construction very straightforward.  Fewer seams mean fewer points of failure when the toy gets loved on hard (and fewer opportunities to sew the arms on crooked). When Mr. Fox showed up at the Skein Shop offices for his photo shoot, David could not stop talking about how adorable he is.  I found Mr. Fox hiding in multiple places that day as David found cuter and cuter spots to pose him in.  So don't think that just because Mr. Fox is a...

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