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Celebrities become celeb-KNTTIES!!

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Your celeb-knitties: After featuring the book Knitted Icons, readers have besieged us with their own creations

 

Last updated at 10:39am on 31st October 2007 commentIconSm.gif Comments (4)

Everyone likes a really good yarn ... after we featured a book, Knitted Icons, about dolls made to represent wool-known people, readers have besieged us with their own creations. You may not guess them all - but some will have you in stitches.

knitaudjackieDM2510_468x556.jpgAudrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy (right) were featured from from the book Knitted Icons and have inspired many readers to get their knitting needles out and make some celebs of their own

 

 

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boratAmy_468x470.jpgMy name Borat. You like? Sacha Baron Cohen's Kazakh creation (left) by Michelle Hall and Jane Hayles of Chester and The Knit Awards winner is. . . Amy Winehouse(right) by Mrs Marion Folkes

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potter3010_468x607.jpgFrom the Hogwarts school of stitchcraft: Harry Potter by Michelle Hall and Jane Hayles

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liamHank3010_468x360.jpgKnitpop: Liam Gallagher (left) by Michelle Hall and Jane Hayles of Chester. But the smile makes it a bit unrealistic and Hank of wool Marvin, by Janet Spurway of St Albans, Herts

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hobbitsDM3010_468x406.jpgOh no Mr Frodo, we're unravelling: Merry and Pippin from Lord Of The Rings by Kate Drummond

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blobbyspider3010_468x321.jpgAnd he's got a Crinkly Bottom too! Mr Blobby by Maureen Hack. Hanging by a thread: Spider Man by Michelle Hall and Jane Hayles

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hitlerChurchDM3010_468x429.jpgFor you, Tommy, ze wool is over: Adolf Knitler by Hazel Hassan ; we will knit them on the beaches, we shall knit them on the landing grounds: Knight of the Garter Stitch Churchill by Jan Thwaites

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Aragorn3010_468x580.jpgLord Of The Crochet: Aragorn by Chloe Burrows of Fareham, Hants

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WhiteMansell_468x389.jpgYou're the first, the last, my every string: Barry White by Becky Clayton and Formula Knit One, Purl One: Nigel Mansell by Maureen Hack

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penguins3010_468x117.jpgA March Of The Penguins discovered by purler explorer Hedley Metcalfe from Hebden Bridge, Yorks

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