For almost a year now I've been searching for a Thomas The Tank Engine knitting pattern. No where around where I live has any or can even order any in for me. The only place I can find any is on eBay and all of them are in the UK. I've bid on about a dozen of them over the past year, but after bidding $10 for on and then having to pay about $10 for mailing, I've always been outbid. There is no way I can spend over $20 for a knitting pattern.I did come up with a solution to this problem though, I made my own pattern. Okay it's not "officially" a Thomas The Tank Engine sweater because that would be copy right infringement and that would just be wrong. What I did was take some knitting graph paper and drew a train similar to Thomas on it, and I'm using a plain sweater pattern that I already had. I'm just putting the picture of the train on the front of it. I started a few days ago and this is what it looks like so far.
I think it's going to look close enough to Thomas The Tank Engine to make my 3 year old happy, but if anyone does have a copy of a Thomas The Tank Engine knitting pattern I would love to have it.
21 comments:
I don't think it's a copyright issue if you're not reselling the pattern or the sweater. Go ahead and make the actual Thomas! Though the one you're making looks great. I know I couldn't do it!
I can't wait to see it when it's finished. Looks great so far and I'm sure Aiden will just love it
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I don't knit but my son had a Thomas The Tank Engine jumper way back in the 1980's.
Thomas is timeless :)
Oh my GOD!It looks great!
Would you do one for Eric too!?LOL!
I'm proud of my knitting skills but yours are wonderful!I can't do something with a pattern yet!... :(
xoxo
thats well cool mate i love it. get you a hot knitting momma!
So far the development of the sweater looks great Tammy.
It's looking good, Girl!
that's a pretty Thomas sweater. Syabil would love it too if he saw this.
Wow! You are talented!
wow..you are good with knitting :D
I wish i could that also hi hihi...
have a nice weekend
you are a genius! you wouldn't be violating any laws, cos you AREN'T selling them!
That looks awesome! You are so talented!
hi Tammy, your knitting is very nice, you did a great job!
how unique and what a memory some day !! sandy
So cute! Yohan loves Thomas the Tank Engine.
Your pattern looks incredible! Please share your pattern instructions!!!!! :)
that is cute tammy! hehe aidan surely loves it.
My BBFF ROCKS!!! You are so talented at so many things, and you're a great mom, and you're a great friend, AND you're H.O.T.!!! You got it ALL girl!
Finally I knew you're knitting, tooo. Good job :)
Thanks Tammy for your praying to little Ian. He's getting better now.
I am soooo impressed!!!! That is awesome! Our Thomas collection has grown over the last week and Hunter has gone from saying "nana" to actually saying "Thomas"!!!
Oh that looks awesome so far! I've got to get myself past the scarf stage and actually figure out how to knit something a bit more challenging. :)
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