Lions and tigers and elephants, oh my!

Another blurry wonder from my past. I made this jolly foursome for my wee cousin's Christmas present last year (and took this picture just before wrapping up the parcel, at my Grandfather's house).
I used Knitty's Puppers pattern and assorted scraps of yarn (mostly Flatmate Alice's, as it happened).
The crocodile's fearsome jaws are done with short rows and intarsia, and the lion's mane is done more or less like picking up stitches with a crochet hook. Everything else is as per the pattern.




It's a sorry state of affairs indeed when pictures taken on a cameraphone in the evening in December have better light than anything I could get today, in the middle of August. Pah!