Well, it’s the second day of Knitting and Crochet Blog Week 2014 and today’s post topic is a ‘Dating Profile’ for a project you’ve made. Again, this topic takes me out of my comfort zone, but it does provide me with an opportunity to re-introduce my blog’s unofficial mascot……
Marvin!
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Dapper Meerkat, 16 months, GSOH, would like to meet similar…….
Hello, my name’s Marvin and I’m a 16 month old meerkat and Knitwear Design Advice Guru. I was knitted at my owner’s home in the UK and I spend my days providing her with invaluable inspiration and advice on her designs (when she’s not abandoned me to work at a yarn shop).
I’m 5″ tall, medium build, cute and fluffy with a glint in my eye 😉 (it must be the little glass beads)!
I’m interested in meerkat fashion, especially knitwear and I’m working on getting my knitter to expand my wardrobe. It’s the least she could do after I helped her to get a design on the front cover of Let’s Knit magazine, but no such luck yet. That design started life as a motif on my Nordic style jumper – a bespoke design just for me!
I also like Doctor Who. In the words of the Doctor himself:
‘It’s a fez. I wear a fez now, fezzes are cool!’
I also have a bow tie. I’m quite the style icon in the meerkat world. I just need a sonic screwdriver, a TARDIS and an adventurous assistant!
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As for my dislikes, well, I don’t like being mistaken for an insurance salesman*, or being compared to other meerkats online. I also hate the cold, but that’s what my jumper is for! With that on to keep me cosy I can even stay out long enough to built a snow meerkat!
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In the long term I would like to meet other small meerkats and be given more responsibility in my role as Knitwear Design Advice Guru. Perhaps I could become a knitwear model or international trend setter? Anything but selling insurance!
*In the UK, meerkats have become popular due to a character in a well known insurance comparison website advert, a campaign based entirely on the idea that ‘compare the market’ sounds a bit like ‘compare the meerkat’. Though Marvin is understandably grumpy about this, he should probably accept that without the rise in popularity of meerkats due to this the pattern for him would never have been published, I would never have been given a copy of the book containing it for Christmas and he would never have existed.
Back tomorrow with another post! Looking forward to reading yours 🙂
Lottie x
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