During Melbourne’s brutal lockdowns as the pandemic raged, a trip to the dog park was a real treat and that’s where Cat Bloxsom and Morgan Collins got a lot of great compliments.
But it didn’t relate to their dogs, instead the duo had taken up a somewhat daggy habit during lockdown – knitting.
“When lockdown hit in 2020 like everyone else we were trying our hand at new things and neither of us are great in the kitchen and we had already thrown out half our clothes at that point and had watched all of Netflix,” Ms Bloxsom told news.com.au.
“We were looking for something to keep us connected, creative and something to calm us at a stressful time, so ordered some stuff online to give knitting a go.
“We jumped on YouTube and taught ourselves how to knit and really loved it and we would wear our creations to the dog park and get a lot of comments about how cool our jumpers were.”
But the journey into knitting wasn’t without its hilarious mistakes with Ms Bloxsom creating one jumper where its sleeves only reached her elbows.
“I guess for people that have never knitted,…
