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I wanted to knit my own monkeystrap arm warmers so I am including you all on my journey making my Munkustrap Munkusleeves ✨

I wanted something as close to the movie version as possible, but I couldn’t make an exact replica because there’s no version of this in high enough definition to see the individual stitches. So I went for a close approximation instead.

I’ve seen a lot of fan-made machine-knit ones with only solid horizontal stripes and no mixing of colors and textures like the real deal has. But they just look clunky to me. Also, I don’t have a knitting machine.

So I did mine by hand, in the round, with a more half-patchy, half-stripey look. I used a thick wooly black tweed and a fuzzy white-gray ombré which I pulled from both ends to get both the white and the gray at once, and then interspersed the three colors sort of randomly.

One done so far. Honestly I thought about giving up because it wasn’t coming out the way I envisioned but then I added in the gray and it tied everything together, I’m really proud of how it came out. Now I just have to make a second one 🫠