Joe and I are even the proud owners of not one, but two snakes. I have a very scared and wimpy ball python named Bruce, whose an absolutely gorgeous pastel morph for those of you who know what that means. Joe's is a larger iridescent Imperator Boa. If anything Joe is even more into herpetology than I am, so I am lucky to have found someone equally weird.
So now you can understand how totally thrilled I was when I found this amazing pattern for a knit snake on purl bee! (Which, as a side-note I am really hook-on right now, so there will be more modifications coming your way).
The recipe calls for making it striped with two kinds of yarn, but because I'm impatient as all get out and because I had a yarn that had some built-in stripes I modified it for just one color. I used an old skein of Caron Simply Soft Shadows that I had around, but I'm not sure they make it anymore. As for the needles I used, they're from my grandmother's collection, and I don't have the faintest clue what size they are. You could use DPN's instead easily.
Here's the best part of this project: it's knitted flat! And you don't have to do any seams or merging or stuffing or anything. It uses the basic stockinette stitch (knit one side, purl the other) and just naturally curls into itself to make itself round! It's amazing and SUPER easy. If you're someone whose only ever done scarves and knitting and purling you could do this!
