So sorely tempted by this pattern!

There is a charity who ask for Shoe Boxes to be filled with a range of items. The children's contents can include small toys. Your mice are perfect. These boxes are wrapped in Christmas paper and sent to families in need in other parts of the world.
I can imagine the joy on a child's face at discovering their little mouse gift.

I think they're adorable OP, they really are. I'm another with too much stuff. If I get flattened by a bus tomorrow my family will have a right job sorting though my spare room which is like a tip.

I love that pattern. ☺
I have made lots of the animals from that same series of patterns - bunnies, fox, elephant (but no mice yet) - and they have gone down really well with my dgc even though, like yours, they already have far too many soft toys. By the time their faces are finished, each one very much has its own unique personality.

If you really don't want to give yours to your dgc, your idea of maybe donating it to the school raffle sounds a great idea.

That was for Doodledog.

I just downloaded this - 17 pages! - as someone suggested, I’ll donate it to the food bank for Christmas, with a note to say the stuffing is safety compliant. I don’t have the recommended yarns and won’t be buying any more, but there’s plenty of the right colours of DK in my vast stash.

I've just searched my patterns, and see I have this one. I'd forgotten I had it, but might have a go at it after I finish the numerous jumpers I'm working on.

It's on Ravelry and is called Bunny in a Dotty Dress

LRavenscroft

Callistemon21

LRavenscroft

Witzend

Tempting, LRavenscroft, but TBH I’ve got too much ‘stuff’ already, inc. a lot of dds’ old soft toys, kept for the Gdcs when visiting.,
I know I’d get a great deal of satisfaction out of making them, but it’d be even nicer to think of them ending up with someone who’d really love them.

I know what you mean. I love crocheting blanket projects but all members of the family have one now so I make blankets as hugs for different charities. For me the pleasure is in making them. As the others posters have said, perhaps children elsewhere would treasure them. They really are cute!

I've just started the Sweet Blossom blanket LRavenscroft - hope I'm up to it as I've never done anything as ambitious before!

Ooh! Sounds lovely. I'll check it out. Thanks. Enjoy!

Just spent a happy hour procrastinating sorting out my yarn! 😀

Callistemon, if I were you I think I’d pass all your un-sewn up bits - with a copy of the pattern - to a charity shop. Think of the relief - no feeling that you ought to be doing it, with a big fat plus of someone being only too pleased to get the whole thing for relative peanuts, and not too much effort!

Those are very sweet, Grannybuy!

I don’t, Doodledog, but if you search ‘Little Cotton Rabbits’ on Google or search the Etsy site, I dare say it’ll come up. It’s 18 pages!!

Cute . I love the Grandad one.

Patterns can be so tempting, as are yarns, unfortunately! I couldn’t resist these. Fiddly, but I was pleased with the result.

I saw the pattern on an ad on here, but when I clicked on it it just took me to Etsy, not the pattern itself. Do you have a link to it please?

They look lovely. Just a word of caution. I tried to give some knitted toys to a charity last year, but was told I needed appropriate safety certification for the materials I used, plus no wobbly eyes! If you don't have the certificate, or label,or whatever you need, and something goes wrong there are liability issues! It's very depressing for those of us who make things for Christmas sales and similar.
I think it's different if they are not toys, though. Someone I knew put aromatic oils or a lavender bag in the middle of her creations, and said they were not toys. When we watched her demonstrate, and she used a hypodermic syringe to inject fragrant oil into her stuffed fabric rabbit, all of us there audibly winced!!
The law might have changed by now, of course!! If anyone in Gransnetland knows more about this, please reply as I'd love to be able to do more toy making.

My late Mother loved making knitted small toys. A set for each of us and something we treasure.

Vintagegirl - that's a fantastic idea .

A relative in Aus makes teddies/dolls to give to ambulance crew to have to hand if they are involved with chilren.

I too say make them for yourself!

You could then tell stories about their doings to your grandchildren if they are the right ages to enjoy them.

My oldest teddy and I started telling stories to my grandson (by email to h is mother) during lockdown, and we are still at it two years later. He is seven now.

We started with the things that were so different when we (Teddy Ursula and I) were his age and went on from there.

Callistemon21

LRavenscroft

Witzend

Tempting, LRavenscroft, but TBH I’ve got too much ‘stuff’ already, inc. a lot of dds’ old soft toys, kept for the Gdcs when visiting.,
I know I’d get a great deal of satisfaction out of making them, but it’d be even nicer to think of them ending up with someone who’d really love them.

I know what you mean. I love crocheting blanket projects but all members of the family have one now so I make blankets as hugs for different charities. For me the pleasure is in making them. As the others posters have said, perhaps children elsewhere would treasure them. They really are cute!

I've just started the Sweet Blossom blanket LRavenscroft - hope I'm up to it as I've never done anything as ambitious before!

Ooh! Sounds lovely. I'll check it out. Thanks. Enjoy!

But (for Callistemon) there’s yet another NS to be made for the school fair raffle first - after 3 or 4 years now it’s come to be expected!

Deep breath 😂😂😂
Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the wee donkey, can we just move this thing along, and finish it before next Christmas!

Callistemon21

Ooh yes, they're cute!!
Someone will love them 🙂

We were asked to make knitted toys for the Food Bank last Christmas and there is also a local hub for Ukrainian refugees here which would be glad of toys.

That’s a lovely idea - I hadn’t thought of the food bank. I do a big shop for a local one in December, and usually add one or two toys off the supermarket shelves, but hadn’t thought of knitting anything. The baby rabbits in basket cribs that I’ve made before for a charity sale, would probably go down well, too.
They sold for pretty much peanuts, but that’s only to be expected at a sale like that.

But (for Callistemon) there’s yet another NS to be made for the school fair raffle first - after 3 or 4 years now it’s come to be expected!

LRavenscroft

Witzend

Tempting, LRavenscroft, but TBH I’ve got too much ‘stuff’ already, inc. a lot of dds’ old soft toys, kept for the Gdcs when visiting.,
I know I’d get a great deal of satisfaction out of making them, but it’d be even nicer to think of them ending up with someone who’d really love them.

I know what you mean. I love crocheting blanket projects but all members of the family have one now so I make blankets as hugs for different charities. For me the pleasure is in making them. As the others posters have said, perhaps children elsewhere would treasure them. They really are cute!

I've just started the Sweet Blossom blanket LRavenscroft - hope I'm up to it as I've never done anything as ambitious before!

Ooh yes, they're cute!!
Someone will love them 🙂

We were asked to make knitted toys for the Food Bank last Christmas and there is also a local hub for Ukrainian refugees here which would be glad of toys.

Dottienan

How about a child in need at Christmas, the local school on my road were taking donations of new toys etc for orphans they would love to receive something like this for the younger children maybe churches / community centres might do something like that too 😊

That is a lovely idea, but I seem to recall a local scheme for Christmas toys for needy children saying ‘new (shop bought) toys only’, they specified nothing made at home- presumably because they couldn’t be sure of safety standards.

Which I do understand. The charity I knit for (therapy items for children with problems) is very strict on safety - permitted stuffing only, and every item is carefully checked for forgotten pins, any small gaps for escaping stuffing, etc.

Thank you all for suggestions.

What a lovely pattern !
Great for grandchildren and /or raffles and refugee children .

It would defeat me .
I'm not the World's greatest knitter .
Blankets and scarves are my limit .

One day , I'm hoping that I'll be able to knit myself a stocking stitch twinset .
It's on my bucket list !

I'm full of admiration for people , who can knit complicated patterns .