Though I find real raccoons terrifying (one came to our back door once, and I swear he was trying to figure out how to get into our house so he could harass us all in our sleep), their masked faces and stripey tails speak to the type of things I love knitting. This guy is no different and every time I look at that little masked face, I think to myself, “Something this cute can’t have such a scary real-life cousin, can it?”

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