Knitted nativity set - has anyone else made one?

Only just noticed, that should have ended with arrives.

The Jean Greenhowe pattern is not difficult to do but does take a lot of patience and time, not something you can do in a hurry, if you want it for Christmas 2018 you need to make a start as soon as the pattern

Now I'm wondering whether to knit one.
We have a Sylvanian Families cottage in the attic which could make a nice stable …….

Having knitted part of the set I know how fiddly it is!!

I didn't like the ceramic set I bought so it went back to the charity shop where I bought it brand new. I hope it found another but loving home.

I unwrapped my ceramic set one year and the shepherd, carrying a sheep round his neck, had lost his head. He looked like a gruesome hybrid.

My smaller set is made from something like Fimo. Several characters are missing eyes and Joseph did a runner years ago. A knitted set sounds like a lovely idea, but I doubt my skills are up to the task.

I knitted that one for the grandchildren a couple of years ago.They love acting out the nativity with it.Made two baby Jesus as he kept disappearing.

Can’t knit so bought a wooden one.

Last year Thomas the Tank Engine was spotted replacing the baby Jesus in the crib.

I should have used this as a teachable moment but it was so funny I left him there for a while...

Ive still got the one I made when my adult children were little. As they got older I never knew from one day to the next where they would move the figures to or what they would pose them doing! Often the baby was up marys dress and joseph was wearing the kings crown and giving the donkey a piggy back!

Oh, loo roll inners! Thanks for that! Pattern hasn't arrived yet so I hadn't thought of that - must start saving them.

A dear friend knitted the complete set for me to use in my Reception class many years ago! My own grandchildren have loved it and we still set it out every year although they are not little now. The loo roll inners are the only part I’ve had to replace.

I have knitted part of one (the craft group I go to undertook the whole nativity set).
It turned out very well - but I think it would be quite a task to knit the whole lot; perhaps you are a more dedicated knitter than me

We used that pattern