A TRENDY designer has sparked outrage with a set of knitting patterns to make woolly models of the world’s most evil dictators.

Rachael Matthews — who has kick-started a celebrity knitting craze — calls the grotesque Nazi doll Knitler.

In her new book you can find designs for a dozen dictators, with a photo of Hitler doing the Nazi salute on the cover.

Other tyrants featured are Iraqi monster Saddam Hussein, Uganda’s brutal Idi Amin and Cambodian dictator Pol Pot.

But many in the Jewish community say the dolls are offensive.

Ms Matthews has been described by The Sun as a celebrity knitter, and is founding member of London-based knitting circle Cast Off.

Ms Matthews is no stranger to controversy, after her group started selling knitted penises, called Penis in Cable, on their website.

 A spokesman for the Jewish Network said:

“You would hope people would have more sense than to take a cuddly Hitler into work.”