From the side

Penguin 1, originally uploaded by limelady722.

This was my first experience working from a pattern, I'd found a book about how to knit toys from the library and was really excited to try them out. The penguin looked easy to make and I wanted to do something for Tom's birthday, so I did. Sort of.

I learned how to increase and decrease the way the pattern specified and tried sewing pieces together for the first time. It's pretty lumpy, rather awkwardly shaped, but charming? Right? You can definitely tell it's homemade...