The Friendship Bean pattern is a cute and quick pattern for knitters of all levels. If you are a beginner, this is a good pattern to practice knitting in the round and duplicate stitch. If you are an intermediate or advanced knitter, you’ll be able to make a cute animal from start to finish in just a few hours.

This pattern calls for sport weight yarn. I recommend Knit Picks Brava to get these nice, bright colours. You’ll need just 1/10th of a skein of main colour, about 1yd of white, and <1yd of each other contrasting colour.

Gauge is not important, just be sure that your knitting is snug so that the stuffing does not spill out.

This pattern is part of my collection of Care Beans. You can purchase the collection of ten for half the price of buying them individually.