Planet Yarn would be inhabited by yarnlings…right? That’s what I thought, so I started making them. Some stick around (literally: they have magnets in their bottoms) and some like to travel our own planet. They come in all shapes and as they’re made from Stylecraft Special dk, they clearly come in many, many colours (currently 88!).

Although I tend to make them up as I go along I thought it would be fun to send a pattern out there, into the world, so anyone could hook up their own yarnling if they fancied it.

This is not a pattern for a toy and the finished item is not suitable for small children.