Melissa’s Crochet Patterns let me test this lovely pattern for her even though I was late to the party (so to speak). I love Star Wars and seen a few cute crochet Porg’s made by followers so the chance to make one too I couldn’t miss out on :-).

As always I’ll be making my amigurumi version out of cotton and I cannot wait to see the results.

My Pattern Notes

Below are the yarns and colourways stated in the pattern and what I replaced them with within the yarn brand I am using. This is for my reference so I don’t get confused but it might help you also.

RHSS in Cafe Latte - Brunette Brown
RHSS in Aran - Pure White
RHSS in Gold - Ginger
RHSS in Carrot - Orange Fire

Please note the RHSS Aran colour is a more off white/cream and even though I had this colour available to me to use I choose White. I did this as I looked at some reference photos of Porg and felt this was a closer colour match. This is of course personal preference and should you want a colour like the designer used and want to use the same brand as me I’d suggest the colourway Cuddles & Cream.

If you are using different yarns to the designer it can be a bit confusing knowing what yarn is for what part of the amigurumi if you don’t know that yarns colourways. I figured it out and above you can see what yarn and colourway I used as the replacement for each. For a further help in knowing which is which I’ll quickly describe the location of each yarn colour too.

RHSS in Cafe Latte is the medium to dark brown you see on her cover photo of the Porg - for example the colour of the wings and rest of the body you see in that shade.

RHSS in Aran is the off white to cream you see on her cover photo of the Porg - for example the colour of the belly/tummy and outer eyes.

RHSS in Gold is the gold type colour (this one is more obvious to guess) you see on her cover photo of the Porg - for example the colour at the side of the head where the eyes are placed near them.

RHSS in Carrot is already explained in the pattern as being the feet and again a more obvious one to guess.

The only other colours she mentions are black and white and of course this is obvious.

I hope this helps you should you choose to use a different yarn brand .

Other than this I would like to make a note of how I work with these yarn colours that you might find helpful, as there are multiple colours used on the same round.

1. When it comes to changing over yarn colour I do this in the last stitch of the colour you are working with. I start the stitch with the colour you are working with but when it comes to the last step of yarn over and pull through the loop I use the new yarn colour. This is an easy and quick way to do a colour change and a common method so if you are unsure so bet you can find a video on you tube. Please note when I do this method I hold the strand of the new and previous yarn colour secure behind my work to keep my stitch tight and then when it comes to the next stitch in that new colour I make sure to hold these strands where the next stitches are so that I secure these yarn strands as I go.
2. On the rounds where more than one yarn colour is used I carry the yarn rather cut it, the only exception to this is the white yarn because this is much more seeable through the stitches. When it comes to the white yarn I do the stitches required and then I carry the yarn strand once I have changed over to the next yarn colour for a few stitches to secure, after this I cut the yarn and carry on with the other yarn strands. I am always carrying at least one yarn strand as I go until the rounds with only one colour and remember I never carry the white yarn apart from the first few stitches to secure.
3. This is more of a tip, when carrying the yarn strands you don’t need whilst doing a section of stitches make sure you keep the strands tight and pulled down as much as you can. This helps to make them less visible. When working with the white yarn I found it helpful to leave a longer tail than usual as then I would carry this along with the other yarn strands making sure I held it at the front of them and generally this gave less see-through in terms of the other colour yaen strands.

It’s personal preference of course how you want to change over yarn colours and how you want to work with multiple yarn colours on the same round but generally this is what has worked best for me. It’s the neatest way of working with multiple yarns I have found for this type of colour changes in this pattern and as for the colour change this is the least obvious way I have found but it’s also quick and easy.

If you carry the yarns like I have been you might find at times it shows through more than you would like. For me I have two fixes for this; the first is use a strand of yarn of the colour that area should be and with a needle go under the stitches from the front of your work and most of the time this hides the colour strand(s) that are visible and not giving you the solid colour you wanted. The yarn tails from this strand can be left at the back of your work and therefore hidden. The second way is to use a marker pen of a similar colour and carefully for over the strand colours that are peaking through. This isn’t always a good option and depends on the yarn colours but say the main yarn colour you want to be seeing is brown and the yarn strand showing through is a lighter colour it can work to help camoflauge into the brown yarn. I’d only suggest this method for situations were the see-through is very little and more like the odd dot of colour. I hope this makes sense.

I mentioned carrying the white yarn for a few stitches only, as if you hold it throughout you’ll most likely see white coming through your work. In the end I found for this particular pattern even doing so for a few stitches left the white to visable. After I finished the tummy area I carefully used a yarn needle to take the white yarn out of those few stitches that I had carried as I worked and then I worked the white yarn back through the back of the tummy. I suggest when doing this pattern to not carry through the white for a few stitches, leave some excess to sew in after you’ve done the tummy area (when the pattern says you no longer need the aran yarn). I was able to almost turn my work inside out and see in these yarn ends. Hope this advice helps.

For making my Amigurumi Porg I used a mix of the tips I gave you above, and I’m really happy with the finished results. You will notice some of my photos after I’ve done the tummy area has obvious white going vertically down the left hand side of my Porg. This is not something you can avoid as it’s just the way the pattern works out (not a fault with this pattern, can happen with any). If you don’t mind it then leave it but me personally I thought I’d like to try to hide it. It ended up being quick and simple to do. I cut a bit of the ginger yarn to start and from the front of my work I carefully worked through the stitches so that the yarn would cover the white you didn’t want to see. I worked vertically down and only needed to do this once to cover the white. I then got some brown yarn and did the same for the rest of the side where the white is showing through. I ended up going over twice with the brown yarn to get gold coverage. You cannot tell that I have done this and the left hand side looks so much better now, as you’ll see in the later photos.

I have used 3.25mm hook for the majority of this Pattern, I only changed over to a 3.5mm hook for the eyes. I felt looking at her pattern that they should be a bit bigger so I just used a slightly bigger hook which worked perfectly.

I cannot think of any further notes for this pattern as over all it was a quick and easy pattern to follow and make. It only took me longer to make as I happened to be going through a week of constant migraines and headaches. On the first day I completed I’d say 60-75% of the pattern but the following days i could only do a little crochet each day. I worked on him every moment I could until he was finished and usually for me I’d be able to finish a pattern like this in 2-3 days max.

I really love my finished Porg and cannot wait to enjoy him on display. I can highly recommend this pattern and I’ll be writing a blog post about testing him very soon!