• Knitting in black is a pain!!

• The base flat is knit flat

• Changed pattern for body to be knit in the round (why seam, right?). Basically I reduced the stitch counts by 2 and knitted instead of purled on the even rows. (It helped that I wrote out the pattern line by line first.)

• Also knitted the white patch on the belly separately, with mods. (The white patch specified by the pattern turned out to be too long and narrow for my taste. The mods below will result in a more round patch.)

1. CO 7
2. Knit 1, kfb, k1, kfb, k1,kfb, k1 (10 st)
3. Purl 1, pfb, p until 2 stitches from end, pfb, p1
4. Knit 1, kfb, k until 2 stitches from end, kfb, k1
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 2 more times (22 st)
6. Knit even for 11 rows
7. Follow steps 3 and 4, except k2tog (or p2tog) instead of k(p)fb
8. Follow steps 2, except k2tog (or p2tog) instead of k(p)fb
9. Cast off 7

Final note:

Honestly, I did not like the way the pattern was written and I did not like how the penguin looked when done. I think I was distracted by the cute kid holding the toy and not paying attention to the toy itself. Next time I’ll make something by Susan B. Anderson instead. (Her patterns are way easier and cuter!)