Poppy is a penguin on a mission - stay warm, stay fabulous, stay visible in a blizzard. She’s a knitter, so of course she has a matching hat and cowl set. Gotta use up those single skeins, after all!

Poppy is worked in a combination of flat and in the round. The body is worked flat with intarsia - a wonderfully simple way of inserting a colour in the middle of the work. After the body is seamed together, stitches are picked up for the hat, which is worked in the round. The bottom of the body is also picked up from the penguin and worked in the round. The cowl, flippers, and feet are all worked in the round as well.

The beak is added with duplicate stitch after the body is knit.

Skills Used
•knit and purl
•working flat and in the round
•mattress stitch
•intarsia
•duplicate stitch
•3-needle bind-off
•picking up sts
•k2tog, ssk, p2tog, CDD
•kfb, kfb-M, M1L, M1R, inc 1-into-5

Lots of video tutorials included to help you with these skills.

Materials
•Fingering Weight Yarn
1 mini skein each of 4 colours Leading Men Fiber Arts Show Stopper (75% superwash merino, 25% nylon); 92 yd. / 84 m per 20 g skein; colours shown:
Not Quite Black: Vengeance*
White: Bare Necessities
Orange: Midas Touch
Blue: Perfection

• Note: Vengeance is the perfect penguin ‘black’ - it’s a great grey that means you can still read your knitting and easily do the seaming.

Approximate Yardage
(with a 15% buffer)
Black: 78 yd. / 72 m (17 g)
White: 23 yd. / 21 m (5 g)
Orange: 23 yd. / 21 m (5 g)
Blue: 23 yd. / 21 m (5 g)

Note that the black skein needs to be wound into two balls.

•Needles  
US 1 / 2.25 mm and US 1.5 / 2.5 mm needles for knitting small circumference in the round or size needed to get gauge using smaller needles plus needles 0.25 mm larger. You will need a spare needle in the smallest size.

•Notions
yarn needle, scrap yarn, fluffy stuffing (roving polyfill), weighted stuffing (poly pellets, dried lentils, aquarium gravel)

This pattern has been tech edited and test knit.