Bing

Bing Chocolate Orange Cover Toy by Andrew Lucas

Product Overview

Bing is a beginner-friendly knitted toy design by independent designer Andrew Lucas, perfect for creating an approximately 18 centimeter stuffed companion. This downloadable PDF pattern guides crafters through constructing a charming knitted figure using basic knitting techniques and colorful yarn scraps.

What Is Being Made

This pattern produces a soft, stuffed knitted toy approximately 18 centimeters in size. The design features a segmented construction with a distinct body, shoulders, and head, allowing for creative color blocking and visual interest through strategic yarn color changes.

Materials Required

• Needles: 3.25mm knitting needles
• Yarn: Oddments of double knitting wool in red, black, green, yellow, lemon, beige, brown, and white
• Notions: Small amount of stuffing material for filling the completed toy

Knitting Techniques and Stitches

This beginner pattern employs fundamental knitting techniques suitable for crafters new to the craft. The construction utilizes several essential stitch types and methods:

• Stocking Stitch (st st): The primary fabric structure, created by alternating knit rows and purl rows to produce a smooth, uniform surface
• Garter Stitch (gs): An all-knit stitch creating a textured, ridged fabric
• Ribbed Knit: Alternating knit and purl stitches in the same row (K1, P1 pattern) for elastic, fitted sections
• Increase (inc): Stitch multiplication techniques to expand the fabric width, particularly used to shape the head and establish the initial body width
• Decrease (dec/k2tog): Knitting two stitches together to reduce stitch count and shape the shoulders and head closure
• Break and Thread (B & T): A finishing technique where yarn is broken leaving a long end, threaded through remaining stitches, and pulled tight to gather and close sections

Pattern Construction

The toy is constructed in three main sections:

• Body: Cast on 25 stitches in red wool, immediately increase in every stitch to create 50 stitches for width. Ribbed knit sections provide structure and elasticity before shaping the shoulders
• Shoulders: Decrease stitches by knitting two together to taper from the body width down to 25 stitches
• Head: Transition to black wool with increases to expand to 37 stitches, then work 17 rows of stocking stitch for the main head fabric before decreasing back to 25 stitches for closure

Skill Level

Classified as a beginner project, Bing requires only basic knitting knowledge. Crafters need familiarity with casting on, knit and purl stitches, increases, decreases, and basic finishing techniques. The straightforward construction and use of fundamental stitches make this an excellent introductory toy pattern for developing essential knitting skills.