Chilled
It's the first properly cold morning of the season here. The kind where you step outside (still in your jammies because that's been fine for the last six months and you've sort of forgotten about coats) and gasp and remember that winter is on its way. And, while I'm not actually at all ready for it to be winter, it does seem like a fitting morning to introduce our little penguin buddies. Their names are Penny and Gwen, and they run the local ice skating rink and throw really excellent parties. No really, their fancy dress ball is the social [...]
Preparations
Shall we have a little shopping list for our penguin buddies? These are actually built on much the same structure as their friends the owls and foxes, so I am going to scandalously reuse my own earlier work and link to an old blog post where I ran down the owl innards in detail. But the short version is I knit all my buddies with a fingering-weight yarn (just coincidentally, pretty much always Seven Sisters Arts because I swear my stash is like a quarter her stuff and I regret nothing) held double with a silk and mohair lace-weight yarn. [...]
Liaison
Gwen has proven to be a very adept tentacle wrangler. Relations between the townsfolk and the tentacled overlords are sure to improve now that she's acting as liaison between groups involved. Should you find yourself in need of your own penguin assistant, the pattern for our little friend should be out next week!
Swimmingly
Ok, so I know he's made a few brief appearances, but I don't think you've been properly introduced to our little friend here. Which really, seems like a shame. Because I suspect the two of you will get along swimmingly.
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