Augustine had a lovely little frolic in the garden outside my office building yesterday.
I must give credit to Yoelknits, since she suggested the name for this little cutie. There were lots of great names suggested, but I’m a sucker for the fanciful.

Pattern: Aubergine, in Amigurumi Knits

Yarn: stash yarn- the purple is acrylic, the green is superwash merino. Machine washable is necessary when making plushies that might be given to small kids.

Needles: 3.25 mm dpns.

Mods: Well, the limbs and face aren’t part of the pattern. I embroidered the face on, although I’m not sure if I feel that the eyes turned out as well as I would have liked. I knit the arms by casting on 13 stitches onto dpns and working in the round for 1 inch. The decrease round was k2tog to the last stitch, k1. Next round: knit. Do the decrease round again, thread yarn through remaining for stitches. The legs were exactly the same, only I made them 2.5 inches before doing the first decrease round, and I angled the feet up by just adjusting the polyester fill inside. Augustine Aubergine is very excited to match the bearded irises!

Notes: The actual needle size called for is 3.75, but I couldn’t find mine when I was looking to cast on, and figured a slightly small and more densely knit plushie wouldn’t be a bad thing. I still stand by the needle choice, I think it worked out well.
She does sit up on her own quite well, and has a nice plump shape. The pattern was well written and error-free, and was a really quick knit. I should mention that it is designed to have no seaming, which is incredible! I stitched the bottom of the green leaves down, which has created some shadowing across her face, but otherwise I’m really pleased with it. She’s going to make a nice little gift to a friend’s little one!