Happy Toast! By Frances Earnshaw.
Essentially, this fun litle amigurumi is a rectangle, but you want to give it toast-like qualities! You will also need to embroider the happy face on, to give it character... Materials: A few metres of 4ply or sock, preferably asking to be finished off from a previous project, and in toasty colours. I used Schoppel-Wolle Zauberball for the bread and doubled this with a darker brown for the crust. Working your crust double makes it thicker and tastier. You will need a small amount of black or very dark lace-weight for embroidering the face. Notions: 3.25 mm needles. A tapestry needle. Gauge: Needs to be firm, so keep your needles small.
How To:
Cast on 12 with your bread and crust colours, working the two yarns together. Work three rows SS with the two yarns together. All further rows are Ss, but knit your crust! Next Row, RS: work two stitches of the two yarns together (crust) and then work just the paler colour to the end of the row. NR: work two sts with the two yarns together, then work SS in paler colour to end of the row. Repeat the last two rows until you have worked five or six more rows, or until you like the toast shape ( bread is usually slightly taller than it is wide, but mine came out wide!) NR: Use both yarns to work a garter stitch crust on top (three rows.) Next: Turn your work 90 degrees, so that the un-crusted side is facing up. Pick up the first edge stitch from the edge, and knit it with the two yarns together, and continue like this down to the bottom of your toast. Cut your yarns and loop through that last stitch. Use your tapestry needle to finish off, weaving in ends. I had the odd hole where the crust needed to be stitched more neatly to the bread. Embroider the cute eyes and mouth. Use the darker brown yarn to catch a little dint in the top-middle of your toast, to give it a more bread-like appearance. Key-ring optional!
