This little robot has all of the most important features: wheels for speeding around on adventures, dials and gauges, an antenna for communicating important messages (or chewing on), long arms for reaching everything and a pocket for carrying your most treasured toys and trinkets. The body, head and antenna are worked in the round in one piece and stitches for the arms and wheels are picked up from the stuffed body. The pocket is actually a solution to a technical problem, I didn’t want to deal with working the intarsia panels on the front in the round, but nor did I want a seam: the pocket panel neatly fills the space.

YARN

Chunky / heavy aran weight yarn in 2 colours: approx 150yds / 140m of each colour. 

NEEDLES AND NOTIONS

US 7 / 4.5mm 16˝ / 40cm circular and dpns or long circular(s) for preferred method of working small circumferences in the rnd.

Stitch markers, toy stuffing (eg. polyfill or wool).

GAUGE

17 sts and 26 rnds = 4˝ / 10cm in st st in the rnd. Because the finished size isn’t important different yarn weights can be used. Use a needle 2-3 sizes smaller than the suggested needle for that yarn to obtain a tight gauge that won’t allow stuffing to show through.

SIZES

Approx 10˝ / 25cm tall, not including antenna.