Knitted Stellated Icosahedron Toy Pattern.pdf

Cast on 21sts in first colour, distributing evenly across three needles. Knit in the round for 3 rows, then knit fourth row as K5K2tog x3. Repeat this process, changing colours and decreasing stitches, until 3sts remain on each needle. Break yarn, leaving a 5 inch tail, and thread this end through all 9 stitches, working round in a circle and pull tight. This will leave a triangular cone.

Pick up 7sts along the bottom edge of the cone, working from left to right, and cast on another 14sts, making another triangle on three needles as before. Repeat this process to make another cone, starting on a free edge of the second cone, and the fourth cone on the free edge of the third nearest to the existing cones. For the fifth cone, pick up one edge from the fourth cone and one from the first, making a circle of five cones.

Continue knitting cones by picking up 7sts from an existing cone, always making sure there are 5 cones meeting at a point. Each time you get a circle of 5 cones, close up any hole in the middle by sewing around the hole with a wool needle. When finished, you should have 20 cones arranged so there are 5 around each point, and the last one will be knitted from edges picked up from three existing cones.

Stuff the inside of the toy with flame retardant toy stuffing, filling the final cone as you knit it, so the whole thing is stuffed when you tie off.