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It’s a cat, it’s a dog, bear or rabbit. Oh My!
Updated Sept 2006
By Fiberstar – Samantha M. Stopple
Copyright 2006 - For your personal use or charity work only please do not make to sell for your profit unless you contact me first. Thanks
Materials:
3-4oz of Worsted weight yarn in color(s) of your choice. Red Heart is a good choice.
F hook or hook that gets you a dense crocheted fabric (some were able to use a G hook)
Embroidery floss for eyes, nose, mouth, etc.
Embroidery needle or sewing needle a sharp one is best
Pins
Larger eyed needed to sew body parts together
Poly Fiber Fill
Stitch marker (yarn scarps work great for this!)
Felt (optional)
Animals/doll eyes (optional)
Finished doll size using ww yarn is approximately 9.5 inches long not including ears.
See more finished dolls here.
Notes:
DO NOT join rounds unless otherwise noted. Use a scrap of yarn or stitch marker to mark the beginning of each round.
Leave a 10” tail for all body parts. You will use this when you sew the animal together.
You don’t need to weave in your beginning ends just stuff them into the body parts.
A great place to find tips to make animals is here
Fill with stuffing so it’s full enough that you get a fairly firm shape but not too full that you are over stretching the fabric.
Gauge:
When making animals or amigurumi, I like a dense crocheted fabric so gauge is not necessarily important. Go for as dense a fabric you can without going to a hook size that makes crocheting difficult. I am including my gauge so you have a place to start when choosing your hook size.
5sc in 1”
5rows in 1”
Try for something close to this gauge or a crocheted fabric that seems solid/dense.
Start doing the head, complete 6-7 rows then check your guage. If it seem off go to a smaller or larger hook.
Stitches/Skills: slip stitch, sc, sc dec, and magic adjustable ring (magic ring)
Magic adjustable ring instructions can be found here
Head:
Note: Magic ring is the same as the magic adjustable ring and will be referred to as such throughout
R1: Magic ring, Ch1, 8sc in the ring, pull ring closed (8sc)
Note: Mark the beginning of each round before you start this will help you know the beginning/end of each new round
R2: (2sc in each sc) repeat around (16sc)
R3: (1sc in the nxt sc, 2sc in the nxt sc) repeat around (24 sc)
R4: (1 sc in the nxt 2sc, 2sc in the nxt sc) repeat around (32sc)
R5-13: 1sc in each sc around (32sc)
R14: (1 sc in nxt 2sc, 1 sc dec) repeat around (24sc)
Note:
If you are going to use doll/animals eyes you will need to attach them now. If you are using embroidery floss you can wait until after the animal is assembled. Place the eyes about 1” a part on the 6th or 7th row
R15: sc dec around (12sc)
Add stuffing
R16: (1sc in nxt 2sc, 1sc dec) around (9sc), slip st into the next stitch
Fasten off leaving a 10-12” tail
Add more stuffing if needed
Body:
R1: Magic ring, ch1, 8sc in the ring, pull ring closed (8sc)
Note: Mark the beginning of each round before you start this will help you know the beginning/end of each new round
R2: (2sc in each sc) repeat around (16sc)
R3: (1sc in the nxt sc, 2sc in the nxt sc) repeat around (24 sc)
R4: (1 sc in the nxt 3sc, 2sc in the nxt sc) repeat around (30sc)
R5 –16: 1 sc in each sc around (30sc)
R17: (1sc, 1 sc dec) repeat around (20sc)
R18: sc dec around (10sc)
Add stuffing
R19: (1 sc in next 3sc, 1 sc dec) repeat around, slip st into the next stitch (8sc)
Fasten off leaving a 10” tail
Add more stuffing if needed
Set these aside and next week we will start on the arms, legs and more.
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