Baby Giraffe - Amigurumi
Pattern
You will need:
- Cotton yarn: yellow, brown, dark orange and a bit of black thread (for the eyes);
- Hook: 3mm
- Needle: for sewing parts together
- Filler
Abbreviations:
- sc - single crochet
- inc - increase (two single crochets in the same stitch)
- dec - decrease (single crochet two stitches together)
- (..) - represents the sequence that will repeat
- x and number - the number of times to repeat a sequence
- [..] - the number between square brackets is the number of loops at the end of row
Notes:
Use stitch markers on the first chain of each row so you can easily keep count.
This final toy has a height of about 26cm/10iches.
The pattern is written in US terminology.
Head:
Start by using the yellow yarn:
Row 1: 6 sc in magic circle - [6]
Row 2: (inc) x6 - [12]
Row 3: (sc, inc) x6 - [18]
Row 4: (2 sc, inc) x6 - [24]
Row 5: (3 sc, inc) x6 - [30]
Row 6: (4 sc, inc) x6 - [36]
Row 7: (5 sc, inc) x6 - [42]
Row 8: (6 sc, inc) x6 - [48]
Row 9: (7 sc, inc) x6 - [54]
Row 10-20: sc in each loop - [54]
Sew the eyes in between rows 15 and 16 in between distance of 13 loops.
Row 21: (7 sc, dec) x6 - [48]
Row 22: (6 sc, dec) x6 - [42]
Row 23: (5 sc, dec) x6 - [36]
Row 24: (4 sc, dec) x6 - [30]
Row 25: (3 sc, dec) x6 - [24]
Add filling
Row 26: (2 sc, dec) x6 - [18]
Row 27: (sc, dec) x6 - [12]
Finish filling the head.
Muzzle:
Use brown color yarn.
Row 1: chain 8
Continue working around the foundation chain, beginning from 2nd chain from the hook.
Row 2: 6 sc, 4 sc in the next loop, 5 sc, 3 sc in the next loop - [18]
Row 3: (6 sc, inc x 3) x2 - [24]
Row 4: (7 sc, inc, sc, inc, sc, inc) x2 - [30]
If you see that the muzzle is too short at this point then here is how you can continue;
Row 5 (optional): (8 sc, inc, 2 sc, inc, 2 sc, inc) x2 - [36]
Rows 5-8 (or 6-10 in case you did the optional one): sc in each loop [30 or 36]
Close leaving a long thread for sewing. The muzzle will be filled while sawing it on the head.
Ears:
Use yellow yarn. Make two of these.
Row 1: 6 sc in magic circle - [6]
Row 2: (inc) x6 - [12]
Row 3: (sc, inc) x6 - [18]
Row 4-8: sc in each loop - [18]
Close leaving a long thread for sewing. Fold the ears and sew them on the head.
Horns:
Use orange yarn. Make two of these.
Row 1: 6 sc in magic circle - [6]
Row 2: (inc) x6 - [12]
Row 3: (sc, inc) x6 - [18]
Row 4: dec - [9]
Fill this part.
Row 5: dec, 4 sc, dec - [6]
Row 6: sc in each loop - [6]
Close leaving a thread for sewing. Sew horns on the head.
Legs:
Start with brown yarn.
Row 1: 6 sc in magic circle - [6]
Row 2: (inc) x6 - [12]
Row 3: (3 sc, inc) x3 - [15]
Change the color to yellow.
Row 4: (4 sc, inc) x 3 - [18]
Row 5: (5 sc, inc) x3 - [21]
Row 6: sc in each loop - [21]
Row 7: (6 sc, inc) x3 - [24]
Row 8: (7sc, inc) x3 - [27]
Row 9: sc in each loop - [27]
Follow steps again to make another one. Close knitting on 1st leg, but not on the 2nd one.
Take both legs and start to connect them - sc 27 loops for first leg, then go to the second one. As a result, you get 54 loops.
Body:
Continue knitting legs together.
rows 1-2:sc in each loop - [54]
row 3:(17 sc, inc) x3 - [57]
rows 4-5:sc in each loop - [57]
row 6:(18 sc, inc) x3 - [60]
rows 7-9:sc in each loop - [60]
row 10:(18 sc, dec) x3 - [57]
rows 11-12:sc in each loop - [57]
row 13:(17 sc, dec) x3 - [54]
rows 14-15:sc in each loop - [54]
row 16:(16sc, dec) x3 - [51]
rows 17-18:sc in each loop - [51]
row 19:(15 sc, dec) x3 - [48]
rows 20-21:sc in each loop - [48]
row 22:(14 sc, dec) x3 - [45]
rows 23-24:sc in each loop - [45]
row 25:(13 sc, dec) x3 - [42]
rows 26-27:sc in each loop - [42]
row 28:(12 sc, dec) x3 - [39]
rows 29-30:sc in each loop - [39]
row 31:(11 sc, dec) x3 - [36]
rows 32-33:sc in each loop - [36]
row 34:(10 sc, dec) x3 - [33]
rows 35-36:sc in each loop - [33]
row 37:(9 sc, dec) x3 - [30]
rows 38-39:sc in each loop - [30]
row 40:(8 sc, dec) x3 - [27]
rows 41-42:sc in each loop - [27]
Close leaving a long thread for stitching with the head. Fill up. Now sew the head to the body.
Hands:
Start with brown yarn. Make two of these.
row 1: 6 sc in magic circle - [6]
row 2: inc in each loop - [12]
row 3: sc in each loop - [12]
Start filling this part and continue filling throughout the work. Change color to yellow.
rows 4-10: sc in each loop - [12]
row 11: (4 sc, dec) x2 - [10]
rows 12-15: sc in each loop - [10]
row 16: 8 sc, dec - [9]
rows 17-20: sc in each loop - [9]
row 21: 7 sc, dec - [8]
rows 22-25: sc in each loop - [8]
row 26: 6 sc, dec - [7]
rows 27-28: sc in each loop - [7]
Smooth the upper part of the hand and close it with 2 sc. Close leaving a long thread for sewing.
Stains:
Use orange yarn. Make 10 of these.
Row 1: 5 sc in magic circle - [5]
Row 2: inc x4, sc x2 - [10]
Close leaving a long thread for sewing.
Tail:
Make 8 sc yellow. Close.
Continue with one row of single crochet stitches. Attach the orange thread ending. Sew the tail onto the body.
Sew all the parts.
Done!
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