When you choose the yarn for your toy, please, pay attention to length/weight (meters per grams (m/g) or yards per grams of yarn(yard/g)), it should be maximum similar to a yarn described in a pattern (if you choose thinner or thicker yarn you need to be ready that the finished result will be different).
Materials.
Yarn: YarnArt Jeans (50 g/160 m, 55% cotton, 45% pac);
Color: 53 black – 1 skein,
– 58 green – 1 skein;
– 77 orange – 1 skein;
• Fiberfill
Tools:
• Crochet Hook 2 mm
• Needles for sewing: long and short with a large eyelet for sewing parts
Special abbreviation:
St(s) – Stitch(es)
Sc – Single Crochet
Inc – Increase
Dec – Decrease
Hdc – Half double crochet
Sl st- slip stitch
BLO = back loops only
FLO = front loops only
Pumpkin
Row 1. 6 sc in MR
Row 2. 6 inc (12)
Row 3. (1 sc, inc) х 6 rep (18)
Row 4. (2 sc, inc) х 6 rep (24)
Row 5. (3 sc, inc) х 6 rep (30)
Row 6. (4 sc, inc) х 6 rep (36)
Row 7. (5 sc, inc) х 6 rep (42)
Row 8. (6 sc, inc) х 6 rep (48)
Row 9. (7 sc, inc) х 6 rep (54)
Row 10. (8 sc, inc) х 6 rep (60)
Row 11 – 17. 60 sc
Row 18. (8 sc, dec) х 6 rep (54)
Row 19. (7 sc, dec) х 6 rep (48)
Row 20. (6 sc, dec) х 6 rep (42)
Row 21. (5 sc, dec) х 6 rep (36)
Row 22. (4 sc, dec) х 6 rep (30)
Row 23. (3 sc, dec) х 6 rep (24)
Start stuffing the pumpkin. Keep adding a bit of fiberfill after every few rounds, firmly stuffing pumpkin.
Row 24. (2 sc, dec) х 6 rep (18)
Row 25. (1 sc, dec) х 6 rep (12)
Row 26. 6 dec
Finish stuffing. Cut the yarn, leaving a long yarn tail, and close the opening.
Once the hole is closed just take the rest of the tail and put your needle from the bottom directly into the top hole (beginning of the magic ring) and pull tightly. Repeat this until you have 6 sections.
Peduncle.
Working with green yarn in continuous rounds.
Row 1. 6 sc in MR
Row 2. BLO 6 sc
Row 3 – 4. 6 sc
Row 5. (2 sc, inc) х 2 rep (8)
Row 6. (3 sc, inc) х 2 rep (10)
Row 7. (4 sc, inc) х 2 rep (12)
Row 8. (2 sc in one st) х 12 rep (24)
Cut the yarn, leaving a long yarn tail, and close the opening.
Leaf.
Working with green yarn in continuous rounds.
Row 1. 6 ch in the 2nd st:
inc, 3 sc, 4 sc in one st, 3 sc, inc (14)
(second sc) 1 hdc, 1 dc
(third sc) 1 dc, 1 tr, 3 sc, 1 sl st
(fourth sc) 1 sl st
(fifth sc) 1 sl st, 1 ch, 1dc, 2 tr, 1 ch
(sixth sc) 2 tr, 1 dc, 2 ch, 1 sl st
(seventh sc) 1 sl st
(eighth sc) 1 sl st, 3 ch, 1 tr, 1 dc
(ninth sc) 2 dc, 1 hdc
(tenth sc) 3 hdc, 1 ch, 1sl st
Cut the yarn, leaving a long yarn tail, and close the opening.
Tendril.
Working with green yarn
Row 1. 20 ch in the 2nd st: 19 sc
Cut the yarn, leaving a long yarn tail, and close the opening.
Assembly
Sew the peduncle to the pumpkin.
Sew the tendril to the pumpkin.
Sew a leaf to the pumpkin.
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