Rudolph the red nosed...... pee pee?
- Hook Line and Crafter
- Oct 10, 2022
- 2 min read
Updated: Aug 1
WARNING AGE RATE 18!!! (Well, mostly)
So it's getting close to Christmas at this point, and I'm looking to do some more difficult patterns and feel I'm up to buying a pattern also. So I'm scrolling, scrolling, scrolling... Then im rolling. I am literally on the couch in tears, loving this pattern. It's a reindeer, accept it's not a PENIS!! And I love him.
He was a simple pattern for the most part. The antlers and head were the most complicated parts.
For the body, you simply started with a magic ring and worked till the circumference was right, then you continued that till the bottom, throw in some safety eyes and close up boom. For the ears, it's the same thing, accepted these were then sewn closed at the end and closed again to make this closed ear shape. The "leg"...(balls) and nose were done as basic circles. Now, as for the antlers, these were fascinating. So I started with a magic ring, but this was a tiny magic ring with like 3 or 4 sc rather than the 6, I've never done one this small. It's safe to say it took more than one attempt. Once at the right size, you do a continual round, then stop and cut the yarn and make an even smaller one. Accept for this one, you keep the yarn joined, and you join on the bigger antler. This is where I got cocky.
It seemed so easy, I didn't check my stitches wasn't till I went to stuff them, I noticed this GIANT hole, right where the two sizes joint together. Time to riiiiiiiiip it. Otherwise known as frogging it. Now 2nd time lucky... I wish. I think I redid this about 15 times before I finally gave up and just stitched the hole closed. This is a technique I will come to use a few times in future products, and I will eventually learn the secret to no holes, but that's a spoiler!
After giving up on the holes and just doing it my way, all that was left was to add it all together. Sewing it together was fairly easy; they had lots of information on
the pattern, and bang, Rudolph was born. NOT. I had to do the head. This was the bane of my life. So you have to go under the stitches done to create a "slip stitch". This is a basic lop stitch, very easy to do, except when you're doing it under stitches. Once I had worked this stitching out, I also had to make that very obvious shape. That, to be honest, only actually took a couple of tries. I think all in all, it's a good.
All in all, a great pattern, and I loved making him. Fun fact: my son fell in love with him. He thinks it's just a reindeer, bless him, but my mum does not approve of this toy for him. Hahaha.
Pattern was throught Etsy: Festive Wiwi Crochet Pattern Collection by Miguel Crochet
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