Yip Yip Pattern

So I finally made a pattern to accompany my yip yip pattern. It's not the first pattern I've made, but certainly the first one I've typed up and wasn't too lazy to actually post.

I made the yip yip practically free-hand, winged it, without a pattern. The eyes I had help from a friend who knew the straw trick.

enjoy!

  

This one is different from the other yip yip I made. If you don't remember, the other one was blue and this one is also bigger.

Yip Yip Pattern

Materials

Any size hook and any size yarn (~3 colors: 1 for body, 2 for eyes (iris/pupil and white of eyes)

1 straw

Abbreviations

Ch: chain

Sl st: slip stitch

Sc: single crochet

St(s): stitch(es)

Body

ch 15 then join to beginning to chain with sl st

Round 1-5: sc evenly around 4x (or until the diameter of circle is about equal to the height)

Now you will be going back and forth making rows along one half of the circle. Rows will slowly decrease

Row 6: sc 7 sts

Row 7: turn, sc from 2^nd ch from hook (do not turn, ch1. Just turn). Sc evenly to end (1^st st in Row 5)

Row 8-10: turn, sc from 2^nd ch from hook. Sc evenly to end.

The edges of Row 6-10 will be sewn together, folding inwards towards center of circle rounds. But don’t sew them yet!

Eyes Make 2

Take the straw and cut off a length of about ¼” but any size you’re comfortable with is fine as well.

- Leave tail of yarn to be used later, ~2”. Take the white yarn threaded through yarn needed and loop in and out of straw so yarn will cover the straw.

- After covering straw, make sure to take the yarn and make it go across the top of the straw (the tail is sticking out the bottom of straw), then loop underneath opposite yarn on outside, close to bottom if possible, and tie off. (red: end of yarn; green: yarn already wrapped around straw. Red goes under green)

-Now swap to the iris/pupil color, and thread from bottom of straw to top of straw, and thread around the yarn that went across straw in previous step. Repeat until desired iris size and reached.

-(Assembly) Take each eye and place somewhere in Row 6-10, where when sides are sewn together, the eye placement is where you want it. Thread tail end of eye down through the “head” of the body and tie off. Sew sides of head together.

Tail end

This part is pretty much a bunch of fringe ends.

-Cut off several quite lengthy pieces of yarn, I believe I used about 10” or so.

-Grab center of single yarn length, pull through 1 st at bottom of circle round. There should now be a loop, now pull the two tail ends through the loop.

-Take each loop and crochet to end, tie off.

-Repeat until entire circle round is full of fringes.

Crocodile Stitching

Holy Moo Cow! I did not realize that something like this existed. I honestly have been slowing down on my crocheting project. I have an hat, a dog, and a Pac Man ghost that are only partially done and are sitting on my coffee table. I just hadn't had any interest in crocheting for me to finish those projects.

Then I learned about crocodile stitching!! I found this blog here while rummaging through the interwebz
http://yarn-muse.blogspot.com/2011/01/crocodile-stitch.html

I don't know why I didn't think of looking up new kinds of stitches. I guess during the process of just learning to crochet, I'd only found projects that require the knowledge of magic rings, single and double crochets, and hook sizes. When making hats, hook sizes changes the hats slightly. The pac man ghosts was a bunch of circular crocheting. And well basically, everything involved circles. So I guess finding projects that only required that, I just forgot that there's probably other creative things to do other than circles. So taaaa-ddaaahhh introducing crocodile stitching.

This is the first I've ever heard of it, so it'll take me a couple of days to finish up the projects I already have going, then start making other things with crocodile stitching. Yay! My enthusiasm for crocheting has once again returned. I'm so excited!!