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Giraffe
Ready-made height about 50 cm, crocheted from Himalaya Dolphin Baby yarn (colors: 330 mustard, 302 yellow and 308 milky white), crocheted 4.5. For all the tempting volumetric plush loops, I highly recommend knitting tightly, otherwise there is a very high risk of ugly holes between the loops, especially on the folds of the upper and lower legs and neck, which you should try to fill very tightly. I did not dare to insert the stick inside (by the way, the tightly packed neck of the giraffe living in our house and after a year of use looks good, although it was tied much thinner).
Abbreviations
ch- chain
sc- single crochet
inc- increase
dec- decrease
sl-st – slip stitch
PATTERN
Upper legs:
1. Mustard color, 6 sc
2. Inc * 6 = 12
3. (sc, inc) * 6 = 18
4. (5sc, inc) * 3 = 21
5-7. (3 rows) = 21
8. (5sc, dec) * 3 = 18
9. (sc, dec) * 6 = 12
Change the color to yellow.
10-32. (23 rows) = 12, having knitted the first 4-5 rows, fill the lower part of the leg tightly.
33. (4sc, dec) = 10, stuff the leg not very tightly, fold the knitting in half, knit 5 sc, fasten the thread, hide the tail. Similarly, we knit the second upper leg.
Torso:
1.Yellow, 6sc
2. Inc * 6 = 12
3. (sc, inc) * 6 = 18
4. (2sc, inc) * 6 = 24
5. (3sc, inc) * 6 = 30
6. (4sc, inc) * 6 = 36
7. (5sc, inc) * 6 = 42
8. (6sc, inc) * 7 = 48
9-18. (10 rows) = 48
19. (6sc, dec) * 6 = 42
20-22. (3 rows) = 42, gradually fill the body.
23. (5sc, dec) * 6 = 36
24-26. (3 rows) = 36
27. (4sc, dec) * 6 = 30
28. = 30
29. (13sc, dec) * 2 = 28
30. We knit the upper legs – 5sc, grabbing the leg, 9sc, 5sc, grabbing the leg, 9 sc = 28
31. (6sc, dec) * 4 = 24
32. (6sc, dec) * 3 = 21
33-45. (13 rows) = 21. The row ends approximately in the middle between the legs, we knit another 4-6 sc, so that the end of the row is approximately above the middle of the upper foot, fasten the thread. The side that turned out a little higher will be the back of the giraffe. We stuff the torso and, especially, the neck tightly and evenly.
Lower legs:
1. Mustard color, 6 sc
2. Inc * 6 = 12
3. (sc, inc) * 6 = 18
4. (2sc, inc) * 6 = 24
5-8. (4 rows) = 24
9. (2sc, dec) * 6 = 18
10. (4sc, dec) * 3 = 15
Change the color to yellow.
11-30. (20 rows) = 15, knitting the first 4-5 rows, fill the lower part of the leg tightly.
31. (3sc, dec) * 3 = 12, stuff the leg not very tightly, fold the knitting in half, knit 6 sc, fasten the thread, hide the tail. Similarly, we knit the second lower leg.
Head:
1.Milky white 6sc
2. Inc * 6 = 12
3. (sc, inc) * 6 = 18
4. (2sc, inc) * 6 = 24
5. (3sc, inc) * 6 = 30
6. (4sc, inc) * 6 = 36
7. = 36
8. (5sc, inc) * 6 = 42
9-11. (3 rows) = 42
Change the color to yellow
12-20. (9 rows) = 42
21. (5sc, dec) * 6 = 36
22. (4sc, dec) * 6 = 30
23. (3sc, dec) * 6 = 24
24. (2sc, dec) * 6 = 18, stuff the head
25. (sc, dec) * 6 = 12
26.dec * 6 = 6, pull together, fasten the thread and hide.
Horns:
1. Mustard color, 6 sc
2. Inc * 6 = 12
3. (sc, inc) * 6 = 18
4-6. (3 rows) = 18
7. (sc, dec) * 6 = 12
8. (sc, dec) * 6 = 8, fill the top of the horn, change the color to yellow.
9-15. (7 rows) = 8, fasten the thread. We fill the horns tightly. Similarly, we knit the second.
Ears:
1. In yellow, 6 sc
2. (sc, inc) * 3 = 9
3. = 9
4. (2sc, inc) * = 12
5. = 12
6. (3sc, inc) * 3 = 15
7. (4sc, inc) * 3 = 18
8. = 18
9. (3sc, inc, 4sc, inc) * 2 = 22
10. = 22, fold in half, knit 11 sc, in half more – 6 sc, fasten the thread and hide. We knit the second ear in the same way.
Assembly.
You can first sew on the head, and then sew on the horns, ears and eyes, it is more convenient for me to sew on the horns and ears before joining with the body. In any case, I recommend that you first outline their location on the head. The horns are sewn in a circle at a distance of 4-5 sc, a little lower 1-2 sc from them – ears. We outline the location of the head (a small back of the head, in front at the level of about 2 rows of yellow, symmetrically relative to the center), we also sew in a circle, when a small hole remains, add more filler to the neck, seal the junction, and close the hole, I recommend walking in a circle twice … Eyes (in my case – half-beads), eyebrows, nose, mouth we outline and sew.
Sew the lower legs at the level of 7-8 rows of the body (the last rows of increases), symmetrically relative to the upper legs at a distance of about 7 sc.
Tail. At the level of 7-8 rows of the body, in the middle, we tie 3 double plush strings (2 yellow and 1 mustard – we make 1 of them a little longer), we hide the knots inside the body. We braid the threads into a pigtail and fasten them with a longer one.
Spots. At your discretion, from experience – not everyone likes them. Mustard color: large specks – 6 sc; inc * 6 = 12sc, fix the thread; small specks – 6sc, fasten the thread. We knit the desired number of spots, outline their location and sew in a circle.
Mane. This giraffe has a mane made of “Kuzya Klubochkin” yarn, I think, “Lotus grass stretch” will do well. We cut double strings of the desired length and fasten them along the middle part of the back of the head from the horns to the base of the neck. Fold in half, hook on the loop and pull both ends into it, tighten. 3-4 threads in each row.
✨Your plush giraffe is ready!
I really hope that the description will be useful to you.
Knit with pleasure!
