Grey Cat
Designed by Pogorielova Masha (mashutkalu) (с)2012
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Note: this toy is crocheted in continuous spirals in bothloops wrong side out, do not join or turn if otherwise is not instructed. Mark the first stitch of each round. In parentheses you can see se e the quantity of sts in each round or the number of rounds that are crocheted without any changes. As the toy is crocheted in spirals it is a good idea to check whether some parts like the nose or the cheeks are on their places. It is always possible to turn the head or the body a little so that a remov removed ed part gets its right place. The stuffing will fix the position.
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Abbreviations: Abbreviations: ch – chain sl st – slip stitch sc – sing s ingle le crochet (pull up a loop and then yarn over and pull it through again) dec – decrease (2 sc crochet together) together) inc – increase (crochet 2 sc in i n the the next st) hdc – half double crochet hdc.dec – half half double crochet cro chet decrease (2 hdc together) together) hdc.incc – half double crochet increase (2 hdc in the hdc.in the next st) wh – with white yarn dk- with dark yarn lt – with light yarn st(s) – stitch(s) Materials and supplies: supplies: - Light, dark and white white yarn with with mohair I used 40% mohair 60% acrylic yarn 500m. in 100g. and #1,25 Clover hook. I needed about 45 g of white, 30 g of light and 20 g of dark yarn. - toy stuffing - a tapestry needle to t o sew the parts of the toy aand nd a smaller needle needle to embroider the the nose and sew the eyes - embroidery embroidery 6 strand st rand floss (choose the colors you like for the nose and for the eyes + black) or you can use some toy eyes and a toy nose nose instead of making making them - a little of thin white cotton yarn. I use DMC Perle cotton #8.
-a piece of velcro to m make ake the cat more fluffy fluffy
How to change the colors: Change the Change t he colors crocheting the last st s t (sc or hdc or decrease) For example, if you need to crochet 2 sc lt, 5 sc dk, 4 sc lt Do 1 sc light, light, doing the se cond sc insert the hook into the next st ya yarn rn over with ligh lightt yarn and draw dra w – you will get two li ght loops on the hook. Yarn over with dark yarn a yarn and nd draw dark yarn through two light loops on the hook th Then crochet 4 sc with dark, doing the last las t 5 dark sc yarn over and draw with dark yarn and then draw light yarn through two dark loops on the hook. Do 4 more sc light. If the block of one color ends with decrease – draw two loops of the previous color and then draw through three loops on the hook with next color:
Cut the yarn ya rn every time you change the color and tie the tails in pairs inside the cat c at and you will not have any deformations as if you were pulling the yarn inside till you need nee d it. 2
Front paw (make 2) With white yarn. 2 ch, 6 sc in the 2d ch from the hook 1 – 2 6 inc (12) 2 – 6 (1 sc, inc) 6 times (18) 3 – (1 4 – (2 (2 sc, inc) 6 times (24) (3 sc, inc) 6 times (30) 5 – (3 15 sc, 15 hdc (30) 6 – 15 15 sc, (hdc, hdc.dec) 5 times (25) 7 – 15 15 sc, (hdc, hdc.dec) 3 times, hdc (22) 8 – 15 9 – 4 4 sc, (inc, 2 sc) 2 times, t imes, inc, 5 sc, (dec, 1 sc) 2 ttimes imes (23) 19 sc, (inc, 1 sc) 2 times (25) 10 – 19 25 sc 11 – 25 3 sc, dec, 10 sc, dec, 8 sc (23) 12 – 3 13 – (3 (3 sc, dec) 3 times, 8 sc (20) 15 – 20 sc (2 rounds) 14 – 15 8 sc, dec, 10 sc (19) 16 – 8 17 – 21 – 19 sc (5 rounds) 22 – (5 sc, inc) 2 times, 7 sc (21) 23 – 26 – 21 21 sc (4 rounds) Fasten off
Bottom Start with white yarn (wh). Be ready to change the color to dark (dk) and light yarn (lt). 1 – 10 10 ch, crochet the chains cha ins around starting from the 2d chain cha in from the hook: 8 sc, 3 sc in the last cch, h, on the other side: 8 sc, 1 sc in the ch that was skipped at the beginning (20) 2 – inc, inc, 7 sc, 3 inc, 7 sc, 2 inc (26) 1 sc, inc, 7 sc, (1 sc, inc) 3 times, 7 sc, (1 sc, inc) 2 times (32) 3 – 1 4 – 2 2 sc, inc, 7 sc, (2 sc, inc) 3 times, 7 sc, (2 sc, inc) 2 times (38) 3 sc, inc, 7 sc, (3 sc, inc) 3 times, 7 sc, (3 sc, inc) 2 times (44) 5 – 3 6 – (3 (3 sc, inc) 5 times, 24 sc (49) (7 sc, inc) 6 times, 1 sc (55) 7 – (7 8 – 55 55 sc
25 sc.wh., 30 sc.dk (55) 9 – 25 25 sc.wh, 18 sc.dk, 8 sc.lt, 4 sc.dk (55) 10 – 25 27 sc.wh, 9 sc.lt, 9 sc.dk, 10 sc.lt (55) 11 – 27 12 – 26 26 sc.wh, 7 sc.lt, 14 sc.dk, 8 sc.lt (55)
27 sc.wh, 4 sc.dk, 8 sc.lt, 5 sc.dk, 6 sc.lt, 4 sc.dk., 1 sc.wh (55) 13 – 27 14 – 30 30 sc.wh, 5 sc.dk, 5 sc.lt, 12 sc.dk, 3 sc.wh (55) 3
32 sc.wh, 16 sc.dk, 3 sc.lt, 4 sc.wh (55) 15 – 32 55 sc.wh 16 – 55 17 – 29 29 sc.wh, 9 sc.lt, 8 sc.dk, 5 sc.lt, 4 sc.wh (55)
24 sc.wh, 8 sc.lt, 4 sc.dk, 4 sc.lt, 13 sc.dk, 2 sc.wh (55) 18 – 24 19 – wh: wh: (dec, 3 sc) 4 times lt: dec, 3 sc, dk: dec, 3 sc, 4 sc.lt, 10 sc.dk, 5 sc.lt, 6 sc.dk (49)
wh: (4 sc, dec) 2 times, 2 sc 20 – wh: dk: 2 sc, dec, 4 sc, dec, 1 sc 5 sc.lt, 7 sc.dk, lt: 10 sc, dec (44) 3 sc.lt, wh: (dec, 3 sc) 3 times, lt: dec, 24 sc (40) 21 – 3 16 sc.wh, 4 sc.dk, 4 sc.lt, 12 sc.dk, 4 sc.wh (40) 22 – 16 wh: (3 sc, inc) 3 times, 6 sc 23 – wh: 10 sc.dk, 5 sc.lt, 7 sc.dk (43) 24 – wh: lt: wh:3 (inc, 3 sc) dk: 5 times, sc, dec, 3 sc, dec, 2 sc,
lt: 1 sc, (dec, 3 sc) 2 times (44)
25 sc.wh, 4 sc.lt, 13 sc.dk, 2 sc.wh (44) 25 – 25 wh: (4 sc, inc) 4 times, 2sc, 26 – wh: 4 sc.lt, 14 sc.dk, 4 sc.wh (48) 24 sc.wh, dk: 2 sc, dec, 4 sc 27 – 24 lt: dec, 4 sc, dk: dec, 3 sc,
lt: 1 sc, dec, 2 sc.wh (44)
Do NOT cut the yarn, the body will be continued from this place Put the paws side by side as in the photos below and sew together – 4 sts of one paw to 4 sts of the other.
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After that put the sewed front paws in front of the Bottom part of the body (white part is front), skip 8 st after the mark and pin pin the paws to the next 15 sts – 7 sts sts of one paw to 7 st of the body, next next st of the body to the seam between two front paws, 7 sts of the second paw to 7 sts of the body.
Insert your hook into the loop where you interrupted crocheting the bottom part and continue crocheting the body from the same place.
Body wh: (1 sc, dec, 5 sc) on body, 1 sc between the paw and the body (in the seam or on one of the sewed sts), 28 – wh: 10 sc on the paw, 3 sc between the paws (in sewed st, in seam and in second sewed st – or just all three thr ee sts in the seam between two front paws), 10 sc on the second paw, 1 sc between the paw and the body, lt: 5 sc, dec, 2 sc, dk: 5 sc, dec, 5 sc (51) 29 – wh: wh: 19 sc, inc, 4 sc, 11 sc.lt, 16 sc.dk sc.dk.. (52)
wh: 19 sc, inc, 4 sc, 5 sc.lt, 4 sc.dk, 6 sc.lt, 13 sc.dk. (53) 30 – wh: 4 sc.lt, 24 sc.wh, 11 sc.dk, 6 sc.lt, 5 sc.dk, 3 sc.lt (53) 31 – 4 32 – 5 5 sc.lt, 25 sc.wh, 4 sc.dk, 9 sc.lt, 10 sc.dk (53) 5
3 sc.dk, 27 sc.wh, 6 sc.lt, dk: 8 sc, dec, 2 sc, 5 sc.lt (52) 33 – 3 3 sc.lt, dec.wh, 25 sc.wh, 3 sc.dk, 4 sc.lt, dec.lt, 1 sc.lt, 3 sc.dk, 3 sc.lt, dec.lt, 34 – 3 4 sc.lt (49) 35 – 4 4 sc.lt, 31 sc.wh, 9 sc.dk, 3 sc.lt, 2 sc.dk (49) 1 sc.dk, 4 sc.lt, 31 sc.wh, 3 sc.dk, 4 sc.lt, dec.dk, 4 sc.dk (48) 36 – 1 Add 6 more more sc.dk, 2 sc.wh, put the new mark here. It is a good idea to stuff the paws and the bottom part now now.. Continue to stuff the body while crocheting. I prefer to stuff the body when I have already done half of the head. Just a little tip – do not stuff the bottom of the paws very tough but be very careful while stuffing theirs upper parts and the place where they go into into the body! Hold both p paws aws together with your hand whil whilee stuffing stuff ing this will prevent your paws from going going apart. 37 – 27 27 sc.wh, dec.dk, 3 sc.dk, dec.dk, 4 sc.dk, dec.lt, 1 sc.lt, 3 sc.dk, dec.lt, 2 sc.lt (44) 26 sc.wh., 4 sc.lt, 3 sc.dk, dec.lt, 3 sc.lt, 6 sc.dk (43) 38 – 26 wh: 5 sc, dec, (6 sc, dec) 2 times, 1 sc, 39 – wh: 4 sc.lt, 6 sc.dk, 5 sc.lt, 3 sc.dk, 1 sc.wh (40)
40 sc.wh 40 – 40 21 sc.wh, 5 sc.dk, 4 sc.lt, 1 sc.dk, dec.dk, 2 sc.dk, 3 sc.lt, dec.lt (38) 41 – 21 42 – 3 3 sc.lt, 9 sc.wh, dec.wh, 7 sc.wh, 6 sc.lt, 4 sc.dk, dec.dk, 5 sc.dk (36) 43 – 2 2 19sc.wh sc.wh, 9 sc.dk, 6 sc.lt (36) 1 sc.dk, sc.lt, 35 (36) 44 – 1 36 sc.wh 45 – 36 46 – wh: wh: (4 sc, dec) 6 times (30) 30 sc.wh. 47 – 30 Do not cut the yarn continue to crochet the head.
Head wh: (4 sc, inc) 3 times, 4 sc, 48 – wh: lt: inc, (4 sc, inc) 2 times (36) 49 – 3 3 sc.lt, wh: (1 sc, inc, (4 sc, inc) 3 times, ti mes, 1 sc), lt: 3 sc, inc, (4 sc, inc) 2 times, 1 sc (43) 50 – lt: wh: lt: 3 (4 sc,sc, inc, inc) 4 times
lt: (4 sc, inc) 3 tim t imes, es, 4 sc (51) lt: 1 sc, inc, 1 sc 51 – lt: 27 sc. wh, lt: inc, (4 sc, inc) 4 times (57) Now it’s it’s time t ime to check where your mark is. The The 18th st after the t he mark should should be just in the middle in front of the head. If it is not move the mark of round beginning to the place you need. 4 sc.lt, 52 – 4 wh: 12 sc, 3 hdc in next st, 1 hdc, 3 hdc in next st, 12 sc 26 sc.lt (61) 6
(61) 53 – 5 sc.lt, wh: 11 sc, 8 hdc, 11 sc, 26 sc lt (61) 6 sc.lt, wh: 9 sc, 3 hdc in next st, hdc, hdc.inc, 2 dec, hdc.inc, hdc, 3 hd hdcc in next st, 11 sc 54 – 6 25 sc. lt (65) 7 sc.lt, wh: 8 sc, 7 hdc, 1 sl.st, 7 hdc, 9 sc, 26 sc.lt (65) 55 – 7 7 sc.lt, wh: 8 sc, hdc.dec, 3 hdc, hdc , hdc.dec, 3 hdc in next st, hdc.dec, 3 hdc, hdc.dec, 9 sc 56 – 7 26 sc.lt (63) 9 sc.lt, wh: 6 sc, 3 hdc.dec, 1 sc, s c, 3 hdc in next st, 1 sc, 3 hdc.dec, 4 sc, 57 – 9 2 sc.lt, 3 sc.wh, 24 sc.lt (59) 58 – 12 12 sc.lt, wh: 5 sc, dec, hdc, 3 hdc in next st, hdc, dec, 5 sc 4 sc.lt, 3 sc.wh, 23 sc.lt (59) 59 – 14 14 sc.lt, wh: 3 sc, dec, hdc, 2 hdc.inc, hdc .inc, hdc, dec, 4 sc, 5 sc.lt, 2 sc.wh, 23 sc.lt (59)
14 sc.lt, 13 sc.wh, 32 sc.lt (59) 60 – 14 lt: (5 sc, dec) 2 times, t imes, 4 sc, 61 – lt: (1 sc.wh, 1 sc.lt) 4 times, lt: 3 sc, (dec, 5 sc) 4 times, dec (52) Cut the white yarn, you will not need it for the head. Continue with light. 62 – 5 5 sc, dec, 12 sc, dec, 12 sc, dec, 5 sc, dec, 8 sc, dec (47) 63 – 4 4 sc, (dec, 5 sc) 5 times, 8 sc (42) 42 sc 64 – 42 (5 sc, dec) 6 times (36) 65 – (5 66 – (4 (4 sc, dec) 6 times (30) (3 sc, dec) 6 times (24) 67 – (3 (2 sc, dec) 6 times (18) 68 – (2 (1 sc, dec) 6 times (12) 69– (1
Fasten off Stuff the head, check out that the snout is also stuffed tough! Tighten the opening.
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Feet (make 2) With white. 2 ch, 6 sc in the 2d ch from the hook 1 – 2 6 inc (12) 2 – 6 (1 sc, inc) 6 times (18) 3 – (1 (2 sc, inc) 6 times (24) 4 – (2 5 15 6 times (3 15 sc, sc, inc) 15 hdc (30) (30) 6 – – (3 15 sc, (hdc, hdc.dec) 5 times (25) 7 – 15 8 – 15 15 sc, (hdc, hdc.dec) 3 times, hdc (22)
Fasten off, leave a long tail for for sewing. Pin the feet tto o the bottom (the part part crocheted with hdc is front). Stuff Stuff only the front halves, sew the feet fe et to the bottom. I stuff when I almost finish sewing. The halves of the feet fee t that are under the t he bottom should should stay flat. The stuffing will be fixed with ttightenings ightenings for the “fingers” later.
Ears (make 2) 2 ch, 6 sc in the 2d ch from the hook 1 – 2 2 – (2 (2 sc, inc) 2 times (8) (3 sc, inc) 2 times (10) 3 – (3 (4 sc, inc) 2 times (12) 4 – (4 (5 sc, inc) 2 times (14) 5 – (5 (6 sc, inc) 2 times (16) 6 – (6 7 – (7 (7 sc, inc) 2 times (18) (8 sc, inc) 2 times (20) 8 – (8 (9 sc, inc) 2 times (22) 9 – (9 (10 sc, inc) 2 times (24) 10 – (10 11 – (11 (11 sc, inc) 2 times (26) (12 sc, inc) 2 times (28) 12 – (12
Fasten off, leaving a tail for sewing.
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Tail Start with white. The tail is crocheted in short short color in intervals tervals so it’s better to pull the yarn insi inside de instead of cutting it every time. With white: 2 ch, 6 sc in the 2d ch from the hook (6) 1 – 2 2 – 6 6 inc (12) 3 – (2 (2 sc, inc) 4 times (16)
Cut the yarn you will not need it any more 4 – 8 8 hdc.dk, 8 sc.dk (16) 3 hdc.lt, 3 hdc.dk, 2 hdc.lt, 8 sc.lt (16) 5 – 3 2 hdc.lt, 3 hdc.dk, 3 hdc.lt, 8 sc.lt (16) 6 – 2 8 hdc.dk, 8 sc.dk (16) 7 – 8
3 hdc.lt, 3 hdc.dk, 2 hdc.lt, 8 sc.lt (16) 8 – 3 2 hdc.lt, 3 hdc.dk, 3 hdc.lt, 8 sc.lt (16) 9 – 2 4 hdc.lt, 2 hdc.dk, 2 hdc.lt, 8 sc.lt (16) 10 – 4 8 hdc.dk, 8 sc.dk (16) 11 – 8 Rounds 12-15 are exactly the same as rounds 8 – 11. Further the tail will be a little broader but the color pattern patter n will will stay the same. 12 – 3 3 hdc.lt, 3 hdc.dk, 2 hdc.lt, 8 sc.lt (16) 2 hdc.lt, 3 hdc.dk, 3 hdc.lt, 8 sc.lt (16) 13 – 2 4 hdc.lt, 2 hdc.dk, 2 hdc.lt, 8 sc.lt (16) 14 – 4 8 hdc.dk, 8 sc.dk (16) 15 – 8
3 hdc.lt, 3 hdc.dk, 2 hdc.lt, 8 sc.lt (16) 16 – 3 2 hdc.lt, 3 hdc.dk, 3 hdc.lt, 8 sc.lt (16) 17 – 2 4 hdc.lt, 2 hdc.dk, 2 hdc.lt, 8 sc.lt (16) 18 – 4 8 hdc.dk, 3 sc.dk, inc.dk, 4 sc.dk (17) 19 – 8 3 hdc.lt, 3 hdc.dk, 2 hdc.lt, 9 sc.lt (17) 20 – 3 2 hdc.lt, 3 hdc.dk, 3 hdc.lt, 9 sc.lt (17) 21 – 2 4 hdc.lt, 2 hdc.dk, 2 hdc.lt, 9 sc.lt (17) 22 – 4 23 – 8 8 hdc.dk, 4 sc.dk, inc.dk, 4 sc.dk (18)
3 hdc.lt, 3 hdc.dk, 2 hdc.lt, 10 sc.lt (18) 24 – 3 25 – 2 hdc.lt, (hdc.dec.dk, hdc.dk) 2 times , 3 sc.dk, sl.st dk Fasten off both yarns, leave a dark long tail for sewing. Stuff the tail a little. Pin the tail to the bottom as in the picture picture above a bove and sew. The tail point point is bended bended up. You can fix the tail position alongside the body sewing sewing the tail to the bottom with a few additional sstitc titches. hes.
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Pin the ears ea rs symmetrically symmetrically to the head he ad (behind it!) as in the photos below and sew. Sew the bac back k of the ears by the very edge and sew the front of the ears by the 2d or 3d round from the bottom.
Make tightenings to separate the “fingers” on all four feet. It is better to do with a thin cotton yarn like DMC Perle #8. You can mark the places for the tightenings (two on each foot) with pins so that the fingers fingers were about a bout the same size. Fix endthe ofleft a cotton piece thethrough top of one thetighten feet, pierce the Repeat foot to one the bottom then wave frontone as in photoyarn below andon pull the of foot, and fix. or two times morearound at the its same place and then t hen a few times for the second tig t ightening htening in about 1 cm interval ffrom rom the firs tightening. You should get three fingers on each foot as in the right photo below.
If your bottom part of the body is stuffed more tough than the front paw or you just made some extra effort tightening tightening the “ fingers” fingers” and your cat ca t tries to fall fa ll iin n front or just looks on its feet fee t it can ca n be easily corrected. Just fix a cotton yarn piece on one of the back paws, pierce through the bottom part of the body make a short interval without any fixing and pull the yarn through the bottom part to the second back paw. Pull the yarn and check out how the cat stands. If it starts to look up you shouldn’t shouldn’t pull so hard, if it still looks at its feet tighten a little more. When you got the position that seems perfect perfe ct fix the tig t ightening htening and hide the yarn tail t ail inside the body. (the photos are in the next page).
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Eyes (make 2) With 6 strand cotton embroidery floss with the color chosen by you for the eyes. 1 – 6 sl.st, ch, dosc,not join, the chains around beginning hdc, sc,crochet sl.st, ch, continue on the other side from the second ch from the hook sl.st, sc, hdc, sc, sl.st, ch 2 – sl.st, sc, hdc, sc, sl.st, ch Do not sew the eyes to the face till the tightenings are finished (p. 12 – 13 of this pattern) With long stitches embroider the black ovals in the middles of the eyes (a little closer to the inner corners) and white points in the outside up corners of the black ovals. It is easier to embroider while the eeyes yes are not sewed to the toy but it’s more difficult to make the particular face expression in this case. So you can embroider with black and white after sewing the eyes. Now it’s it’s time t ime to make a few tightenings on the muzzle and for the eyes.
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To make the tightenings take the same strong white cotton yarn as for the “fingers”. I use DMC Perle cotton #8. Fix one end on the back of the neck and pull it with a needle through the head to the point where the cheeks and the chin meet.
With two long stitches outline one cheek and then another.
Pull tightly and pull through the head to the front of the neck and fix. The muzzle will go down a little. Pull the needle through the neck to its back and fix with a little knot (do not tighten this time!)
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Pull the needle through the head to the point where one of the eyes will be and then through the nose to the point where the second eye will be (the photo on the right) pull to make a tightening, fix the yarn. Repeat the tightening for the nose a few more times. Pull the yarn from the point where one of the eyes will be through the head to the back of the neck, tighten tighten and fix. Pull it to the point where the second eye will be, tighten and fix. Hide the tail. It is better to fix the tightenings in different points on the neck. nec k. In this case small fixing knots will be more invisible and you will not get a big dint on the neck.
Also embroider the nose with the color you have chosen for it with long stitches from green point to the red points and to the points that are on the line between them (photo on the right). right). Make sure that tha t the green point is about 0.5 – 1 cm above the point where the chin finishes (blue point). You can embroider the nose before making the tightenings or after that.
Now it’s it’s time t ime to pin the eyes, choose the position that you like, like, embroider the t he black ovals and white point if you haven’t done it yet, sew the eyes and outline them with you dark yarn that you used to crochet the cat.
If want you can outline the mouse with thin light yarn – one stitch between green point and blue, two or three stitches outlining the bottom half of each cheek. 13
Tease the surface of the cat carefully with a velcro. Be very careful with the muzzle. Cut hears on the ears, muzzle and feet short. Tease the tail more more than the rest of the body. To make make the cat look tidier you can cut the points of all the hair. Now it it is time to embroi e mbroider der the dark strips str ips on the head. Do them with with your dark yarn with long stitches (about 3 – 5 cm). Some Some strips are wider, some are more narrow – make a few stitche stitchess on the same place to make the strip wider. The strips shouldn’t be very strait so don’t worry if they are a little crooked The strips start at a t the white edge of the head he ad and go closer closer to each ea ch other on the top of the head. They go apart again near the eyes. (the photos are below)
Tease the embroidered strips with a velcro but do it very carefully. That’s All! (с) 2012 mashutkalu You are always welcome to my etsy shop www.mashutkalu.etsy.com ! And to ma blog on http://mashutkalu.blogspot.com
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