Stevie The Sloth Free Pattern

 

Materials:

• Yarn
  • C1 Medium Brown chenille (Main Body)
  • C2 Cream chenille (Face)
  • C3 Dark Brown DK (Eye Patches)
  • C4 Red chenille (Strawberry)
  • C5 Green chenille (Stem)
  • C6 Yellow chenille (Seeds)
  • C7 Black DK (Face details)
• 4mm Hook
• 3.5mm Hook
• 18mm Safety eyes
• Darning Needle
• Stitch marker, scissors + stuffing

Notes

Abbreviations:

• mr - magic ring
• sc - single crochet
• hdc - half double crochet
• dc - double crochet
• SS - same stitch
• slst - slip stitch
• ch - chain
• fo - fasten off
• inc - increase
• dec - decrease
• CC - colour change to yarn #

Additional Notes:

• This pattern is written in US terms.
• You will need approximately 50g of medium brown yarn, 20g of cream yarn, and less than 5g of dark brown yarn.
• This pattern is super quick and should take less than an hour.

Arms

Starting in Cream C2 [Make 2].

1. R1 - 6sc in mr (6sc)
2. R2 - 6sc (6sc)
3. R3 - R11 (9 rows) - CC1, sc around (65c)

Do not stuff, close the arm making 3 sc through both sides. Cut the yarn, only leave a small yarn tail.

Legs

Starting in Cream C2 [Make 2].

1. R1 - 8sc in mr (8sc)
2. R2 - 8sc (8sc)
3. R3 - R12 (10 rows) - CC1, sc around (8sc)

Stuff the first half of the leg, close the legs making 4 sc through both sides. Cut the yarn, only leave a small yarn tail.

Eye Patch

Starting in your eye patch colour C3, change to a smaller hook for the DK yarn [Make 2].

1. R1 - 5sc in mr (5sc)
2. R2 - 7sc, slst into next sc

Leave long tail for attaching.

Body

Starting with Medium Brown C1.

1. R1 - 8sc in mr (8sc)
2. R2 - 8inc (16sc)
3. R3 - [1sc, inc] x 8 (24sc)
4. R4 - [3sc, inc] x 6 (30sc)
5. R5 - 5sc, 4sc, 12sc, 4sc, 5sc (30sc)
6. R6-R10 (5 rows) - sc around (30sc)
7. R11 - [3sc, dec] x 6 (24sc)
8. R12 - [1sc, dec] x 8 (16sc)
9. R13 - 4sc, 3sc, 5sc, 3sc, 15sc (16sc)

Stuff body.

1. R14 - 8dec (8sc)

*You may need to add in a sc or 2 to make your start point of the next row the centre of the head.

Body Continued

1. R15 - 2inc, CC2, 4inc, CC1, 2inc (16sc)
2. R16 - [1sc, inc] x2, CC2, [1sc, inc] x4, CC1, [1sc, inc] x2 (24sc)
3. R17 - [2sc, inc] x2, CC2, [2sc, inc] x4, CC1, [2sc, inc] x2 (32sc)
4. R18 - 2sc, CC2, 5sc, CC1, 10sc (32sc)

Before we start the decreases, we need to add the eye patches and safety eyes.

Once you have secured your patches, continue below.

1. R23 - [2sc, dec] x8 (24sc)
2. R24 - [1sc, dec] x8 (16sc)
3. R25 - 8dec (8sc)

Stuff head, fasten off and weave in your ends.

Attaching Eye Patches

The part of the eye patch where the 5dc's are will be facing each other on the face, with the R2 7sc pointing towards the top of the head. This means that one of your eye patches will be wrong side facing out.

Place safety eye through the stitch that the five dc's go into. The safety eyes need to be inserted on R19, place them on the 3rd sc on either side of the colour change. Pop the safety eye backs on (this will secure the patches onto the face), then using the long tail of the patch, sew around the edges attaching them to the face.

Strawberry Hat

Starting with your Strawberry colour C4.

1. Fasten off, weave in your ends.

Strawberry Stem

Starting with Stem colour C5.

1. R1 - 5sc in mr (5sc)
2. R2-R4 (3 rows) - sc around (5sc)
3. R5 - [ch4, sc in 2nd ch from hook, 2s down ch, sc in same base stitch, slst] repeat until you have 5 stems.

Fasten off, leave a long tail and use this to attach to the top of the hat.

Details

Use your seed colour to embroider little seeds over your strawberry hat. I did little V shapes.

Use C7 to embroider a nose between the eyes over two stitches and a little smile underneath.

To style the brim of the strawberry, you can either fold the row of dc's inward or outward.

Let the leg fall straight and sew the feet together; the fold of the legs should look like...