Head
With brown yarn:
- 1: mr, sc 6 (6)
- 2: inc x 6 (12)
- 3: (sc, inc) x 6 (18)
- 4: (inc, sc 2) x 6 (24)
- 5: (sc 3, inc) x 6 (30)
- 6: sc 6, inc, sc 14, inc, sc 8 (32)
- 7-8: sc in each st (32)
- 9: (sc 7, inc) x 4 (36)
On round 10 place a stitch marker around the 17th stitch to mark the center of the face. Use it as a guide when placing the eyes.
- 10-12: sc in each st (36)
- Attach safety eyes to either side of the stitch marker, between rounds 10 and 11, leaving 7 stitches (count 6 holes) between them.
- 13: sc, dec, (sc 4, dec) x 5, sc 3 (30)
- Start stuffing the head. Keep adding a bit of fiberfill after every few rounds, stuffing the head firmly.
- 14: (sc 3, dec) x 6 (24)
- 15: (dec, sc 2) x 6 (18)
- 16: (dec x 3, sc) x 2, dec x 2 (10)
- Sl st in next stitch. Cut the yarn, leaving a long yarn tail for sewing, and fasten off. Finish stuffing the head.
Muzzle
With white yarn:
- 1: mr, sc 6 (6)
- 2: inc x 6 (12)
- 3: sc in each stitch (12)
Sl st in next stitch. Cut the yarn, leaving a long yarn tail for sewing, and fasten off. Stuff the muzzle firmly.
Sew the muzzle to the head with whip stitch, placing it just below round 9.
Use yarn to indent the eyes a little.
Embroider the nose with cotton embroidery floss.
Ears
With brown yarn:
- 1: mr, sc 8 (8)
- 2-3: sc in each stitch (8)
Sl st in next stitch. Cut the yarn, leaving a long yarn tail for sewing, and fasten off. Do not stuff the ears.
Flatten the ears. Sew the ears to the head, placing them just below round 4.
Body
Legs and body are crocheted in one piece. Start by making the two legs first.
With brown yarn:
- 1: mr, sc 6 (6)
- 2: (inc, sc) x 3 (9)
From here on the right and left leg are crocheted differently.
RIGHT LEG
- 3: sc 3, dec, sc 4 (8)
- 4: sc in each stitch (8)
- Sl st in next stitch. Cut the yarn and fasten off. Stuff the leg firmly.
LEFT LEG
- 3: sc 4, dec, sc 3 (8)
- 4: sc in each stitch (8)
- Do not fasten off, leave the working yarn attached to the left leg. Stuff the leg firmly.
BODY
Join the two legs with a chain on the first round of the body. Then continue crocheting the body around the legs and the chain between them.
- 1: Take the left leg and ch 2, take the right leg and continue around it, starting in the next stitch after the sl st: sc 8, sc in next stitch (the stitch where you made the first sc after the chain, total of 2 sc-s in this stitch), sc 2 (into chain), sc in the stitch where you made the last sc before the chain (total of 2 sc-s in this stitch), continue around the left leg: sc 8
- Now you should have 22 stitches – 9 sc-s on either leg + 2 sc-s on one side of chain + 2 ch-s.
- 2: sc, inc, sc 4, dec, sc 4, inc, sc 4, dec, sc 3 (22)
- 3-6: sc in each stitch (22)
- Sc in next 12 stitches. Count the last sc as the end of the round from now on.
- 7: (dec, sc 4, dec, sc 3) x 2 (18)
- Start stuffing the body. Keep adding a bit of fiberfill after every few rounds, stuffing the body firmly.
- 8: sc in each stitch (18)
- 9: (sc 2, dec, sc 3, dec) x 2 (14)
- 10: sc in each stitch (14)
- 11: (dec, sc 2, dec, sc) x 2 (10)
- Sl st in next stitch. Cut the yarn and fasten off. Finish stuffing the body.
Arms
With brown yarn:
- 1: mr, sc 6 (6)
- 2-3: sc in each stitch (6)
Stuff the hands firmly. Keep adding a bit of fiberfill after every few rounds, stuffing the arms lightly about half way up.
- 4-7: sc in each stitch (6)
- 8: sc 3, flatten the top and sc through both layers (3)
Cut the yarn, leaving a long yarn tail for sewing, and fasten off.
Sew the arms to the sides of the body, one row below the head.