July Monster of the Month
By Elaine Okupski
Penguin Place Crafts
I made this guy with Lion Brand Homespun yarn and an H hook.
He used 1.5 ounces of homespun, with a very small amount of red worsted weight
needed to embroider his mouth (You could also use black or pink. I felt that
red would show up best with this color Homespun). I used 12 mm safety eyes, but
you could go bigger.
As you can see, my samples are very different. The guy in the middle is the original, which is presented below as "body one"... then I made the red guy... while watching Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy, and with all the numbers being mentioned, I messed up my row counts and he ended up taller and skinnier. Putting the short, stubby legs on him made him look inappropriate, so I updated the legs and made them longer (so we have short stubby legs and longer legs in the pattern). And my tester Bonnie made another set of arms and added them for legs!
For the guy on the right, I changed up the rows to make him chubbier, more of a pear shape. That is body 2!
So you can mix and match the body and legs and get some very different looks from this pattern!
You start at the bottom and work up, adding the arms as you
go, then sew on the tail and legs and add the mohawk.
Body 1:
R1: 6 sc in MR (6)
R2: inc x 6 (12)
R3: *sc, inc* x 6 (18)
R4: *sc 2, inc* x 6 (24)
R5-7: sc (24)
R8: *sc 2, dec* x 6 (18)
R9-11: sc (18)
R12: *sc 4, dec* x 3 (15)
R13: sc (15)
R14: sc 4, (ch 20, starting in 2nd ch from hook, sc back – arm made), sc 7, make another arm, sc 4 (15)
R15-17: sc (15)
Place eyes (I used 12 mm) between rounds 16 & 17, with two stitches between. Sew a mouth 1-2 rows below the eyes, centered between them. Add stuffing to the head, and continue to stuff the body as you go.
R18: *sc 3, dec* x 3 (12)
R19: *sc 2, dec* x 3 (9)
R20: dec x 4, sc (5)
FO, leaving tail to close. Weave tail through FLO of the stitches of round 20 and pull closed. Weave in tail end.
Body 2:
R1: 6 sc in MR (6)
R2: inc x 6 (12)
R3: *sc, inc* x 6 (18)
R4: *sc 2, inc* x 6 (24)
R5: *sc 3, inc* x 6 (30)
R6-7: sc (30)
R8: *sc 3, dec* x 6 (24)
R9-10: sc (24)
R11: *sc 2, dec* x 6 (18)
R12: sc (18)
R13: *sc 4, dec* x 3 (15)
R14: sc (15)
R15: sc 4, (ch 20, starting in 2nd ch from hook, sc back – arm made), sc 7, make another arm, sc 4 (15)
R16-18: sc (15)
Place eyes (I used 12 mm) between rounds 16 & 17, with two stitches between. Sew a mouth 1-2 rows below the eyes, centered between them. Add stuffing to the head, and continue to stuff the body as you go.
R18: *sc 3, dec* x 3 (12)
R19: *sc 2, dec* x 3 (9)
R20: dec x 4, sc (5)
FO, leaving tail to close. Weave tail through FLO of the stitches of round 20 and pull closed. Weave in tail end.
Tail
R1: 6 sc in MR (6)
R2: sc (6)
R3: *sc, inc* x 3 (9)
R4: sc (9)
R5: *sc 2, inc* x 3 (12)
R6: sc (12)
R7: *sc 3, inc* x 3 (15)
R8: sc (15)
FO, leaving tail to sew to body.
Short Stubby Legs (make 2)
R1: 6 sc in MR (6)
R2: inc x 6 (12)
R3-4: sc (12)
FO, leaving tail to sew to body.
R1: 6 sc in MR (6)
R2: inc x 6 (12)
R3-4: sc (12)
R5: *sc 2, dec* x 3 (9)
R6-7: sc (9)
FO, leaving tail to sew to body.
Set your monster down on a flat surface and place the stuffed
tail on the back so that the bottom of tail lays flat on the surface. Pin in
place and sew. Set the monster back on the flat surface and pin the stuffed legs in
place on the front of the body, so they are also laying flat on the surface.
Sew them to the body. Mine had one stitch between them on the front of the
monster for my original monster with stubby legs, but I put the long skinny legs about 6 stitches apart.
Cut 15-20
strands of yarn about 5” long. Loop the strands from the back of the head (at
round 19) to the tip of the tail. Brush them out to give your monster a nice
fuzzy mohawk. Trim as needed.
I hope you enjoyed making your Monster of the Month!
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