Pattern “Little frog”

(the pattern by Julia Ka)

If you have any problems with this pattern, please don’t hesitate to e-mail me:
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 Material and tools:
⁃ Yarn 100% cotton for crocheting a frog. (I used PaintBox Yarns Cotton DK 125 m, 50 g: Lime Green (629),Paper
White (601), small amount of Pillar Red (615) and Spearmint Green (626));
⁃ A hook 2.0 mm (I used Clover);
⁃ Stuffing (hollow fiber);
⁃ Safety eyes or black beads 6 mm in diameter;
⁃ A needle with a big eye;
⁃ Sewing pins.

Note:
Used stitches:
The toy must be crocheted with tight stitches, to be sure that there ch- chain;
won't be any holes through which stuffing material can be seen, if sc- single crochet;
there are tiny holes, use a smaller size hook. dc - double crochet;
Frog’s size is approximately 7 cm ( 2.7 in), if you use the same puff stitch - crochet 4 dc in the same stitch and then join
material that I used. them together to finish the stitch;
sl.st. - slip stitch;
sc inc - increase;
sc dec - decrease;
(sc, inc)*n - repeat those in brackets n-times.

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Belly.
With white yarn. Use a hook 2.0 mm.
The belly is crocheted in a spiral.
1 row: 6 sc in magic ring (6)
2 row: 2 sc in each sc (12)
3 row: (1 sc, sc inc)* 6 (18)
4 row: (2 sc, sc inc)* 6 (24)
5 row: (3 sc, sc inc)* 6 (30)
6 row: (4 sc, sc inc)* 6 (36)
7 row: (5 sc, sc inc)* 6 (42) 1
8 row: (6 sc, sc inc)* 6 (48)
9 row: (7 sc, sc inc)* 6 (54)
10 row: (8 sc, sc inc)* 6, sl.st (60)
Tie off the thread and cut it (pic. 1).

Back.
With green yarn. Use a hook 2.0 mm. The back is crocheted in a
spiral.
1 row: 6 sc in magic ring (6)
2 row: 2 sc in each sc (12)
3 row: (1 sc, sc inc)* 6 (18)
4 row: (2 sc, sc inc)* 6 (24) 2 3
5 row: (3 sc, sc inc)* 6 (30)
6 row: (4 sc, sc inc)* 6 (36)
7 row: (5 sc, sc inc)* 6 (42)
8 row: (6 sc, sc inc)* 6 (48)
9 rows: 48 sc (48)
10 row: (7 sc, sc inc)* 6 (54)
11 rows: 54 sc (54)
12 row: (8 sc, sc inc)* 6 (60)
13-14 rows: 2 rows - 60 sc (60) (pic. 2)
Don’t cut the work thread.
Join the belly and the back together: put the wrong sides of the
pieces to each other, insert the crochet hook through the loops of the
both pieces (pic. 3) and crochet sc. Work sc around the edge (pic. 4). 4 5
Stuff the body as you go round. (pic. 5).
Finish with sl.st. Tie off the thread and hide it inside. (pic. 6, 7) 3
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Eyes. 2 pcs
With white yarn. Use a hook 2.0 mm.
The eyes is crocheted in a spiral.
1 row: 6 sc in magic ring (6)
Close the magic ring, but not too tight that you can insert
the safety eyes easily.
2 row: 2 sc in each sc (12)
3 row: (3 sc, sc inc)* 3 (15) 8 9
4-5 rows: 2 rows - 15 sc (15)
Insert the safety eyes into the middle of the magic ring
(pic. 8, 9)
6 row: (3 sc, sc dec)* 3 (12)
Stuff the eye (pic. 10).
7 row: 6 sc dec (6)
Finish with sl.st.
Tie off the thread and leave enough for sewing. (pic. 11)

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Eyelids. 2 pcs
With green yarn. Use a hook 2.0 mm.
The eyelids are crocheted in a spiral.
1 row: 6 sc in magic ring (6)
2 row: 2 sc in each sc (12)
3 row: (1 sc, sc inc) *6 (18)
4-6 rows: 3 rows - 18 sc (18)
Finish with sl.st.
Tie off and leave enough thread for sewing (pic. 12, 13).
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Paws. 4 pcs
With green yarn. Use a hook 2.0 mm.
1 row: 2 ch, 12 dc in magic ring, sl.st. (12) (pic. 14-16)
2 row: 4 sl.st., (6 ch., puff stitch in the 3th loop from the
hook and 1 sc in the 4th, 5th and 6th loops from the
hook, 1 sl.st. in the next loop of the first row) * repeat
this pattern two more times, 4 sl.st. (pic. 17- 22)
Tie off the thread and leave enough for sewing.

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Tongue.
With red yarn. Use a hook 2.0 mm.
Crochet 4 ch
1 row: start in the second loop from the hook (pic. 23) and crochet 2 sc,
3 sc in last ch, don’t turn the work and crochet continuously in circle
direction,1 sc, 1 sc inc (8) (pic. 24)
Finish with sl.st.
Tie off the thread and leave enough for sewing.

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 Assembly.
- Place the eyes into the eyelids and sew them. (pic. 25-28)
Tie off the white yarn in the bottom of the eye. (pic. 29, 30).

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⁃ Sew the eyes onto the head/body between the 4th and 8th rows (pic. 32-38).

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⁃ Sew the front paws onto the bottom of the frog symmetrically to the muzzle. (pic. 39-44).

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⁃ Sew the back paws onto the bottom of the frog (pic. 47-50). The back paws should be placed as on the pictures 45,
46.

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⁃ Sew the tongue onto the muzzle (pic. 51, 52)

- Embroider french knots on the back of the frog using the dark green
yarn (pic. 53-55).
Note: Also you can use green beads for decorating. 51 52

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Congratulations! Your little frog is ready!

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