Fox - and - Dog Best Friend
Fox - and - Dog Best Friend
Fox - and - Dog Best Friend
APRIL 2023
My doll measures
about 30 cm (11.8
inches) (including hair).
MATERIALS
1. Yarn:
YarnArt Jeans yarn (50g/160m) of skin color (number 07) -
less than a half of a skein;
YarnArt Jeans yarn can be YarnArt Jeans yarn (50g/160m) of graphite color (number 28)
substituted with Alize - 1 skein (for shoes and cloak);
Cotton Gold of matching Gazzal Baby Cotton (50g/165m) of dark grey color (number
color and vice versa. But pay 3450) - less than a half of a skein (for trousers);
attention, that Alize is a bit
Cotton Gold yarn (100g/330m) of terracotta color (number
thinner (100g/330m) and it
can affect the toy size. 36) - less than a half of a skein (for hair);
YarnArt Jeans yarn (50g/160m) of white color (number 01) -
less than a half of a skein (for T-shirt, scarf and pawn);
YarnArt Jeans yarn (50g/160m) of maroon color (number 66) -
Pay attention that in case small amount (for necktie and scarf);
of using materials other YarnArt Jeans yarn (50g/160m) of light grey color (number
than listed, your toy size 49) - less than a half of a skein (for sweater);
will differ from mine. YarnArt Jeans yarn (50g/160m) of gold color (number 84) -
small amount (for scarf and sweater details);
Alize Cotton Gold yarn (100g/330m) of dark color (number
60) - less than a half of a skein (for pants and accessories);
Also the toy size depends Alize Cotton Gold yarn (100g/330m) of beige color (number
largely on the technique 499) - small amount (for chessboard).
you crochet single crochet 2. 10 mm safety eyes.
stitches (V-shaped sc, X- 3. Fiberfill (hollow fiber).
shaped sc, semi-X shaped 4. 2 mm crochet hook Clover (or 1.75 mm of any other brand).
sc). I give the information 5. 1.2 mm copper wire for frame.
about differences between 6. Needle, scissors, pins.
these methods in the next 7. Stitch marker.
page. 8. Masking tape or adhesive tape for wire frame.
9. Thick cardboard or plastic sheet for insoles.
10. 10 mm buttons for sweater of any color - 3 pc, and one 10
My stitches have semi-X mm button of black color for trousers.
shape. If you use the 11. Hard pastels for painting.
technique which creates “V
shaped” stitches, then your
doll would probably be
bigger.
The way you crochet
your stitches play an
V AND X SHAPED STITCHES
important role. My
Single crochet stitches can have a shape of “V” or “X”. The
stitches have a semi-X
shape. shape our stitches get depends on the way we grab the
working thread when crocheting.
When you work in “yarn
«V-shape (Yarn over technique)». This way is counted as a
over technique”, your
classic one. In this case we insert the hook into the stitch
crochet pattern becomes
(photo 1) and you place your hook under the yarn (photo 2).
more smooth, and the
And pull the yarn over the hook from back to front (photo
fabric will be more
3). Then pull the yarn in the same way (photo 4) and finish
stretchy. the stitch.
When you do “yarn under”, «X-shape (Yarn under technique)». In this case we insert
the fabric becomes more the hook into the stitch (photo 5) and place your hook over
relief and dense because of the yarn (photo 6). Pull the yarn through (photo 7). Then pull
twisting the loops. the yarn one more time in the same way (photo 8) and finish
the stitch.
Notes:
Analogically with the right leg. The right leg is the one
that is located on the right side towards the doll. If we
look to the doll’s face, it is located on the left side
towards you.
Happy crocheting!
INSTRUCTIONS
Let’s start making our cute wizard!
ARMS
Make two identical pieces. The arms are crocheted
separately and then joined as we crochet the body.
Don’t stuff. Crochet with the yarn of skin color in spiral
and use 2 mm crochet hook Clover (or 1.75 mm of any
other brand) - US 4.
Prepare the wire frame for the arms. Cut two pieces of
wire using wire cutters. The length of the pieces should
equal about 18 cm. Bend one of the wire ends, like in
the photo (photo 3), and wrap the wire across the
whole length (photo 4).
2.
3. 4.
LEGS
For the legs we need three colors: graphite color - for
shoes, black color - for socks and skin color - for legs.
1 round: inc, 6sc, 4sc into 1 stitch, along the other side of
the chain 6sc, inc (into the first stitch, where we have
already worked the first increase of the round) (20)
Place marker.
7. 4-5 rounds: crochet both rounds into back loops only 36sc
(36) - 2 rounds
8.
6 round: 36sc (36)
7 round: 8sc, (hdc dec, 2hdc)*2, 2hdc dec, (2hdc, hdc
How to work half double crochet dec)*2, 8sc (30)
decreases:
Yarn over, insert the crochet hook Advice: hold the tight tension when working
into front loop of the first stitch, hdc stitches! Otherwise there will be holes
pull the thread, yarn over again, formed between the stitches, and the
insert the crochet hook into the fiberfill will be seen through them.
front loop of the second stitch, pull
the thread, and then pull through all
stitches on the hook. Check for the marker location. It should be located
exactly in the middle of the back side on the foot.
Prepare the wire for the legs. Take a copper wire and
measure two pieces with the length of about 30 cm (the
doll’s size). These pieces will be placed into the feet, will
go across the whole length of the legs, across the body
and the neck, and a part of them will be located inside of
the doll’s head. Bend one end on both pieces forming a
loop (about 1 cm) (photo 3). Wrap about 11 cm of each
piece with a masking tape or with adhesive tape.
10.
This part will be located inside of the legs till the point where the wire pieces will be joined and
twisted inside of the body. Now bend one of the ends at the angle of 90 degrees (photo 10).
Stuff the leg as you go, adding fiberfill gradually. Insert the wire into the foot and crochet around
the frame.
13 round: 16sc (16)
14 round: inc, 15sc (17) - the increase should be located
exactly in the middle of the heel
15-17 rounds: 17sc (17) - 3 rounds
After this for the first leg fasten off the thread and cut.
Make the second leg (this is the right leg for our doll)
according to the same pattern.
13.
14. BODY
Now we will join the legs and crochet the body.
1 round: insert the hook into the next stitch after the
point we have finished on the right leg and crochet 17sc
around the first leg, 4sc along the chain, 9sc around the
second leg, place marker (30) - short round - the
beginning of a new round will be here now. We should
get 39 stitches around both legs and the chain.
Now let’s work with the wireframe. Bend the wire ends
from both legs towards each other at the right angles.
Then twist them around each other. Wrap the wire with a
masking tape or with adhesive tape.
16.
34 round: 6sc along the outer side of the first arm, 18sc
along the back side, 6sc along the outer side of the second
arm, 20sc along the front side of the body (50)
Now take the wire we have prepared for arms and insert the
19. pieces into both arms. Bend both wire ends towards each
other and then twist them around the main frame. Wrap the
part of the wireframe with a masking tape or adhesive tape
(the part which will be located inside of the neck).
36 round: 6sc, dec, 14sc, dec, 6sc, dec, 16sc, dec (46)
37 round: 6sc, dec, 12sc, dec, 6sc, dec, 14sc, dec (42)
38 round: (5sc, dec)*6 (36)
39 round: (2sc, dec)*9 (27)
40 round: (1sc, dec)*9 (18)
24. Work 2-3 additional sc till the middle of the neck side and
when working the last stitch change the thread color to
skin. Cut the white thread, leave a long thread tail (about 1
meter) outside of the body to make a collar.
25. Now bend the wire ends downwards and wrap them with a
masking tape or with adhesive tape.
Crochet the color clockwise. Make ch3 and crochet into free
front loops of stitches: (2dc, dc inc)*5, until we reach to the
26. second-to-last stitch. Don’t work dc into this stitch, make
ch3 and join with the second-to-last stitch with sl st. There
should be 2-3 free stitches left between two collar sides.
Fasten off the thread, weave in the thread tail inside of the
27. piece, cut the excess length.
..3 4..
33 round: (3sc, dec, 3sc)*6 (42)
34 round: (5sc, dec)*6 (36)
Start stuffing the head.
35 round: (2sc, dec, 2sc)*6 (30)
1..6
2 5 36 round: (3sc, dec)*6 (24)
37 round: (2sc, dec)*6 (18)
Cut the thread and fasten off, leaving a long thread tail for sewing.
Add fiberfill.
After this tie the thread tails with 1-2 tigh knots. Thread the
36.
needle with tails and weave them inside of the doll’s head.
Our needle sculpting is finished.
38. 39.
37.
FACE DETAILS
Embroider the nose using the thread of skin color: mark two
40. points between rounds 22 и 23 in the middle of the distance
between the eyes (photo 40), make several horizontal
stitches (photos 41-42). The nose width is 4 stitches. Don’t
hide the thread, we will use it to embroider the eyelids.
Take the white thread and make one stitch near each eye
around the outer part, like in photo 43. Fasten off the thread
and weave in inside of the head.
Embroider the upper eyelids with the thread which was left
41. after we finished the nose. Pull the thread near the eye as
close as possible in the middle, make a short stitch with the
length of 3-4 stitches, insert the needle, leaving 1 stitch from
the white part somewhere in the middle of the eye. The eyelid
should cover the top edge of the eye slightly and touch the
white stitches. Make one more stitch (photo 44).
You can make one more horizontal stitch above the eye using
45. the same thread to imitate the lower lid, the length of the
stitch equals 4 stitches (photo 46).
46.
47.
EARS
Now make ears and sew them to the doll’s head. Crochet in
skin color.
Fix the ears on the head at the eyes level, counting 6-7
stitched from them (photo 47). Sew. Weave in the thread tails
inside of the head.
49. HAIRSTYLE
Crochet in terracotta color in rounds. At first we need to make
a wig, then we will make curls on it.
54. 55.
56.
Turn the work, don’t make ch, skip sl st and crochet along the
hair strand in reverse direction.
2 row: 14sc, don’t crochet till the end and make ch6, turn (14 +
ch6)
3 row: from the 2nd ch from the hook 5sc along the chain, 14sc
along the hair strand, join with the back loop of the next stitch
on the hairline with sl st (20)
This way we started to crochet the hair strands along
57. the left side of the wig. Try on the head to understand
how it looks like. I fixed the wig on the head with pins
and was crocheting the hair without putting it off the
head. It helped me to understand where the hair
strands will be located.
The second hair strand
1 row: make ch25 and crochet from the second ch from the
hook 6sc, 2dec, 14sc, join with the back loop of the next
stitch on the hairline with sl st (23)
Try the wig on the head and pull the last hair strand towards
the ear. Make sure its length is enough to reach the lower
58. edge of the ear (photo 57).
Turn the work, don’t make ch, skip sl st and crochet along the
hair strand in reverse direction.
2 row: 16sc, sl st, make ch9, turn (17 + ch9)
3 row: from the 2nd ch work 8sc along the chain, skip sl st,
16sc, join with the back loop of the next stitch on the hairline
with sl st (25)
Turn the work, don’t make ch, skip sl st and crochet along the
hair strand in reverse direction.
4 row: 22sc, make ch3, turn (22 + ch3)
5 row: from the 2nd ch work 2sc along the chain, 22sc along
59. the hair strand, join with the back loop of the next stitch on
the hairline with sl st (25)
Turn the work, don’t make ch, skip sl st and crochet along the hair strand in reverse direction.
2 row: 21sc, sl st, make ch3 (22 + ch3)
3 row: from the 2nd ch from the hook 2sc along the chain, skip sl st, 21sc along the hair strand,
join with the back loop of the next stitch on the hairline with sl st (24)
Spread the hair strands on the wig surface. If they cover all
the piece, then cut the thread. If not, then make one-two hair
strands more according to the pattern of the last one.
After this the work at the wig is finished, cut the thread and
67. fasten off.
Try on the head, put the pins off the hair strands and at first
sew the wig to the head. Pay attention that there should be
15 rounds left between the upper edge of the wig and the
nose. Spread the wig on the head carefully and sew, inserting
the needle under the stitch on the head and under both loops
of the stitches on the wig.
Weave in all the thread tails inside of the head. The photos
69-71 the result we should get.
74.
75.
ASSEMBLY
All is left to do till our freckled boy is born is
to sew the head.
76.
Our wizard is ready! Now
we need to make school
clothes, the cloak and the
accessories for him!
TROUSERS
Use the yarn of dark grey color (Gazzal Baby Cotton). Make
ch59 and crochet from the second ch from the hook. At first
crochet several turning rows for button and buttonhole.
78. 5 row: 12sc, inc, 6sc, inc, 18sc, inc, 6sc, inc, 12sc, ch, turn
(62)
6-7 rows: 62sc, ch, turn (62) - 2 rows
8 row: 12sc, inc, 8sc, inc, 18sc, inc, 8sc, inc, 12sc, ch, turn
(66)
9-18 rows: 66sc, ch, turn (66) - 10 rows
19 row: 66sc, join the work in a circle with sl st into the ch
of the previous row, ch, turn (66)
20-22 rows: 66sc, join with the previous row working sl st
into turning ch, ch, turn (66) - 3 rows
80.
Try the trousers on the doll. If the leg is still short, then work a
couple of rows more.
Cut the thread and fasten off. Weave in the thread tail on the
wrong side of the piece.
Attach the thread to the point where the second leg should be
started, place the first leg on the right side, leave a thread tail
81. for sewing the hole (photo 86). Crochet the second leg in the
same way. If there is a hole left between the legs, then sew it.
8 row: 31sc along the second forepart, ch3, 31sc along the
first forepart (photo 92), ch, turn (62sts + ch3)
21 row: into front loops only 59 sl st, ch, turn (59) - when
93. crocheting the last stitch change the thread color to maroon,
cut the golden thread.
22 row: into front loops only 59sc, ch, turn (59) - when
crocheting the last stitch change the thread color to golden,
cut the maroon thread.
23 row: into both loops of stitches 59 sl st, ch, turn (59) -
when crocheting the last stitch change the thread color to
light grey, cut the golden thread.
24 row: into front loops only 59sc (59)
Theh crochet along the edge of the other forepart. Attach the
thread to the forepart bottom and crochet several turning rows
along the right side of the piece for the placket to sew the
buttons. Try the sweater on the doll to decide how many rows
you need to crochet for buttons, to fasten the sweater.
99. I worked 5 turning rows. Place the buttons on the placket and
sew them using the thread of light grey color. Make sure that
the buttons are located exactly opposite to the buttonholes. If
your yarn is too thick for the openings on the buttons, then
divide the strand in half.
Don’t cut the thread and crochet one row of slip stitches along
the neckline into back loops. Then cut the thread, fasten off
and weave in the thread tails on the wrong side of the sweater.
100. Now make sleeves. Attach the thread to the lower side on one
of the sleeve openings and crochet 19sc around: 3sc starting
from the middle of the lower side, 1sc into the corner, 11sc
along the top side, 1sc into the corner, 3sc along the lower side,
sl st into the first stitch. Make ch and turn the work.
102.
103. CLOAK
The cloak is crocheted in graphite color from top to
bottom. Make ch31, crochet from the second ch from the
hook
Sleeves
Attach the thread to the middle of the lower side on the
sleeve opening and make ch, then crochet 27sc around
the sleeve along the wrong side: 4sc starting from the
middle of the lower edge, 1sc into the corner, 16sc along
the top
edge, 1sc into the corner, 5sc along the bottom, sl st into
the first loop. Make ch and turn the work.
Fold the piece in half and sew along the longest side
(highlighted with an arrow in photo 109). Fasten off the
thread and weave in the thread tail on the wrong side of the
piece.
111.
112.
113. NECKTIE
Crochet in maroon color. Form MR and crochet from it: ch1
(photo 113), then crochet according to the pattern:
Make ch40 and crochet from the second ch from the hook
39sc, join with sl st with the free loop on the main piece.
115.
116.
SCARF
Crochet in maroon and golden color, use 2.5 mm
crochet hook. Start crocheting with the yarn of
maroon color.
121. Put the piece to the cardboard and draw an outline around
it, cut the circle. Trim about a couple of mm from the edge.
We will insert this piece into the pawn bottom.
Start stuffing.
122.
10 round: 16sc (16)
11 round: 8dec (8)
12-14 rounds: 8sc (8) - 3 rounds
15 round: skip ch, into back loops only (inc, 1sc)*4, sl st into
the turning ch (12)
Cut the thread and fasten off.
123.
Ball
1 round: 6sc in MR (6)
2 round: 6inc (12)
3-4 rounds: 12sc (12) - 2 rounds
Add some fiberfill.
5 round: 6dec (6)
Cut the thread and pull the opening closed, running the thread
124. through the front loops of stitches, leave the thread tail for
sewing.
Sew the ball to the main piece through the front back loops
carefully.
The Knight
Bottom
1 round: 8sc in MR (8)
2 round: 8inc (16)
3 round: (1sc, inc)*8 (24)
4 round: (1sc, inc, 1sc)*8 (32)
5 round: (3sc, inc)*8 (40)
Put the piece to the cardboard and draw an outline around it,
cut the circle. Trim about a couple of mm from the edge. We
will insert this piece into the bottom.
Start stuffing.
11 round: 8dec (8)
Cut the thread and fasten off. Pull the opening closed, pulling
the thread through the front loops of stitches using a needle,
weave in the thread tail inside of the piece (photo 125).
Main piece.
126. 1 round: 6sc in MR (6)
2 round: 6inc (12)
3 round: (1sc, inc)*6 (18)
4 round: 18sc (18)
Now divide the work into two parts. Make ch3 and skip 7
stitches, work 1sc into the 8th stitch and place marker. Now
we will crochet the Knight body around the larger circle
(photo 126).
127. 5 round: 10sc along the piece, 3sc along the chain, 1sc along
the piece (14)
Finish crocheting with sl st. Cut the thread, leaving a tail for
sewing.
1 round: 1sc, inc, 1sc, 1sc between the round, 7sc along the
upper edge, 1sc between the rounds (13)
129. 2 round: 13sc (13)
3 round: 1sc, 2inc, 1sc, 4dec, 1sc (11)
4 round: 5sc, dec, 2sc, dec (9)
5 round: 5sc, 2dec (7)
Cut the thread and fasten off. Pull the opening closed,
pulling the thread through the front loops of stitches using a
needle, weave in the thread tail inside of the piece. Stuff the
body slightly and sew the Knight to the bottom.
130.
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Th c hess
n o w h e n e e d s a
board!
131. CHESSBOARD
Start crocheting with the yarn of beige color. We will
crochet with two colors, alternating beige and black color.
Pay attention, that the first row is the right side row. All
the thread bars should stay only on the wrong side of the
piece.
Also very important: don’t pull the thread too tight, the
fabric shouldn’t be overtightened and distorted! You can pull
the piece edges from time to time to control the thread
tension.
Make ch25 and crochet from the second ch from the hook.
1 row: (3sc (Beige), 3sc (Black))*4, don’t change the color,
ch, turn (24)
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Виде
цвет нити»
When you will crochet the next row and each wrong side
row leave both threads in front of the work when changing
the color.
136.
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is finished!
137.
138. 139.
Congratulations! Our wizard is finished! He
is looking forward to
incredible adventures in the company of
best friends!✨
I hope you enjoyed making this wizard with me! ☺️I will be very grateful if you
leave me a feedback on Etsy. Please tag me @fox_and_dog as the designer of the
pattern when publishing photos of your wonderful dolls.
And there are my witch, her friend, the good elf, and a cute forester. You may
probably love them too✨
The free pattern for the Golden Snitch and for the
Broomstick can be found in the feed of my
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