Mr. Rainbow
Mr. Rainbow is a little softie rainbow with cute crochet eyes, designed to brighten up the day of someone special! He is approximately 10 cm wide and 6 cm high. The pattern is worked flat and sewn up to assemble.
Yarn
Scrap amounts of dk weight yarn in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, dark blue, purple and white. Needles:3mm Hook:4mm Other: Fibre fill toy stuffing, 2 plastic safety eyes for toys (black) Copyright Ellen Kapusniak 2012 For my hand-knitted gift shop, more knitting patterns and knitting blog please visit: www.knittipoliti.com Abbreviations used p2tog - purl two together k2tog - knit two together dc - double crochet (US) Gauge is not important for this design, if you want to make Mr. Rainbow bigger or smaller by using a different weight of yarn, use one needle size smaller than the recommended size for the yarn.
Body (make 2)
Using 3 mm needles, cast on 39 sts in red Row 1: knit Row 2: purl Change to orange Row 3: knit Row 4: purl Change to yellow Row 5: knit Row 6: purl Change to green Row 7: knit Row 8: \*p1, p2tog\* to end (26 sts) Change to blue Row 9: knit Row 10: purl Change to dark blue Row 11: knit Row 12: purl Change to purple Row 13: k2tog to end (14 sts) Row 14: purl Bind off Eyes Using 4mm crochet hook and white yarn, chain 2, make 6 dc all into the farthest away loop, bind off. Position eyes onto one half of the rainbow, put the black safety eyes through the holes in the eyes and through the knitting and fasten them on. Copyright ? Ellen Kapusniak 2012 For my hand-knitted gift shop, more knitting patterns and knitting blog please visit: www.knittipoliti.com If you do not want to crochet you can use circles of white felt instead, making a small hole in the middle for the stalk of the safety eye to pass through.
Making up
You can weave in the ends if you want to or just pop them inside as yousewup. With right sides facing each other sew up the two halves of the rainbow at the top of the arch (the red part) and at the feet of the arch, leaving the small arch at the bottom open. Turn right side out. Stuff with fibrefill, sew up the bottom arch.
