OZ BATH BUDDIES
Two different options to make with an unusual material and just two colors!! Nylon Craft Ribbon is a good material to use in the shower because it dries quickly, but jute or other natural fiber, or even a polyester yarn are good options to create these cute buddies for the bath time:
ECHIDNA
Or stuff it with filling material and use it as a toy everywhere else!!
@ 2013 Rosaura Valdez. This is a free pattern that cannot be sold or reproduced. If you want to share it, please link people to my Ravelry store. The items generated with the use of this pattern could be for personal or commercial use. In case that you want to make them for selling, please give the proper credit to the designer.
OZBATHBUDDIES
MATERIALSIUSED:
1 roll of Brown Nylon Craft Ribbon (90m x 25mm), sufficient for two Echidnas + a little of Beige Nylon Craft Ribbon. Crochet hook 3.5mm. Yarn needle and Scissors.
ABBREVIATIONS
Ch: chain/chains St/sts: stitch/stitches dc: double crochet inc: increase htc: half treble crochet slst: slip stitch
SPECIALSTITCHESandNOTES
There are several ways to make the Loop stitch. If you find these instructions difficult to understand, you can find some tutorials on the web that may help. 1. Use your index finger to give the loop length required. Insert hook in next stitch and pass it under the right side of the loop, take the hook over the same part of the loop, and grab the left side of the loop. 2. Draw both threads of the loop through the stitch (you have now 3 loops on hook). 3. Release the created loop, yarn over, and draw yarn trough the 3 loops on your hook. -Repeat these three steps to make the number of loops required.--
ECHIDNA
Head
Only the 1st round needs to be closed. The rest are worked in spiral. Using Beige Ribbon... Ch 2 (or inside a magic ring) 1: 5dc. (5sts) 2: In the back loops only: 5dc. (5sts) 3-5: 1dc on each st around. (5sts) 6: 1dc, 3inc, 1dc. (8sts) 7: 2dc, 4inc, 2dc. (12sts) 8: 3dc, (inc, 1dc)3 times, 3dc. (15sts) 9: 4dc, (inc, 1dc)3 times, inc, 4dc. (19sts) 10: 5dc, (inc, 1dc)5 times, inc, 3dc. (25sts) 11: 1dc on each st around. (25sts) Cut Beige Ribbon. With Brown Ribbon, embroider the nostrils and eyes (Fig 1).
Body
Turn the head inside out to make the spikes (the loops will be hidden until you turn the work to the wright side, Fig. 2). Make this part closing each round with a slst, and starting the next round with a chain. Join the Brown Ribbon to the last stitch of the head... 1: 3dc, 16 loop sts of approx. 3.5cm long (see Special Stitches and Notes), 6dc. (25sts)
2: 1dc on each st around. (25sts) 3-14: Repeat rounds 1 and 2 of body 6 more times. (25sts) 15: Repeat round 1 of body. (25 sts) 16: Ch 2, 1htc on each st around. (25sts) Close the round with a slst. Cut Brown Ribbon and turn the work to the wright side.
Cord
Make 50ch and go back to the beginning with a slst on each chain. Wave the cord in the last round of body and join the two ends with a knot.
