Materials
One ball of bright yellow, pink, cyan, orange, red, white and black worsted weight yarn. (most of the pictured toys are made in Caron? Simply Soft Brights) Size F crochet hook 2 medium black shank buttons 8 (2 for each ghost) small dark blue shank buttons yarn needle stitch marker scrap light weight cardboard fiberfil
Pac-Man
Note: Pac-Man looks like he is worked in rounds but is really 3 pieces worked in rows that are then sewn together.
Body
Rl: with yellow work 5sc in amigurumi double ring, ch1, turn. Crochetme.com has a great tutorial on the amigurumi double ring
http://www.crochetme.com/amigurumi-double-ring
R2-8: inc 5sc evenly spaced, ch1, turn R9-16: work even, ch1 turn R17-22: dec 5sc evenly spaced, ch1, turn R23: dec 5 sc evenly spaced, break yarn and with yarn needle sew the remaining 5 stitches together in a ring shape.
Top of mouth
R1: with black work 3sc in amigurumi double ring ch1, tum R2-7: inc 3sc evenly spaced, ch1, turn R8: inc 3sc evenly spaced, FO
Bottom of mouth
R1: with red work 3sc in amigurumi double ring ch1, turn R2-4: inc 3sc evenly spaced, ch1, turn R5-7: change to black, inc 3sc evenly spaced, ch1, turn R8: inc 3sc evenly spaced, FO
Finishing
Trace and cut out the shape of one of the mouth sides on cardboard 2 times. With whip stitch, sew the two flat edges of the mouth halves together. Line up the corner of the mouth halves with the corner in the yellow body. Sew bottom half of mouth along the edge of the body. Place cardboard cut out flat against the bottom of the mouth inside PacMan's body and stuff the bottom of the body so that it holds the cardboard flush against the bottom of the mouth. Sew on black button eyes as shown in picture. Stuff the rest of the body and place second cardboard cutout so that it will be flush with the where the top of the mouth will be. Then sew top of mouth to the body. Weave in ends.
Ghost
# Note: There are four Pac-Man ghost, for main color use pink, cyan, orange or red yarn. Ghosts are worked in spirals, place marker in first stitch of each row in order not to lose yourplace.
Points (make 6 per ghost)
R1: with main color work 3 sc in amigurumi double ring R2: work even (oh my god what a pain! But it makes α great point at the end) R3: 2sc in each sc R4: work even R5: 2sc in next 2sc, sc in next sc, 3sc in next 2 sc, sc in next sc R6: work even R7: sc, 2sc in next sc, sc in next 5 sc, 2sc in next 2sc, sc in next 3sc.
Sew stitches 6-10(from marker) to stitches 11-15 of next point to form a circle. Use yarn tails to stuff the points. Pack hard so the points do not bend.
Body
Rl1: in stitch 1 of one of the points join main color by pulling up a loop, sc around the outside edge of the points (36 stitches). R2-6: work even R7-1l1: dec 6 evenly stuffing as needed, FO
Eyes
R1: with white work 6sc in amigurumi double ring R2: 2sc in each st, FO Attach dark blue buttons off center. Sew eyes on ghost body as shown in picture. @ Copyright Carey Huffman under the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial- NoDerivs 2.5 License. Thank you to my wonderful testers funkyflower and 2twins from craftster.org
