Bunny Food! Felted Carrot
@OneLoopShy Designs Quick to make - fun to felt! Make a bunch of these little felted carrots to embellish your market bag or decorate your tabletop. This is a “guideline" more than a pattern. Play with the decreases and create each one with its own little personality. The finished carrot is stuffed with wool yarn, so it is easier to shape while damp.
Finished Size: 7" long
Yarn: #4 or #5 Felting Wool or Wool/ Alpaca blend. Model shows Cascade 220 Wool for the green and Elsebeth Lavold AL alpaca/wool for the orange Gauge: n/a Hook: size appropriate for chosen yarn Note: Carrot top is made in rows and then begun in the round after first row of orange is worked. Begin with chain 7. Leave yarn tail of several inches to sew closed after stuffing. Row 1: make 2 single crochets (sc) in second chain from hook and in each chain across - 12 sc. Chain 1. . . DO NOT TURN. . . row 2 will be worked back along the base of your starting chain (see photo on next page). Row 2: Slip stitch (sl st) in the first base chain (right under the last 2 sc made on row 1). Chain 8, sl st in 2nd chain from hook and in the next six chains, skip one chain on base chain, slip stitch in next chain (first little green carrot top made). Chain 11, sl st in 2nd chain from hook and in each chain back down to the base row (10 sl st), skip one chain on base row, sl st in next chain on base row. Chain 9, sl st back down to base row, sl st in last chain on base row. End off. Leave a yarn tail of several inches to close after stuffing. de still facing, attach orange yarn in first sc of row 1. Sc across (12 sc Your work should now look like the photo at left (like a little carrot jellyfish!).
Begin working in the round: keep right side facing and fold work together, sc in top of first sc of row 3 (first orange row) and begin working in the round. Sc in each stitch until your the orange rows measure approximately 1.5". Decrease to 10 stitches: sc 2 tog (decrease made), sc in next 6 stitches, then sc 2 tog. Continue on these 10 stitches for several more rounds - until the orange rows measure approx. 3". Decrease to 7 stitches: sc 2 tog (decrease made), sc in next 2 stitches, sc 2 tog, sc in next 2 st, sc 2 tog. Continue on these 7 stitches for several more rounds - until the orange rows measure approx. 4" Decrease to the tip: sc 2 tog, sc 1, sc 2 tog, sc 1 until you are down to 2 stitches. Put hook through top of both stitches and make a sc. Chain 3, then bind off and leave a yarn tail of two inches at the end. Stuff the carrot: Stuff the carrot loosely with several 6-8" lengths of your orange yarn. Sew the green top together with the yarn tails left, and stuff the ends of those back into the green top. Felt the carrot: The sample shown was felted in a front load washer on a long, hot cycle - in the company of a few pairs of jeans. You may need to run it through more than one cycle to felt it to the desired size. Shape while damp. I put a little “character" into mine by tugging a little crook into it. Because it is stuffed with wet wool and not fiberfill, it will hold that shape nicely and have a firmer feel to it - like solid felt. This is a free pattern and it can be shared. Please credit Janet Brani @ OneLoopShy Designs with any use of this pattern.Please do not sell items created from this pattern. Any suggestions, questions or corrections canbe posted to my blog at oneloopshy.blogspot.com or sent to oneloopshy@gmail.com. It is always a pleasure tohear from othercrocheters!!
